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ORLEANS COLLECTION.
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guineas. The late Sir Francis Baring was like-
wise an early visitor, and named a certain number
of those pictures which were marked for sale, as
objects which would suit his taste. The price
demanded was 10,000 guineas; the offer made
was 10,000/. Mr. Bryan had no power to di-
minish. The worthy Baronet would not advance,
and the treaty was not concluded. This anecdote,
which the author of these sketches had from Mr.
Bryan himself, not only proves the off-handed
decision, and liberality, which always mark the
character of a British merchant, but the intrinsic
value which was attached to the collection itself,
the proprietors not admitting of the principle of
naming a price, greater, than would actually be
taken.
Lord Berwick, the Viscount Fitz william, the
Earl Temple, Mr. Maitland, Mr. Hope, and Mr.
Hibbert, were all early, and considerable pur-
chasers from this collection, as were likewise the
late Mr. Willett, the Earl of Darnley, the Earl of
Suffolk, Mr. T. Hope, Mr. Troward, Mr. W.
Smith, the Baroness Lady Lucas, now Countess
De Grey, Mr. Udney, Mr. Long, Sir A. Hume,
Mr. Fitzhugh, &c. &c. &c. This list sufficiently
proves the great and general interest which this
collection had raised in England ; and at the same
time disproves the assertion which foreigners had
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guineas. The late Sir Francis Baring was like-
wise an early visitor, and named a certain number
of those pictures which were marked for sale, as
objects which would suit his taste. The price
demanded was 10,000 guineas; the offer made
was 10,000/. Mr. Bryan had no power to di-
minish. The worthy Baronet would not advance,
and the treaty was not concluded. This anecdote,
which the author of these sketches had from Mr.
Bryan himself, not only proves the off-handed
decision, and liberality, which always mark the
character of a British merchant, but the intrinsic
value which was attached to the collection itself,
the proprietors not admitting of the principle of
naming a price, greater, than would actually be
taken.
Lord Berwick, the Viscount Fitz william, the
Earl Temple, Mr. Maitland, Mr. Hope, and Mr.
Hibbert, were all early, and considerable pur-
chasers from this collection, as were likewise the
late Mr. Willett, the Earl of Darnley, the Earl of
Suffolk, Mr. T. Hope, Mr. Troward, Mr. W.
Smith, the Baroness Lady Lucas, now Countess
De Grey, Mr. Udney, Mr. Long, Sir A. Hume,
Mr. Fitzhugh, &c. &c. &c. This list sufficiently
proves the great and general interest which this
collection had raised in England ; and at the same
time disproves the assertion which foreigners had