Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 1) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

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these illustrious characters have been engraved by
Sharp from these two pictures.
England possesses many capital works by Van-
dyck—hardly any collection of consequence is
without one. Among those which are eminently
fine, besides the three particularly above remarked,
may be cited the portrait of the Ablff Scaglier, a
full-length, in the possession of Sir Thomas Ba-
ring, Bart, and a half-length of Queen Henrietta
Maria painted in his most delicate manner, which
is in the possession of Alexander Gordon, Esq. of
Edinburgh. The Marquis of Stafford possesses
a beautiful picture of the Virgin and Child by
Vandyck ; and the Countess de Grey has also many
fine pictures of this master.—The pictures by
Vandyck at Warwick Castle are well known to
every lover of art.
One of the finest pictures of this master is a
gentleman standing at full length, accompanied by
a dog, which is in the possession of the family of
Van Steers at Antwerp, to whom the Chapeau de
Paille by Rubens formerly belonged. Mr. Bu-
chanan offered Mr. Van Steers a large sum for
this portrait of Vandyck, but could not obtain it.
It may now probably, however, be attained from
the family of Van Havre, owing to the death of the
old Baron Steers.