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 2) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

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ROBIT’S COLLECTION.

2. Albano—painted on copper—14 i inches
high by 18^- broad.
Another picture in a more severe style but still
graceful, representing the Virgin holding the sleep-
ing Infant Jesus ; behind this group are two angels,
one of them with clasped hands in token of ad-
miration. No. 83 of Bryan’s catalogue. George
Hibbert, Esq.
8. Nicholas Berghem—painted on canvas
—31 inches by 25.
A rich landscape representing a mountainous
and rugged country, in the centre of which is a
lake that falls in a cascade over picturesque rocks.
The foreground is enriched with all the attributes
to such a scene, in which a number of villagers
and cattle of various kinds are seen, and, among
these, a woman standing near a cow, giving orders
to a young man who is sitting down by a copper
milk-can. The works of Berghem rank high
among the Dutch masters. A flowing spirited
touch, with a transparency of colouring, are among
the charms which his pictures disclose to the con-
noisseur.
The celebrity of the above picture is authenti-
cated in the life of the master, and in the descrip-
tion of the magnificent cabinet de Presle, where it