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296 MR. BUCHANAN’S IMPORTATIONS.—France.
his Leonardo da Vinci manner, and very highly
finished.
This fine portrait is now in the possession of
Edward Gray, Esq., and, so far as it goes, may be
considered as one of the most genuine and precious
examples of that master in this country.
A capital picture, by Gerard Dow, representing
a Hermit at Devotion, was some time afterwards
sent to England by the same person. It was for-
merly in the possession of Randon de Boisset, and
is now in that of Alexander Baring, Esq. This
picture has always been valued at 1000 guineas.
Mr. Buchanan had long an eye upon the col-
lection of Malmaison, belonging to the Empress
Josephine, which he knew, from friends residing
in the French capital, might be procured, provided
a certain sum in ready money could be found to
purchase the same. The affair of the fine pictures,
however, sent over by Mr. Wallis, and of others
which might at that time have been procured, had
damped very much his ardour for acquisitions of
a class which could only be obtained for large
sums of money; and, in the interim, political
events occurred which put the attainment of that
collection, in the regular train of purchase, entirely
out of the question. There wras indeed a moment,
after the entering of the Allied Troops into Paris,
when the same might have been obtained on very
his Leonardo da Vinci manner, and very highly
finished.
This fine portrait is now in the possession of
Edward Gray, Esq., and, so far as it goes, may be
considered as one of the most genuine and precious
examples of that master in this country.
A capital picture, by Gerard Dow, representing
a Hermit at Devotion, was some time afterwards
sent to England by the same person. It was for-
merly in the possession of Randon de Boisset, and
is now in that of Alexander Baring, Esq. This
picture has always been valued at 1000 guineas.
Mr. Buchanan had long an eye upon the col-
lection of Malmaison, belonging to the Empress
Josephine, which he knew, from friends residing
in the French capital, might be procured, provided
a certain sum in ready money could be found to
purchase the same. The affair of the fine pictures,
however, sent over by Mr. Wallis, and of others
which might at that time have been procured, had
damped very much his ardour for acquisitions of
a class which could only be obtained for large
sums of money; and, in the interim, political
events occurred which put the attainment of that
collection, in the regular train of purchase, entirely
out of the question. There wras indeed a moment,
after the entering of the Allied Troops into Paris,
when the same might have been obtained on very