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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From Munich Mr. Buchanan returned to Paris
by Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgard, and Strasburg;
and when there he made several acquisitions of
such works as could nowhere be procured in Ger-
many ; among which was a celebrated picture
known by the name of T Epicure, formerly in the
Choiseul gallery, which was afterwards purchased
for the collection of His Royal Highness the Prince
Regent, and is now at Carlton palace.
The following year, Monsieur Aynard of Paris,
having communicated to Mr. Buchanan his wish
of disposing of the fine collection of pictures which
he had formed (at that time certainly the finest
private collection in France), and for which he
demanded 800,000 francs, furnished him with a
catalogue and estimate thereof, to be transmitted
to Sir Charles Long, for the purpose of being
submitted to His Royal Highness the Prince Re-
gent, with the view of enabling His Royal High-
ness to make an acquisition which might probably
be deemed of importance to his collection. His
Royal Highness, however, having found the list
too general, and only desiring to possess certain
works which the collection at Carlton House
actually wanted, declined the offer of it in the
aggregate. Monsieur Aynard afterwards ob-
tained from Mr. Buchanan a note of what pic-
tures were most likely to find purchasers in
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