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)

373

two capital pictures by Wouvermans, were after-
wards purchased by G. Lucy, Esq . M. P. A
fine Landscape and a Temptation of St. Anthony,
by David Teniers, were sold to the Right Ho-
nourable R. Peel; while the others passed into
collections of which the author of this work is
not informed.
Since the purchase of this last collection of the
Comte Morel de Vind6, Mr. Buchanan has had
nothing to do with affairs of art; unless where
he has been occasionally consulted, from his
general information on these subjects, by those
who are forming collections of this description
for their own amusement. He was indeed in
hopes that the important affair regarding the col-
lection of Murillos belonging to the Marechai Soult,
which he long ago communicated to His Majesty’s
Government, would have been favourably ter-
minated before this time, in whole or in part,
as being one of much importance to the school of
art in this country. No works of similar im-
portance can any longer be acquired on the conti-
nent of Europe; while these objects themselves
would not only add consequence to a national
establishment, but are, as has been often remarked
of them, capable of forming an entire reformation
in the art of painting.