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THE QUEEN’S GALLERY.
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in the means he employs, but has chosen a higher and more imagi-
native class of subjects.]
3 Franciscan Friars—at Morning Service in the choir I
of their Church. The most consummate knowledge of
aerial perspective, combined with much character in the
treatment of the heads, and much solemnity and dignity
in the composition, render this picture one of the most
striking and valuable works of the painter. It is, however,
too monotonous and cold in colour, and in the tricky and
illusive effect like scene-painting.
Painted for George IV. C. 6 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. 10.
LE NAIN (Antoine and Louis).
[Two brothers, natives of Laon, in France, painters of scenes of low
and familiar life; they passed their lives together, and painted always
in concert, so that it has become impossible to distinguish them in
their works. Much more allied to the Dutch than the French school,
in the choice of their subjects, and the unaffected feeling for truth
and nature in the manner of treating them, they have yet the
merit of being perfectly original in their way, for they preceded the
eminent Dutch genre painters of the seventeenth century; dying at
an advanced age, and within two days of each other, 1648.]
4 The Young Gamblers.'—From the Aldobrandini 1
Palace, according to Mr. Seguier; but it seems strange.
1 ft. 9 in. by 2 ft.
TITIAN (Tiziano Vecelli), b. 1477 ; d. 1576.
5 A rich, wooded Landscape.—A Herdsman with a 1
flock of sheep. This must formerly have been a beautiful
picture, but has turned very dark, and has suffered much.
Upright 3 ft. 9 in. by 3 ft. 2 in.
VENUSTI (Marcello), b. at Mantua, 1515 ; d. 1576.
[This painter, who produced no original work of any great value or
celebrity, is remarkable for the extreme beauty of his small pictures
from the designs of Michael Angelo, whose grand cartoons he re-
duced, and gave them all the attraction of colour and delicate
execution. The specimen here is an example.]
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in the means he employs, but has chosen a higher and more imagi-
native class of subjects.]
3 Franciscan Friars—at Morning Service in the choir I
of their Church. The most consummate knowledge of
aerial perspective, combined with much character in the
treatment of the heads, and much solemnity and dignity
in the composition, render this picture one of the most
striking and valuable works of the painter. It is, however,
too monotonous and cold in colour, and in the tricky and
illusive effect like scene-painting.
Painted for George IV. C. 6 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. 10.
LE NAIN (Antoine and Louis).
[Two brothers, natives of Laon, in France, painters of scenes of low
and familiar life; they passed their lives together, and painted always
in concert, so that it has become impossible to distinguish them in
their works. Much more allied to the Dutch than the French school,
in the choice of their subjects, and the unaffected feeling for truth
and nature in the manner of treating them, they have yet the
merit of being perfectly original in their way, for they preceded the
eminent Dutch genre painters of the seventeenth century; dying at
an advanced age, and within two days of each other, 1648.]
4 The Young Gamblers.'—From the Aldobrandini 1
Palace, according to Mr. Seguier; but it seems strange.
1 ft. 9 in. by 2 ft.
TITIAN (Tiziano Vecelli), b. 1477 ; d. 1576.
5 A rich, wooded Landscape.—A Herdsman with a 1
flock of sheep. This must formerly have been a beautiful
picture, but has turned very dark, and has suffered much.
Upright 3 ft. 9 in. by 3 ft. 2 in.
VENUSTI (Marcello), b. at Mantua, 1515 ; d. 1576.
[This painter, who produced no original work of any great value or
celebrity, is remarkable for the extreme beauty of his small pictures
from the designs of Michael Angelo, whose grand cartoons he re-
duced, and gave them all the attraction of colour and delicate
execution. The specimen here is an example.]