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the queen’s gallery. 73
collection. Charles I. had a miniature copy of it by Hos-
kins, which Walpole says he had seen in the possession of
the Duchess of Somerset.
DAWE (George, R.A.)
208 The Princess Charlotte of Wales.—Died 1818.
Full length.
WILKIE (Sir David), b. 1785 ; d. 1841.
209 The Duke of Sussex—in the Highland costume.
Full length.
Another portion of the private collection of the Queen,
to which visitors are occasionally admitted, is arranged in
the grand corridor in Windsor Castle which runs round two
sides of the quadrangle, and opens into the private apart-
ments of the sovereign; it is therefore very properly closed
against all intrusion, and only in the absence of her Majesty
may be visited by an especial ticket of admission from the
Lord Chamberlain. George IV. placed here a selection of
pictures chiefly of domestic interest, as hunting scenes and
reviews, in which are introduced different members of the
Brunswick family; some portraits of his personal friends,
chiefly by Reynolds and Lawrence, and a few of noted
historical personages. But the great ornament of this gal-
lery is the collection of the works of Canaletto, purchased
by George III. from Mr. Joseph Smith, English Consul at
Venice in the preceding reign. Antonio Canale, or as he
styled himself, Il Canaletto, was the son of a poor Venetian
scene painter. From his father he obtained his intimate
knowledge of perspective; his feeling for aerial effect and
picturesque treatment of his subjects, he owed to his studies
at Rome. Smith found him in poverty, and engaged him
to paint for him for a certain term of years, at a very low
salary, and sold his pictures at a high price to the English
who visited Venice: the best he kept for himself; and
the collection thus formed, with many pictures by Zucca-
collection. Charles I. had a miniature copy of it by Hos-
kins, which Walpole says he had seen in the possession of
the Duchess of Somerset.
DAWE (George, R.A.)
208 The Princess Charlotte of Wales.—Died 1818.
Full length.
WILKIE (Sir David), b. 1785 ; d. 1841.
209 The Duke of Sussex—in the Highland costume.
Full length.
Another portion of the private collection of the Queen,
to which visitors are occasionally admitted, is arranged in
the grand corridor in Windsor Castle which runs round two
sides of the quadrangle, and opens into the private apart-
ments of the sovereign; it is therefore very properly closed
against all intrusion, and only in the absence of her Majesty
may be visited by an especial ticket of admission from the
Lord Chamberlain. George IV. placed here a selection of
pictures chiefly of domestic interest, as hunting scenes and
reviews, in which are introduced different members of the
Brunswick family; some portraits of his personal friends,
chiefly by Reynolds and Lawrence, and a few of noted
historical personages. But the great ornament of this gal-
lery is the collection of the works of Canaletto, purchased
by George III. from Mr. Joseph Smith, English Consul at
Venice in the preceding reign. Antonio Canale, or as he
styled himself, Il Canaletto, was the son of a poor Venetian
scene painter. From his father he obtained his intimate
knowledge of perspective; his feeling for aerial effect and
picturesque treatment of his subjects, he owed to his studies
at Rome. Smith found him in poverty, and engaged him
to paint for him for a certain term of years, at a very low
salary, and sold his pictures at a high price to the English
who visited Venice: the best he kept for himself; and
the collection thus formed, with many pictures by Zucca-