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THE BRIDGEWATER GALLERY.
95
this Paradise of art. But time and space are limited: we
turn to leave, and turning, pause once more before the
.Madonna del Passeggio:—
“ How shall we part, and whither wander down
Into a lower world?
How shall we breathe in other air,
Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits ?”
Italian, l?pantelj, anti dFrtncfj
ALBANO (Francesco), b. 1578; d. 1660. Studied under Guido.
Bologna S.
[A painter who without one element of strength or greatness, one
touch of true or earnest feeling, painted agreeable pictures, in which
the slender graceful figures, have all a pretty pastoral air: the
landscapes are pleasing, airy, and arcadian ; the colouring tender and
brilliant. His faults are a total want of mind and variety in concep-
tion, and the most wearying insipidity and uniformity in form and
in expression. Hence it is that some of his mythological subjects, his
Nymphs and Cupids, Oreads, and Dryads of the grove, are some-
times very charming; his scripture pieces generally intolerable; and,
on the whole, excepting Vander Werf, I know not any painter of
celebrity with whom one becomes so quickly and so easily satiated
as with Albano.]
1 Salmacis and Hermaphroditus.—The landscape
rather dark. In the Orleans gallery since 1721; previously
in the possession of the Abbe de Camps.
Purchased by the Duke of Bridgewater for 60 guineas. C. 1 ft. 6 J in.
by 2 ft. 4 in.
2 A Holy Family.—The Virgin seated in a landscape.
She holds the infant Christ on her right arm; behind the
infant are two angels kneeling. St. Joseph, leaning on an
antique pedestal, ornamented with bas-reliefs, which repre-
sent a woman giving children some drink from a cup. For
Albano, excellent. In the Orleans gallery, since 1721;
previously in the possession of M. de Nancre.
Purchased by the Duke of Bridge water. C. 1 ft. 10 in. by
1 ft. 4 in.
95
this Paradise of art. But time and space are limited: we
turn to leave, and turning, pause once more before the
.Madonna del Passeggio:—
“ How shall we part, and whither wander down
Into a lower world?
How shall we breathe in other air,
Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits ?”
Italian, l?pantelj, anti dFrtncfj
ALBANO (Francesco), b. 1578; d. 1660. Studied under Guido.
Bologna S.
[A painter who without one element of strength or greatness, one
touch of true or earnest feeling, painted agreeable pictures, in which
the slender graceful figures, have all a pretty pastoral air: the
landscapes are pleasing, airy, and arcadian ; the colouring tender and
brilliant. His faults are a total want of mind and variety in concep-
tion, and the most wearying insipidity and uniformity in form and
in expression. Hence it is that some of his mythological subjects, his
Nymphs and Cupids, Oreads, and Dryads of the grove, are some-
times very charming; his scripture pieces generally intolerable; and,
on the whole, excepting Vander Werf, I know not any painter of
celebrity with whom one becomes so quickly and so easily satiated
as with Albano.]
1 Salmacis and Hermaphroditus.—The landscape
rather dark. In the Orleans gallery since 1721; previously
in the possession of the Abbe de Camps.
Purchased by the Duke of Bridgewater for 60 guineas. C. 1 ft. 6 J in.
by 2 ft. 4 in.
2 A Holy Family.—The Virgin seated in a landscape.
She holds the infant Christ on her right arm; behind the
infant are two angels kneeling. St. Joseph, leaning on an
antique pedestal, ornamented with bas-reliefs, which repre-
sent a woman giving children some drink from a cup. For
Albano, excellent. In the Orleans gallery, since 1721;
previously in the possession of M. de Nancre.
Purchased by the Duke of Bridge water. C. 1 ft. 10 in. by
1 ft. 4 in.