Jameson, Anna: Companion to the most celebrated private galleries of art in London: containing accurate catalogues, arranged alphabetically, for immediate reference, each preceded by an historical & critical introduction, with a prefactory essay on art, artists, collectors & connoisseurs (London: Saunders and Otley, 1844)

THE BRIDGEWATER GALLERY.

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and halting while another man reposes by the road side ;
beyond these, another man mounted on an ass, another ass
near him. The effect is that of a glowing summer evening.
P. llj in. by 14j in. {Smith’s Cat. 101.)
BREUGHEL (Jan) [the Velvet Breughel], b. 1589; d. 1642.
138 The Conflagration of a City by Night.—Pur-
chased by Lord Francis Egerton.
BEGA (Cornelius), b. at Haarlem, 1620; d. 1664.
[A clever pupil and imitator of Ostade.]
139 The Interior of a Cottage—with a woman nursing
a child, and two other persons near her.
From the collection of Greffier Fagel.
BERGHEM (Nicholas Klaas), b. 1624, at Haerlem; d. 1683.
[Nature, as represented by Berghem, always reminds me of a fine
lady dressed to act in a pastoral, having a sort of Phillis and Cloe
look, combined with the most artificial elegance ; very charming,
notwithstanding. See p. 15.]
140 A Landscape.-—The effect is that of a gusty, rainy at-
mosphere. A hawking party of one lady and three gen-
tlemen, and two sportsmen netting birds, enliven the
scene.
Purchased by Lord Francis Egerton. {Smith’s Cat. 284.)
141 Landscape—A rocky scene; in front, a woman upon
an ass with its foal, and a herdsman with three cows. The
effect is a glowing evening after sunset: most clear and
brilliant.
Purchased, in 1801, for 320 guineas. P. 9 in. by 12 in.
The companion picture, sold at the same time by Mr.
Purling, was bought by George IV., and is No. 18 in the
Queen’s Gallery.
i 42 Landscape.—'A view over a flat open country, with a
river crossed by a long bridge. In the foreground a
hawking party; a lady on a grey horse, with a falcon on