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THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.
271
Glycera, who according to the classical story, was the in-
ventress of garlands.* He holds her portrait; she has a
wreath of flowers in her hand. Her countenance is beau-
tiful, and rather pensive, just as she is represented in the
picture at Munich.f I presume this picture to be about
the same date, 1610 or 1611; or perhaps painted during
the courtship, a charming compliment to his bride. The
flowers are by Velvet Breughel. Agar collection. For-
merly in the possession of Sir Gregory Page Turner.
C. 7 ft. by 6 ft. 2 in. (Smith’s Cat. 777.)
113 Two Boy Angels.—Life size. Apparently studies
after nature for one of his great pictures. Most beautiful
and animated. From the Agar collection.
C. 3 ft. by 2 ft. 5 in.
114 Landscape.—A hilly country, with an extensive dis-
tance. Peasants getting in the harvest. A picture stated
by Mr. Young to have been painted when Rubens was
only eighteen or twenty, before he went to Italy. It is
very spirited in the composition, and carefully finished
in the execution. 1 ft. 2| in. by 1 ft. 10 in.
115 The Wise Men’s Offering.—A fine composition of
thirteen figures, life size, which Rubens is said to have
painted for the convent of the White Sisters, at Louvain,
in the short space of eleven days, working at his usual rate
of 100 francs a day. On the suppression of the convents
in Flanders, it was sold, and came subsequently into the
possession of the late Marquess of Lansdowne, from whose
collection it was purchased in 1806, for 840Z.
C. 10 ft. 9 in. by 10 ft. 1 in. (Smith’s Cat. 156.)
11 6 Conversion of St. Paul.—-A small spirited sketch.
The first thought for the great picture in Mr. Miles’s gal-
lery at Leigh Court.
* The portrait of Glycera, painted by her lover, was famed in the antique
time, and bought by the Roman Lucullus for two talents.
t In the Pinacothek, No. 541, Rubens and his wife, seated hand in hand, in
an arbour. Rubens married Elizabeth (or Isabel) Brant, in 1610, and she
died in 1626.
271
Glycera, who according to the classical story, was the in-
ventress of garlands.* He holds her portrait; she has a
wreath of flowers in her hand. Her countenance is beau-
tiful, and rather pensive, just as she is represented in the
picture at Munich.f I presume this picture to be about
the same date, 1610 or 1611; or perhaps painted during
the courtship, a charming compliment to his bride. The
flowers are by Velvet Breughel. Agar collection. For-
merly in the possession of Sir Gregory Page Turner.
C. 7 ft. by 6 ft. 2 in. (Smith’s Cat. 777.)
113 Two Boy Angels.—Life size. Apparently studies
after nature for one of his great pictures. Most beautiful
and animated. From the Agar collection.
C. 3 ft. by 2 ft. 5 in.
114 Landscape.—A hilly country, with an extensive dis-
tance. Peasants getting in the harvest. A picture stated
by Mr. Young to have been painted when Rubens was
only eighteen or twenty, before he went to Italy. It is
very spirited in the composition, and carefully finished
in the execution. 1 ft. 2| in. by 1 ft. 10 in.
115 The Wise Men’s Offering.—A fine composition of
thirteen figures, life size, which Rubens is said to have
painted for the convent of the White Sisters, at Louvain,
in the short space of eleven days, working at his usual rate
of 100 francs a day. On the suppression of the convents
in Flanders, it was sold, and came subsequently into the
possession of the late Marquess of Lansdowne, from whose
collection it was purchased in 1806, for 840Z.
C. 10 ft. 9 in. by 10 ft. 1 in. (Smith’s Cat. 156.)
11 6 Conversion of St. Paul.—-A small spirited sketch.
The first thought for the great picture in Mr. Miles’s gal-
lery at Leigh Court.
* The portrait of Glycera, painted by her lover, was famed in the antique
time, and bought by the Roman Lucullus for two talents.
t In the Pinacothek, No. 541, Rubens and his wife, seated hand in hand, in
an arbour. Rubens married Elizabeth (or Isabel) Brant, in 1610, and she
died in 1626.