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)

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LANSDOWNE COLLECTION.

one hand, and with the other raises the lid. The drapery
green, with a light veil.
A picture of exquisite beauty. If not by Lionardo, (of
whom it is quite worthy,) it must be by Andrea Solari, an
admirable painter of Milan, cotemporary with Lionardo,
whose manner he imitated.*

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BERGHEM (Nicholas Klaas), b. 1624; d. 1683. [See p. 15 and 135.]
63 A small Landscape.—In the foreground a peasant in
a red vest, with cows, and sheep, and two boys about to
cross a ford; in the middle distance, a ruined castle on a
hill; and in the background a lofty mountain, with clouds
sailing across its summit. A picture charmingly com-
posed. B.
BOTH (Jan), b. 1610; d. 1650.
64 Landscape.—Sunset. An Italian farm and buildings,
with figures.
65 Landscape.—Sunset. The artist drawing from nature;
herdsmen conversing with him.
CUYP (Albert), b. 1606; d. about 1670. [See p. 17.]
66 Landscape.—Scene on the river Maes, with the town
of Dort on the left. In front of the town, a large two-
masted vessel, and various small craft. To the right, a
raft with three men on it, towed by a large river boat;
beyond, another boat, with the sail spread. The flat,
wooded shore of the river in the distance. The effect is
that of a bright summer evening. The water exquisitely
transparent, and every part of the picture freely and beau-
* The exquisite little picture by Solari, now in the Louvre, (1228,) so often
attributed to Lionardo, is very like this head in execution, as well as I can judge
from memory.