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PREFACE. 5
said " there was no doubt but that the statue was
of antiquity, but that the arms and fiddle had been re-
cently added." This had been done with such ingenuity
that no one had discovered it before Mengs; but the
truth of the same was not to be doubted. Mengs has
done but few paintings for England except copies; one
however he did for Lord Cooper, another for Sir R. C.
Hoare, and a few more for others, of which I shall give
an account; and there are a sew beautiful portraits and
pieces ofhis in France, which are not mentioned in the
list ofhis Paintings.
said " there was no doubt but that the statue was
of antiquity, but that the arms and fiddle had been re-
cently added." This had been done with such ingenuity
that no one had discovered it before Mengs; but the
truth of the same was not to be doubted. Mengs has
done but few paintings for England except copies; one
however he did for Lord Cooper, another for Sir R. C.
Hoare, and a few more for others, of which I shall give
an account; and there are a sew beautiful portraits and
pieces ofhis in France, which are not mentioned in the
list ofhis Paintings.