Ottley, William Young [Hrsg.]; Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower of [Hrsg.]; Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower of [Bearb.]: Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures in London (2): Engravings of the most noble the Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures in London: arranged according to schools, and in chronological order, with remarks on each picture (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818)

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This picture is on canvas, measures 3 feet 5 4 inches in height, by
7 feet 9 inches in width, and was formerly in the collection of Sir
George Yonge.
No. 17. JACOPO PALMA IL VECCHIO.
Nat. 1548. oh. 1596.
THE HOLY FAMILY, WITH THE INFANT ST. JOHN.
An unaffected group, painted with that vigour and mellowness of
colouring which peculiarly characterize the earlier disciples of Titian.
The figure of the Madonna is not devoid of grace, and the landscape
in the background is happily disposed.
This picture is on canvas, and measures 3 feet 2 inches in height,
by 3 feet 8j inches in width.
No. 18. PALMA VECCHIO.
THE HOLY FAMILY, WITH ST. JOHN.
Th is little picture is coloured with great clearness and brilliancy,
but in a more hard, and at the same time a more finished style of exe-
cution than the one last described, and it is probable that they are not
both by the same hand. Even in the time of Ridolphi, the historian of
the Venetian school, it was considered no easy task to distinguish from
each other the works of many of the numerous contemporaries of Titian,
and imitators of his earlier manner : the lapse of two centuries has greatly
increased the difficulty, and we have now to regret that the praise justly
due to more than nine-tenths of the excellent artists with which the
schools of Italy have abounded during a succession of ages, should be
bestowed on the smaller number, whose more resplendent talents, or
happier fortune, gained them patrons, public employment, and, conse-
quently, more extended reputation.
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