Studio: international art (83.1922)

THE BURDETT-COUTTS COLLECTION

large miniature—it is about six inches by
ten—was thought by Walpole to be the
most beautiful work of its size in existence.
It is illustrated in this article, with several
other of the Digby miniatures and the
enamels by Petitot. The other works
in the collection illustrated are A Girl
Sketching, by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; A
Watermill, by Hobbema; Sir Thomas Law-
rence's portrait of the Earl of Minto; and
the three-quarter length of Pitt by Hoppner<
A very rare impressicnof Gainsborough.
Dupont's mezzotint cf his uncle's well-
known portrait of Mrs. Sheridan, is one of
many fine prints to be sold on May 8.
Bartolczzi, Valentine Green, Francis
Haward, J. R. Smith, Caroline Watson
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PORTRAIT OF GILBERT, FIRST
EARL OF MINTO. BY SIR
THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A.

and William Ward are among the en-
gravers represented by proofs after Sir
Joshua Reynolds, Romney, Hoppner, and
various painters of the same period. The
engravings from theatrical portraits of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are
very numerous and principally contained
in large albums. With the prints will be
sold drawings made by Stothard to illus-
trate Rogers' Italy; portrait sketches in
chalk and colour by J. J. Masquerier and
in pencil by William Hunt, a landscape by
De Wint, and a collection of about seventy
studies by that able topographical artist,
Frederick Nash, all of them Sussex views
with fifteen of Cowdray amongst them. 0
William T. Whitley.