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THE
TREASURES OF ART IN GREAT BRITAIN.
LETTER XIII.
Buckingham Palace : Flemish and Dutch Schools — French School — Eng-
lish School.--Bridgewater House : Tuscan School — Roman School
— Pictures by Raphael — Lombard School —■ Venetian School — Bolog-
nese School — French School — Spanish School — Flemish and Dutch
Schools — English School — Chandos portrait of Shahspeare — Modern
French and German Schools — Drawings by the Carracci — Foley's Ino
and Infant Bacchus — Copies of old pictures.---British Institution.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
This royal residence was originally built for George IV.,
and has since been greatly extended by the addition of a wing.
The apartments in which Her Majesty's entertainments are given
are most suitably decorated for such purposes. A large gallery,
lighted very favourably from above, contains a fine collection of
pictures, chiefly of the Flemish and Dutch schools. The greater
portion were purchased by George IV. This monarch had a pre-
dilection for pictures of the Dutch and Flemish schools ; and, as
very few possess the means of gratifying such a taste in so high a
degree as a king of England, he succeeded in forming a choice
gallery of the rarest and most excellent specimens of this kind in
Europe. The Dutch pictures formerly belonging to Sir Thomas
Baring constitute a principal part of it. To these are added a
number of pictures of the highest class from other celebrated col-
lections, which were purchased, chiefly through the intervention of
Lord Farnborough, for truly princely prices.
Since the accession of Queen Victoria many interesting addi-
tions have been made to this collection, so that it now forms one
of the first galleries of this school of painting in the world. I
proceed to describe the pictures separately.
VOL. II. e
TREASURES OF ART IN GREAT BRITAIN.
LETTER XIII.
Buckingham Palace : Flemish and Dutch Schools — French School — Eng-
lish School.--Bridgewater House : Tuscan School — Roman School
— Pictures by Raphael — Lombard School —■ Venetian School — Bolog-
nese School — French School — Spanish School — Flemish and Dutch
Schools — English School — Chandos portrait of Shahspeare — Modern
French and German Schools — Drawings by the Carracci — Foley's Ino
and Infant Bacchus — Copies of old pictures.---British Institution.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
This royal residence was originally built for George IV.,
and has since been greatly extended by the addition of a wing.
The apartments in which Her Majesty's entertainments are given
are most suitably decorated for such purposes. A large gallery,
lighted very favourably from above, contains a fine collection of
pictures, chiefly of the Flemish and Dutch schools. The greater
portion were purchased by George IV. This monarch had a pre-
dilection for pictures of the Dutch and Flemish schools ; and, as
very few possess the means of gratifying such a taste in so high a
degree as a king of England, he succeeded in forming a choice
gallery of the rarest and most excellent specimens of this kind in
Europe. The Dutch pictures formerly belonging to Sir Thomas
Baring constitute a principal part of it. To these are added a
number of pictures of the highest class from other celebrated col-
lections, which were purchased, chiefly through the intervention of
Lord Farnborough, for truly princely prices.
Since the accession of Queen Victoria many interesting addi-
tions have been made to this collection, so that it now forms one
of the first galleries of this school of painting in the world. I
proceed to describe the pictures separately.
VOL. II. e