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Letter XVIII.
ME. MILLS' COLLECTION.
249
picture, in beauty of motives and tender harmony of colours,
belongs to the best works of this class that I have seen by this
master.
It is to be hoped that Mr. Vivian will remove these pictures to
his beautiful country seat, Claverton, near Bath, where they may
be secure from the injury of a pernicious atmosphere, and seen to
due advantage.
PICTUEES BELONGING TO THE EAEL OF CHAELEMONT.
The kindness of Colonel Rawdon procured me the pleasure
of seeing Hogarth's two pictures, the Gates of Calais, and the
Gambler's last Stake. As these compositions are well known
by means of the engravings, I will only remark that the first is
painted in a cool silvery tone ; the second with a colouring un-
usually powerful and warm for Hogarth, and with great animation
of expression. Popular as this master is, there are many who will
be glad to know where these two pictures, which were preserved
for a number of years in Ireland, now are.
PICTUEES, BY GBEUZE, BELONGING TO ME. MILLS.
The visit which, in company with Lord Malmesbury, I paid to
the residence of Mr. Mills, was too short to enable me to form
any discriminating estimate of the various pictures here gathered
together under the name of Greuze. The following, however,
impressed me as admirable specimens of the master :—
A father reading prayers aloud to his family. The conception
is very true, the separate actions happy and pleasing, the exe-
cution careful and in a cool silvery tone.
A girl and a boy, formerly, if I am not mistaken, in the collec-
tion at Stowe. Naturally and vividly conceived, and transparently
and freshly coloured. Next in interest is a girl, a mere child,
painted in a reddish tone, and a boy ; both very attractive pic-
tures. Also of his older girls I observed some genuine and refined
specimens. Other pictures appeared to me too feeble for the
master; and one, of a girl gathering flowers, was decidedly a
copy.
ME. MILLS' COLLECTION.
249
picture, in beauty of motives and tender harmony of colours,
belongs to the best works of this class that I have seen by this
master.
It is to be hoped that Mr. Vivian will remove these pictures to
his beautiful country seat, Claverton, near Bath, where they may
be secure from the injury of a pernicious atmosphere, and seen to
due advantage.
PICTUEES BELONGING TO THE EAEL OF CHAELEMONT.
The kindness of Colonel Rawdon procured me the pleasure
of seeing Hogarth's two pictures, the Gates of Calais, and the
Gambler's last Stake. As these compositions are well known
by means of the engravings, I will only remark that the first is
painted in a cool silvery tone ; the second with a colouring un-
usually powerful and warm for Hogarth, and with great animation
of expression. Popular as this master is, there are many who will
be glad to know where these two pictures, which were preserved
for a number of years in Ireland, now are.
PICTUEES, BY GBEUZE, BELONGING TO ME. MILLS.
The visit which, in company with Lord Malmesbury, I paid to
the residence of Mr. Mills, was too short to enable me to form
any discriminating estimate of the various pictures here gathered
together under the name of Greuze. The following, however,
impressed me as admirable specimens of the master :—
A father reading prayers aloud to his family. The conception
is very true, the separate actions happy and pleasing, the exe-
cution careful and in a cool silvery tone.
A girl and a boy, formerly, if I am not mistaken, in the collec-
tion at Stowe. Naturally and vividly conceived, and transparently
and freshly coloured. Next in interest is a girl, a mere child,
painted in a reddish tone, and a boy ; both very attractive pic-
tures. Also of his older girls I observed some genuine and refined
specimens. Other pictures appeared to me too feeble for the
master; and one, of a girl gathering flowers, was decidedly a
copy.