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Letter XVIII. MISS ROGERS'S COLLECTION.
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Breakfast-room.
Hans Memling.—The wings of a small altar-picture. On the
one the portrait of an old woman kneeling with her patron saint;
on the other, also kneeling, a young man with a prayer-book, and
his patron saint, a youthful figure in armour ; the background a
landscape. These admirable little pictures retain much of his
master, Roger van der Weyden the elder, and belong therefore
decidedly to the earlier time of Memling.
Lucas van Leyden.—The Evangelists St. John and St. Mark.
The composition is the same as that of the well-known engraving by
this master, and belongs therefore unquestionably to him. But
the execution is in my opinion not quite worthy of him, though
treated in the manner of his few genuine pictures.
Christ in the act of blessing, surrounded with the Apostles
Peter, John, Andrew, and James; half-length figures, on a gold
ground. The heads are very earnest and dignified, the execution
solid, with somewhat heavy brown flesh-tones. This picture
forcibly recalls, especially in the draperies, the earlier Nether-
landish manner of Antqnello da Messina.
Angelo Bronzing.—Portrait of Leonora di Toledo, wife of
Cosmo L, Duke of Tuscany ; half the size of life. An admirable
work, distinguished from most of the pictures by this master by
the transparency and warmth of the flesh-tones.
Peter Neefs.—1 and 2. Two delicate and small interiors of
churches.
Guercino.—2. A landscape, with figures near a clear piece of
water ; St. Peter's in the background. A remarkably good picture
of this class by the master; the powerful foreground forming an
attractive contrast with the clear and cool distance.
Antonio Pollajuolo.—To this master I am inclined to
attribute the profile of a lady with full bust, and, as appears from
the arms annexed, of the Soderini family. The head is of great
delicacy. The picture is erroneously ascribed to Verocchio.
Portrait of a man with a falcon on his wrist: by some very ex-
cellent German contemporary of Holbein.
Jan Van Eyck. — 1 and 2. Portraits of a man and woman, on
a red ground, each picture about 3i in. high by 2h in. wide,
probably fragments of a larger picture. These have all the mar-
269
Breakfast-room.
Hans Memling.—The wings of a small altar-picture. On the
one the portrait of an old woman kneeling with her patron saint;
on the other, also kneeling, a young man with a prayer-book, and
his patron saint, a youthful figure in armour ; the background a
landscape. These admirable little pictures retain much of his
master, Roger van der Weyden the elder, and belong therefore
decidedly to the earlier time of Memling.
Lucas van Leyden.—The Evangelists St. John and St. Mark.
The composition is the same as that of the well-known engraving by
this master, and belongs therefore unquestionably to him. But
the execution is in my opinion not quite worthy of him, though
treated in the manner of his few genuine pictures.
Christ in the act of blessing, surrounded with the Apostles
Peter, John, Andrew, and James; half-length figures, on a gold
ground. The heads are very earnest and dignified, the execution
solid, with somewhat heavy brown flesh-tones. This picture
forcibly recalls, especially in the draperies, the earlier Nether-
landish manner of Antqnello da Messina.
Angelo Bronzing.—Portrait of Leonora di Toledo, wife of
Cosmo L, Duke of Tuscany ; half the size of life. An admirable
work, distinguished from most of the pictures by this master by
the transparency and warmth of the flesh-tones.
Peter Neefs.—1 and 2. Two delicate and small interiors of
churches.
Guercino.—2. A landscape, with figures near a clear piece of
water ; St. Peter's in the background. A remarkably good picture
of this class by the master; the powerful foreground forming an
attractive contrast with the clear and cool distance.
Antonio Pollajuolo.—To this master I am inclined to
attribute the profile of a lady with full bust, and, as appears from
the arms annexed, of the Soderini family. The head is of great
delicacy. The picture is erroneously ascribed to Verocchio.
Portrait of a man with a falcon on his wrist: by some very ex-
cellent German contemporary of Holbein.
Jan Van Eyck. — 1 and 2. Portraits of a man and woman, on
a red ground, each picture about 3i in. high by 2h in. wide,
probably fragments of a larger picture. These have all the mar-