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Letter XXA^. . EAEL OF SUFFOLK'S COLLECTION.
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it be asked, however, who executed the other parts of the picture, I
should assign Bernardo Zenale as the most probable name. The
large altar-piece in the Brera by him, representing the Virgin
enthroned with the Child, the four fathers of the Church, and
Lodovico il Moro with his family (No. 344), shows the same heavy
character of the extremities, the same over-prominence of forms,
in the aim at the utmost possible modelling, and, finally, the same
dark tone in the shadows and white tone in the lights, only that
the lights in the picture in Charlton Park ha ye turned yellow with
an old varnish. The least satisfactory part is the execution of the
accessories, namely, of the landscape background, which is far more
delicate and beautiful in the Louvre picture, though that alone is
not sufficient to constitute it an original. On the other hand,, the
originality of Lord Suffolk's picture is confirmed by historical
evidence. Up to the year 1796 it was the altar-piece of the
Cappella della Concezione in the church of S. Francesco at Milan,
and is mentioned by the Milanese writer Lomazzo, who wrote
only sixty-five years after Leonardo da Vinci's death, and in two
different places, expressly as a picture by that master, and also
by the name of the Concezione. In 1796 it was purchased by
Mr. Gavin Hamilton from that chapel for thirty zechini, and from
him passed into the hands of Lord Suffolk.
Bagnacavallo.—The Virgin carried by four angels to Heaven;
below, small, in a dark landscape, St, Thomas receiving the girdle
of the Virgin, which falls from above. Finely composed, and exe-
cuted with the whole warmth of his colouring.
Sir Thomas Lawrence.—A male portrait. One of his good
pictures.
Pietro Francesco Mola.—A landscape with Hagar and
Ishmael. Poetic in invention, admirable in keeping, and carefully
executed.
Agostino Carracci.—A large landscape with the Baptism of
Christ, the first landscape I have ever seen by this usually scarce
master. The grandeur of the composition, even in this depart-
ment, does honour to his name. The figures show the practised
historical painter. Formerly in the Aldobrandini collection at Rome.
Annibale Carracci.—1. A large landscape with the Flight
into Egypt. In poetry of invention and in power of colour this
belongs to his best works in the landscape department. Formerly
in the Giustiniani collection at Rome.
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it be asked, however, who executed the other parts of the picture, I
should assign Bernardo Zenale as the most probable name. The
large altar-piece in the Brera by him, representing the Virgin
enthroned with the Child, the four fathers of the Church, and
Lodovico il Moro with his family (No. 344), shows the same heavy
character of the extremities, the same over-prominence of forms,
in the aim at the utmost possible modelling, and, finally, the same
dark tone in the shadows and white tone in the lights, only that
the lights in the picture in Charlton Park ha ye turned yellow with
an old varnish. The least satisfactory part is the execution of the
accessories, namely, of the landscape background, which is far more
delicate and beautiful in the Louvre picture, though that alone is
not sufficient to constitute it an original. On the other hand,, the
originality of Lord Suffolk's picture is confirmed by historical
evidence. Up to the year 1796 it was the altar-piece of the
Cappella della Concezione in the church of S. Francesco at Milan,
and is mentioned by the Milanese writer Lomazzo, who wrote
only sixty-five years after Leonardo da Vinci's death, and in two
different places, expressly as a picture by that master, and also
by the name of the Concezione. In 1796 it was purchased by
Mr. Gavin Hamilton from that chapel for thirty zechini, and from
him passed into the hands of Lord Suffolk.
Bagnacavallo.—The Virgin carried by four angels to Heaven;
below, small, in a dark landscape, St, Thomas receiving the girdle
of the Virgin, which falls from above. Finely composed, and exe-
cuted with the whole warmth of his colouring.
Sir Thomas Lawrence.—A male portrait. One of his good
pictures.
Pietro Francesco Mola.—A landscape with Hagar and
Ishmael. Poetic in invention, admirable in keeping, and carefully
executed.
Agostino Carracci.—A large landscape with the Baptism of
Christ, the first landscape I have ever seen by this usually scarce
master. The grandeur of the composition, even in this depart-
ment, does honour to his name. The figures show the practised
historical painter. Formerly in the Aldobrandini collection at Rome.
Annibale Carracci.—1. A large landscape with the Flight
into Egypt. In poetry of invention and in power of colour this
belongs to his best works in the landscape department. Formerly
in the Giustiniani collection at Rome.