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Letter XXIX. EARL FITZWILLIAM'S COLLECTION.
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2. A rocky sea-coast; a large picture with red figure and a
dark tone ; altogether not very attractive.
Teniers.—A rocky landscape, with some peasants.
Vandyck.—5. Lord Strafford in armour, his right hand on his
helmet; to the knees. Notwithstanding the other good qualities
of the picture, the very gloomy and heavy tone raises some doubts
in my mind as to its originality.
Raphael.—This name is given to a Virgin and Child which
in point of motive is unquestionably taken from the picture of the
Virgin with the canopy in the Pitti Palace. The picture is warm
in colouring and careful in execution, and is probably by the hand
of Xnnocenzo da Imola.
Titian.—1. A Holy Family. This I can only consider a work
of his school.
Palma Vecchio.—The Virgin with the Child holding the
globe; the Baptist pointing to the Child, and a nobly-conceived
St. Catherine. A beautiful picture, executed in his warmest tones.
Adrian van Ostade.—A peasant wedding; unusually large
and rich, but so sunk, and the colouring become so heavy and
feeble, as no longer to give the impression of an original.
Claude Lorraine.—Landscape, with a very reddened sky ; so
sunk that no opinion of its merits is possible.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.—2. Portrait of the Countess of Fitz-
william, mother of the present Earl, a good but somewhat faded
picture, with a pleasing landscape background.
A portrait of Shakspeare, a copy made by Sir Godfrey
Kneller, and by him presented to Dryden, is only so far inter-
esting as showing the same features as those in the Chandos pic-
ture in the Bridgewater Gallery, thus corroborating the truth
of that.
Yellow-damask Room.
Hogarth.—The family of the Earl of Rockingham ; a rich
picture, but hung too high for any accurate opinion.
Drawing-room.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.—3. The present Earl Fitzwilliam, four
years of age ; originally very attractive, but now faded.
Sir Thomas Lawrence.—Portrait of the father of the present
Earl; an unfinished picture of very animated conception.
Stubrs.—A brown horse, size of life ; of great animation.
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339
2. A rocky sea-coast; a large picture with red figure and a
dark tone ; altogether not very attractive.
Teniers.—A rocky landscape, with some peasants.
Vandyck.—5. Lord Strafford in armour, his right hand on his
helmet; to the knees. Notwithstanding the other good qualities
of the picture, the very gloomy and heavy tone raises some doubts
in my mind as to its originality.
Raphael.—This name is given to a Virgin and Child which
in point of motive is unquestionably taken from the picture of the
Virgin with the canopy in the Pitti Palace. The picture is warm
in colouring and careful in execution, and is probably by the hand
of Xnnocenzo da Imola.
Titian.—1. A Holy Family. This I can only consider a work
of his school.
Palma Vecchio.—The Virgin with the Child holding the
globe; the Baptist pointing to the Child, and a nobly-conceived
St. Catherine. A beautiful picture, executed in his warmest tones.
Adrian van Ostade.—A peasant wedding; unusually large
and rich, but so sunk, and the colouring become so heavy and
feeble, as no longer to give the impression of an original.
Claude Lorraine.—Landscape, with a very reddened sky ; so
sunk that no opinion of its merits is possible.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.—2. Portrait of the Countess of Fitz-
william, mother of the present Earl, a good but somewhat faded
picture, with a pleasing landscape background.
A portrait of Shakspeare, a copy made by Sir Godfrey
Kneller, and by him presented to Dryden, is only so far inter-
esting as showing the same features as those in the Chandos pic-
ture in the Bridgewater Gallery, thus corroborating the truth
of that.
Yellow-damask Room.
Hogarth.—The family of the Earl of Rockingham ; a rich
picture, but hung too high for any accurate opinion.
Drawing-room.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.—3. The present Earl Fitzwilliam, four
years of age ; originally very attractive, but now faded.
Sir Thomas Lawrence.—Portrait of the father of the present
Earl; an unfinished picture of very animated conception.
Stubrs.—A brown horse, size of life ; of great animation.
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