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WENTWORTH HOUSE.
Letter XXIX.
Vandyck Room.
Vandyck.—G. The Earl of Strafford in armour, the baton in
his right hand, the left hand on the head of a large white dog;
whole-length standing figure, life-size. While the painter has
depicted this nobleman in the other picture as a statesman, he
represents him here with the stern, commanding expression of a
general, with sunburnt face. Drawing, keeping, and painting are
all equally masterly here, and very like the picture already de-
scribed at Petworth. This picture is also essentially the model for
the other portrait of the Earl in armour above mentioned.
7. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ; to the knees ; an
oval picture. This friend and fellow-sufferer of the Earl of Straf-
ford is of masterly execution in a clear reddish tone.
Sir Peter Lely.—3. The Duke of Gloucester, son of Charles
I.; very animated and careful; of oval form.
Vandyck.—-8. Henrietta Maria, in a blue silk dress, with a
black broad-bordered hat and feathers ; whole-length, life-size.
She is patting with her right hand a monkey, which is held by
Jeffery Hudson the dwarf; a beautiful picture, carefully executed
in the warmer tones of the earlier part of his residence in England.
6 ft. 8 in. high, 4 ft. wide.
9. Arabella, second Countess of Lord Strafford, in a blue silk
dress, in the act of drawing a curtain with her right hand : a very
elegant picture of his somewhat later time. 6 ft. 10 in. high, 4 ft.
3 in. wide.
The portrait of Lord Baltimore is by some skilful painter of the
school of Vandyck.
Anteroom.
Guido Reni.—Cupid sleeping ; above the size of life, with
landscape background ; a pleasing and very careful picture.
Sir Peter Lely.—4. Prince Rupert; one of the warm, care-
fully-treated pictures of his best time.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.—4. The infant Hercules strangling the
serpents; far more clearly coloured than the picture in Hadzor
Llouse, though very mannered in composition.
5. Studies for the great window in New College, Oxford—the
two shepherds, one of them his own portrait, and a shepherd
boy; attractive, warm, and careful.
Jacob Jordaens.—A very pretty girl with a parrot, and an
old man ; animated, brilliant, and transparent.
WENTWORTH HOUSE.
Letter XXIX.
Vandyck Room.
Vandyck.—G. The Earl of Strafford in armour, the baton in
his right hand, the left hand on the head of a large white dog;
whole-length standing figure, life-size. While the painter has
depicted this nobleman in the other picture as a statesman, he
represents him here with the stern, commanding expression of a
general, with sunburnt face. Drawing, keeping, and painting are
all equally masterly here, and very like the picture already de-
scribed at Petworth. This picture is also essentially the model for
the other portrait of the Earl in armour above mentioned.
7. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ; to the knees ; an
oval picture. This friend and fellow-sufferer of the Earl of Straf-
ford is of masterly execution in a clear reddish tone.
Sir Peter Lely.—3. The Duke of Gloucester, son of Charles
I.; very animated and careful; of oval form.
Vandyck.—-8. Henrietta Maria, in a blue silk dress, with a
black broad-bordered hat and feathers ; whole-length, life-size.
She is patting with her right hand a monkey, which is held by
Jeffery Hudson the dwarf; a beautiful picture, carefully executed
in the warmer tones of the earlier part of his residence in England.
6 ft. 8 in. high, 4 ft. wide.
9. Arabella, second Countess of Lord Strafford, in a blue silk
dress, in the act of drawing a curtain with her right hand : a very
elegant picture of his somewhat later time. 6 ft. 10 in. high, 4 ft.
3 in. wide.
The portrait of Lord Baltimore is by some skilful painter of the
school of Vandyck.
Anteroom.
Guido Reni.—Cupid sleeping ; above the size of life, with
landscape background ; a pleasing and very careful picture.
Sir Peter Lely.—4. Prince Rupert; one of the warm, care-
fully-treated pictures of his best time.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.—4. The infant Hercules strangling the
serpents; far more clearly coloured than the picture in Hadzor
Llouse, though very mannered in composition.
5. Studies for the great window in New College, Oxford—the
two shepherds, one of them his own portrait, and a shepherd
boy; attractive, warm, and careful.
Jacob Jordaens.—A very pretty girl with a parrot, and an
old man ; animated, brilliant, and transparent.