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WOLVERTOX.
Letter XXXTT.
few lines from Sir John Boileau propitiated the housekeeper, who
allowed me the undisturbed view of the pictures, which I describe
in the order in which I saw them.
Jacob Ruysdael.—A sea-piece : a raging storm, with a sun-
beam upon the waves. Highly poetical, and of astonishing effect.
Jacopo Amiconi.—A series of portraits of a royal court. Pre-
sented to the Walpole family.
Sassoferrato.—The Marriage of St. Catherine, with an
angel. A particularly fine work of the master, of warm and
transparent colour.
Filippino Lippi.—A saint in red dress. A figure with a fine
head and noble action.
Berghem.—A rocky landscape, with a procession of shepherds
and animals. In his late cool and heavy manner. Inscribed.
Jan David de Heem.—A breakfast-table, with fruits. In
point of taste of arrangement, truth of detail, warm, sunny light-
ing, and masterly treatment, this belongs to the choice works of
this great painter. Inscribed, and dated 1651.
Lo Spagna.—An altar-picture ; of semicircular form above :
the Virgin enthroned, surrounded by angels ; below, two angels
with musical instruments, one of them looking up, especially
fine. This picture, which is noble in feeling and graceful in
motive, is the most important I have yet met with in England by
this rare master, who has so much affinity with the earlier pictures
of Raphael.
Near this are some good pictures by Lingelbach, Miel, and
poelembtjrg.
Jan Baptista Weenix.—A dead hare appears to be excel-
lent ; but, being placed over a door, it was not possible to form
any opinion as to the execution of the details.
Giacomo Bassano.—The Prodigal Son. A careful picture, in
his deep golden tone.
Andrea Verrocchio.—The Virgin and Child, the Baptist and
an angel. A beautiful picture of his earlier time. The head of
the Virgin expresses a noble melancholy. The treatment is deli-
cate, but the modelling less powerful than in his later pictures.
Portrait of Louis XV. ; whole-length figure. Presented by
that monarch to the then Earl of Or ford. It most resembles the
work of Hyacinth Rigaud.
Rubens.—The landscape, from the Balbi Palace in Genoa,
WOLVERTOX.
Letter XXXTT.
few lines from Sir John Boileau propitiated the housekeeper, who
allowed me the undisturbed view of the pictures, which I describe
in the order in which I saw them.
Jacob Ruysdael.—A sea-piece : a raging storm, with a sun-
beam upon the waves. Highly poetical, and of astonishing effect.
Jacopo Amiconi.—A series of portraits of a royal court. Pre-
sented to the Walpole family.
Sassoferrato.—The Marriage of St. Catherine, with an
angel. A particularly fine work of the master, of warm and
transparent colour.
Filippino Lippi.—A saint in red dress. A figure with a fine
head and noble action.
Berghem.—A rocky landscape, with a procession of shepherds
and animals. In his late cool and heavy manner. Inscribed.
Jan David de Heem.—A breakfast-table, with fruits. In
point of taste of arrangement, truth of detail, warm, sunny light-
ing, and masterly treatment, this belongs to the choice works of
this great painter. Inscribed, and dated 1651.
Lo Spagna.—An altar-picture ; of semicircular form above :
the Virgin enthroned, surrounded by angels ; below, two angels
with musical instruments, one of them looking up, especially
fine. This picture, which is noble in feeling and graceful in
motive, is the most important I have yet met with in England by
this rare master, who has so much affinity with the earlier pictures
of Raphael.
Near this are some good pictures by Lingelbach, Miel, and
poelembtjrg.
Jan Baptista Weenix.—A dead hare appears to be excel-
lent ; but, being placed over a door, it was not possible to form
any opinion as to the execution of the details.
Giacomo Bassano.—The Prodigal Son. A careful picture, in
his deep golden tone.
Andrea Verrocchio.—The Virgin and Child, the Baptist and
an angel. A beautiful picture of his earlier time. The head of
the Virgin expresses a noble melancholy. The treatment is deli-
cate, but the modelling less powerful than in his later pictures.
Portrait of Louis XV. ; whole-length figure. Presented by
that monarch to the then Earl of Or ford. It most resembles the
work of Hyacinth Rigaud.
Rubens.—The landscape, from the Balbi Palace in Genoa,