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ME. MORKISON'S COLLECTION.
Letter IT.
broadly and finely treated picture is somewhat relieved by a
gleam of sun which falls on the water and the mill.
Teniers.—The Seven Works of Mercy. In the representation
of this subject the painter has adhered to his usual peasant life.
The composition is rich ; the feeding of the hungry, the clothing
of the naked, and the giving drink to the thirsty, being made
the prominent works. Signed. On wood, 2 ft. 3^ in. high, 3 ft.
11| in. wide. Five pictures of this subject are known by Teniers,
the finest of which is that in the collection of Baron Steengracht
at the Hague. Two others, very admirable, are in the Louvre
and in the collection of Lord Ashburton. This example is less
luminous in tone; but the colouring is warm, and the execution
minute. Formerly in Sir Thos. Baring's collection.
Jean Baptiste Greuze.—Upon an easel. A young girl in a
white dress, with a straw hat with flowers in it hanging on her left
arm, is plucking the petals from a white flower in order to tell her
fortune. On canvas, of oval form, 2 ft. 2^ in. high, 1 ft. llf in. wide.
The serious expression with which she is performing this important
operation is very becoming to the pretty face. The execution is in
a solid body, and of very delicate and transparent tone.
An enamel portrait of Flaxman in this room is a good and
careful work by the well-known W. Essex,
Luca della Robbia.—A moderately raised relief in terracotta
with coloured glazings representing the Virgin with the Child on
her lap, who with the left hand is drawing a stalk of lilies at the
foot of the Virgin towards him, while with the right he is also
grasping at it. Of admirable style, attractive motive, pleasing
forms, and careful execution.
back drawing-room.
This apartment is adorned with water-colour drawings by eminent
English artists.
Prout.—View of the Doge's palace, of the Piazetta, and of
the Zecca, taken from the canal close to the Riva de Schiavoni.
2 ft. 5^ in. high, 3 ft. 5 in. wide. This is one of the best spe-
cimens I know of the master, for the great power of foreground
peculiar to him, is here combined with singular transparency, and
an unusual delicacy of gradation in the various distances.
Copley Fielding.—A stormy sea with a vessel in danger of
ME. MORKISON'S COLLECTION.
Letter IT.
broadly and finely treated picture is somewhat relieved by a
gleam of sun which falls on the water and the mill.
Teniers.—The Seven Works of Mercy. In the representation
of this subject the painter has adhered to his usual peasant life.
The composition is rich ; the feeding of the hungry, the clothing
of the naked, and the giving drink to the thirsty, being made
the prominent works. Signed. On wood, 2 ft. 3^ in. high, 3 ft.
11| in. wide. Five pictures of this subject are known by Teniers,
the finest of which is that in the collection of Baron Steengracht
at the Hague. Two others, very admirable, are in the Louvre
and in the collection of Lord Ashburton. This example is less
luminous in tone; but the colouring is warm, and the execution
minute. Formerly in Sir Thos. Baring's collection.
Jean Baptiste Greuze.—Upon an easel. A young girl in a
white dress, with a straw hat with flowers in it hanging on her left
arm, is plucking the petals from a white flower in order to tell her
fortune. On canvas, of oval form, 2 ft. 2^ in. high, 1 ft. llf in. wide.
The serious expression with which she is performing this important
operation is very becoming to the pretty face. The execution is in
a solid body, and of very delicate and transparent tone.
An enamel portrait of Flaxman in this room is a good and
careful work by the well-known W. Essex,
Luca della Robbia.—A moderately raised relief in terracotta
with coloured glazings representing the Virgin with the Child on
her lap, who with the left hand is drawing a stalk of lilies at the
foot of the Virgin towards him, while with the right he is also
grasping at it. Of admirable style, attractive motive, pleasing
forms, and careful execution.
back drawing-room.
This apartment is adorned with water-colour drawings by eminent
English artists.
Prout.—View of the Doge's palace, of the Piazetta, and of
the Zecca, taken from the canal close to the Riva de Schiavoni.
2 ft. 5^ in. high, 3 ft. 5 in. wide. This is one of the best spe-
cimens I know of the master, for the great power of foreground
peculiar to him, is here combined with singular transparency, and
an unusual delicacy of gradation in the various distances.
Copley Fielding.—A stormy sea with a vessel in danger of