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Letter III.
MR. RUSSELL'S COLLECTION.
185
book. The whole is imbued with refined and elevated feeling,
the tone of colour very happy, and the execution thoroughly con-
scientious.
Sir Augustus Calcott.—A young girl, her head in chiaro-
scuro. Of pleasing feeling, graceful motive, and skilful compo-
sition.
PICTURES AND OBJECTS OE ART BELONGING TO
WILLIAM RUSSELL, ESQ.,
38, Chesham Place.
In addition to a collection of pictures of the earlier as well as
of the modern English school, Mr. Russell possesses a numerous
collection of drawings of various periods and schools. He has
also gathered together the richest collection existing of those
coloured woodcuts known to connoisseurs as " chiaroscuros."
I proceed first to notice those pictures and drawings which
appeared to me the most remarkable, in the order they occupy in
the different rooms.
DEAWING-KOOM.
Rubens.—The Conversion of St. Paul. This is altogether a
different composition from that known by Bolswert's engraving,—
the picture of which is in the possession of Mr. Miles, of Leigh
Court,—and one of less fortunate arrangement. It is however a
very spirited sketch.
Giorgio Vasari.—A very careful and transparently coloured
repetition of the picture of the Italian poets, Dante, Petrarch, and
Boccaccio, G. Cavalcanti, Ficino, and Poliziano, at Florence, on
a smaller scale.
Vandyck.—St. Rock entreating the assistance of Christ for
the figures smitten with the plague, who are seen at the lower part
of the sketch. Above is the Saviour descending at his prayer.
Very spirited.
Bartolommeo Schidone.—Cupid seated on the ground. Of
animated conception, and of powerful and clear colouring.
Sir Edwin Landseer.—Portrait of a brown dog, with a white
hare, some ptarmigan, and a black-cock dead beside him. The
MR. RUSSELL'S COLLECTION.
185
book. The whole is imbued with refined and elevated feeling,
the tone of colour very happy, and the execution thoroughly con-
scientious.
Sir Augustus Calcott.—A young girl, her head in chiaro-
scuro. Of pleasing feeling, graceful motive, and skilful compo-
sition.
PICTURES AND OBJECTS OE ART BELONGING TO
WILLIAM RUSSELL, ESQ.,
38, Chesham Place.
In addition to a collection of pictures of the earlier as well as
of the modern English school, Mr. Russell possesses a numerous
collection of drawings of various periods and schools. He has
also gathered together the richest collection existing of those
coloured woodcuts known to connoisseurs as " chiaroscuros."
I proceed first to notice those pictures and drawings which
appeared to me the most remarkable, in the order they occupy in
the different rooms.
DEAWING-KOOM.
Rubens.—The Conversion of St. Paul. This is altogether a
different composition from that known by Bolswert's engraving,—
the picture of which is in the possession of Mr. Miles, of Leigh
Court,—and one of less fortunate arrangement. It is however a
very spirited sketch.
Giorgio Vasari.—A very careful and transparently coloured
repetition of the picture of the Italian poets, Dante, Petrarch, and
Boccaccio, G. Cavalcanti, Ficino, and Poliziano, at Florence, on
a smaller scale.
Vandyck.—St. Rock entreating the assistance of Christ for
the figures smitten with the plague, who are seen at the lower part
of the sketch. Above is the Saviour descending at his prayer.
Very spirited.
Bartolommeo Schidone.—Cupid seated on the ground. Of
animated conception, and of powerful and clear colouring.
Sir Edwin Landseer.—Portrait of a brown dog, with a white
hare, some ptarmigan, and a black-cock dead beside him. The