BOOK by Teniers; and a Chrilt bearing the crofs, by Ludovico Caracci,
X I , * . half length, of the natural fize; the countenance expreilive of
that meek dignity by which the founder of the Bolognefe fchool
has peculiarly charaCterifed the Saviour of mankind.
3. The collection of Count Bruhl, remarkable for twelve
Woverman’s; a Holy Family, by Vatteau; an Ecce Homo, by
Michael Angelo Caravagio; a painter who fucceeded in delineating
fimple nature and low life, but was extremely deficient in
treating dignified fubjeCts.
4. Part of the collection of the Chevalier Baudouin, purchafcd
at Paris; the poffeiTor referving to himfelf feveral landfcapes by
the Dutch mailers, and Vernet. Among the pictures which
came to the emprefs, I obferved feveral excellent paintings by
Rubens and Vandyke, particularly an ineltimable head of Henry
the Fourth, by Rubens; a Study after Nature, for the Luxem-
burgh gallery, greatly expreilive of that vivacity and bon-hommie
which charaCterifed that amiable monarch; two, by Ferdinand
Bol; feveral, by Rembrandt, in his itrong but uncouth manner;
and two lovely groupes of childrens heads, in the characters of
angels, by the inimitable Corregió.
5. The collection of Houghton-houfe, the lofs of which every
lover of the arts muit fincerely regret, and upon which I need
not enlarge, as the pictures are well known, from the catalogue
públiíhed by the honourable Horace Walpole, and from the
engravings by BoydelL
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6. A collection from Venice, containing feveral, by old Palma, c fTA p.
Titian, Paul Veronefe, and the BaiTans; many of which .are, ■ - L— _
however, very doubtful whether they are originals.
O f the Roman fchool the emprefs pofleiles four undoubted
originals, by Raphael. 1. A Holy Family, in that great mailer’s
belt manner, and in the higheii prefervation. 2. Portrait of Cardinal
Pole, alfo in his belt manner. 3. A St. George, of which
there is an engraving by Voiterman. Thefe three paintings
from the cabinet of Crozat. 4. The Lait Supper, an undoubted
original, but in bad condition.
I muit not omit an old and an excellent copy of the School
of Athens, o f which the original picture, for compofition,
correCtnefs of defign, and juit delineation of character, Hands unrivaled
in the art of painting.
Several fine landfcapes by Claude Lorraine, the painter of nature
; and two delightful landfcapes by Gafpar Pouifin, in which
that poetical painter, io remarkable for his piCturefque pencil,
has delineated towers and battlements,
“ Boibmed high in tufted trees
and in which he realizes the beautiful imagery defcribed in the
Penferofo of Milton:
t! And when the fun begins to fling
His flaming beams, me, goddefs, bring
To arched walks of twilight groves,
And ihadows brown that Sylvan loves,
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