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thought to be his body-colour pictures, 
in the execution of which he was most 
eminently successful; and which are 
rendered more valuable trom the very 
few artists, who have encountered the 
laborious difficulty attending that scien- 
tific mode of painting, and met with any 
very considerable success. 
Towards the latter part of his life, he 
accustomed himself to paint in oil, in 
which he was also successful; the same 
faithfulness, clearness, and accuracy, and 
that appearance of day-light, is to be seen 
in a few oil pictures he left behind him. 
Mr. Sandby was a great admirer of the 
works of Marco Ricci, and studied them 
with fond attention; whenever one of 
Marco’s pictures was to be met with, Mr. 
Sandby, if possible, became its pur- 
chaser ; and, perhaps, he had the largest 
collection of that master extant in the 
country. 
_ With Wilson he lived in habits of great 
intimacy, and it is no little praise to him 
that he early discovered and advocated the 
genius of that great man; he possessed a 
prodigious number of the finest sketches 
and studies of Wilson, obtained from the 
artist himself. His love for the profes- 
Sion tempted him to collect, at a con- 
siderable expense; and, in the course of 
a great number of years, he had accu- 
mulated an immense quantity of the 
works of various masters, both ancient 
and modern. 
No man communicated with greater 
freedom, and with less reserve, than Mr. 
Sandby, any information he was possessed 
of; though Iam not aware that he ever 
» gave to the public any thing respecting 
his art: but, it is certain, there were few 
persons more perfectly skilled in the the- 
ory and practice of painting than him- 
self; and, as he never could be prevailed 
upon to take under his instruction any 
professional pupil but his son, itis to be 
presumed, that that yentleman is the 
repository of his discoveries and peculiar 
methods of working in his art. 
. In his domestic virtues he was excelled 
by few, and his private worth (the most 
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certain of all testimonies) may be found 
in that confidence, respect, and attach. 
ment, which attended him through life; 
and, though latterly, amongst his surrounds 
ing friends, there must have been few 
with whom he began life, yet there were 
some, I remember with infinite pleasure, 
being one day about seven years ayo at 
his house, when the late ingenious Mr. 
Grignion, the engraver, came in, who, 
though then upwards of eighty years of 
age, had come from Kentish-Town, to 
visit his old friend; and, as the venerable 
gentlemens’ hands met, Mr. Grignion 
exclaimed, “ My dear Paul, Tam come 
to spend the day with you; for, by the 
memorandum on this scrap of paper, ‘it 
appears, that, on this day sixty years 
back, you and I first met; and though, 
my dear friend, our hands may be colder 
now than then, I am sure our hearts are 
hotter.” 
Those early impressions, formed by 
gentlemanly habits and feeling, which 
are never to be eradicated or mistaken, 
were very conspicuous in Mr. Sandby. 
There was a politeness and affability in 
his address, a sprightliness and vivacity 
in his conversation, together with a cons 
stant’ equanimity of temper, which, 
joined with his having beén the friend 
and companion of such men as Foote, 
Churchill, Garrick, Goldsmith, Macklin, 
and others of the same class, rendered 
his society and conversation singularly 
animating and interesting, Arrived at 
an age which few are permitted to attain, 
and spared almost all those infirmities 
which so generally accompany the accu~ 
mulated years of man, his vigour of mind 
abated not to the last. Till within a few 
days of his death, he continued to paint, 
and, during fourteen days only preceding 
thac event, he finished his largest work 
in ‘oil, which possesses equal spirit and 
truth, with any of his former productions 
in that way: when, at the conclusion of 
his eighty-fourth year, he left this world 
affectionately remembered and beloved 
by all who knew him, ; 
S.T. P. 
“8L SCARCE 
