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tionary inroad into Italy, when he thought 
it unsafe to stay, they were left in his ¢ 
study, in the Vineyards, where he occu- 
* pied the house of Raiael, as thinking 
that spot more secure than the city of 
Rome. This old vineyard-house I well 
temember, and have often designed; 
and had not Cardinal Doria bought it, 
should have been myself the purchaser 
when, in 1786, it was offered to sale for 
only 3000 scudi, with its capacious vine- 
yard. he situation is delightful, the 
front facing the villa Borghese, whose 
pines shade it in ‘the morning; the back 
looking towards the villa Medicis, and 
‘the whole distance not a quarter of a 
mile from the Porto-del-Popolo. Unfor- 
tunately, the cardinal, not possessing a 
due degree of taste, had the ground laid 
out immediate ly into what the underta- 
kers told him was an English garden, but 
*which only fcebly resembled some of the 
tea-places about London, without even 
the addition of yellow gravel, grass, or 
water, excepting a ditch or two with 
fairy bridges over them.—But to return 
to my subject: Besides tsese orders, be 
received from Lord Clive, when in Italy, 
on both bis tours, the most marked 
kindnesses, bis lordship taking bim in his 
own carriage through the finest’ part of 
the country, shewing him every polite at- 
tention, and making him reside with him 
whenever he stopped. 
Mr. John Renn, also, of Stoke Park, 
near Windsor, was a kind and good 
friend to our young artist, who executed 
for him drawings of the most celebrated 
Greek marbles, of a Colossal size, or at 
least as large as the originals; in which 
-the character is as highly marked as to 
give muclr of the energy of the antique. 
For Lord Clive were also executed two 
very clever drawings; a pastoral, anda 
tragic subject; one of which represented 
the fataletfects of a Roman quarrel, near 
the Porto-deél-Popolo, in which the scene 
isa portrait of the spot, and some of the 
fivurcsare'said to be correct likenesses of 
tie individuals concerned. ‘These were 
engraved by Sviron in the dotted man- 
ner. Phe one entitled the Colteilata, the 
other the Salterello, where a party at the 
Borghese-villa are executing that favou- 
rite luxurious dance. They were both 
published, and dedicated to bis noble pa- 
tron, of whose sister he painted a whole 
length, fur which he received ample re- 
Muueration; and had not the war inter- 
fesed, it was intended that he should 
take all the costumes of Italy, for which 
nv one could possess better abilities, his 
Memoirs of Charles Grignon, Esq. 
[Jan. ‘1, 
outline being exquisitely correct, and his 
knowledge of anatomy, as his drawings 
will testify, very considerable. 
When I was in the habit of seeing 
him almost daily, his chief study was the 
antique, and composition, but latterly 
landscape. The effects of light and 
skies made a considerable portion of his 
studies; even botanical designs will be 
found in his  port-folio; and that he 
aimed at universal excellence, all who 
knew him know, 
Among other studies, now in his bro- 
ther’s possession, in Seppia and Indian- 
ink, are lis Ulysses and Leucothea ; but I 
do not find that he painted them for any 
one. 
Compelled to quit Rome at a time 
when thousands of people were flying in 
every direction to avoid the French ar- 
miés, he and Mr. Fagan, now living, 
hired a carriage, and a waggon to take 
their pictures, and having purchased the 
two Altieri Clauds, so much talked. of, 
made the best of their way to Nap'es, 
where they found the whole court i the 
utmost consternation, and ready to em- 
bark on-board the Vanguard, Lord Nel- 
son, for the island of Sicily. Grignon 
now applied to his cousit, Captain Wal- 
ler, of the Emerald, to take him, his 
fr iend Mr, Fagan, aud their case of pic- 
tures, with which request the captain 
very readily complied; but the next day 
the Emerald’s destination’ was altered! 
Captain Hope, of the Alemar, now offer- 
ed him a passage, but his ship also had 
her destination “changed! and thus situ- 
ated, they were obliged to coutent them- 
selves with such accommodations as they 
could procure on board an armed Neapo- 
jitan polacca, and were cooped in a small 
cabin, with thirty or forty emigrants. On 
the 21st of December, 1798, a very vio- 
lent storm commenced, which nearly car= 
tied the masts of the V anguard by the 
board; and but for the exertions of two- 
or three English sailors, the Neapolitan 
vessel had certainly gone to the bottom, 
with the two artists, and a large collec- 
‘tion of pictures, in the purchase of which 
they had embarked a considerable sum, 
the fruits of years of industry, and un- 
remitting labour; for during the storm, 
the mariners had gone below to their 
prayers, and left the vessel to the care of 
Prov idence, and the mercy of the waves. 
On his arrival at Palermo, Grignon be- 
came acquainted-with Captain Richard- _ 
son, who had distinguished himself at 
Aboukir, under Lord Nelson, when in 
the Leander; and finding he intended 
taking 
