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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



No. 45. THE BRADLEY PORTRAIT (page 229). 



Mr. William Harrison Bradley, of Chicago, the United States consul at Nice, has a 

 portrait of Columbus, which he purchased in the winter of 1891 from the heirs of an 

 .aristocratic French surgeon and courtier named Imbert-Dolonnes, Avho figured con 

 spicuously at the court of Louis XVI. The portrait is of the De Bry type, and 

 resembles very closely the Talleyrand canvas. During the general panic and flight 

 which followed the inauguration of the revolution, Imbert-Dolonnes fled with the 

 multitude of Royalists to seek safety out of Paris. For some time he remained 

 secluded at Avignon, but, hearing that many of the King s paintings and household 

 effects were to be sold at auction, he ventured to return and save from the wreck this 

 portrait of Columbus and copies of two Titians, which are now in the Louvre. The 

 story has come down through the family that Imbert-Dolonnes himself set a very 

 high estimate on the portrait, and that it was a particular favorite of Marie Antoi 

 nette. The canvas is cased in an old frame. Its general tone is somewhat somber, 

 and the &quot;school &quot; is unmistakably Flemish. 



The navigator is represented in a dark-green or green-black coat, and his headdress 

 is of the same hue. The background is filled in with a very warm and reddish 



brown. Across the top of the canvas is painted 

 the legend in simple Latin, &quot;Christoph. Co 

 lombo, Ligur. Orbeiu Alterum Excogitavit et 

 primus Visit, an. 1492.&quot; At the side of the 

 picture appears the line from Virgil, &quot;Etmihi 

 facti fama sat est.&quot; 



How the portrait came into the royal family 

 of France no one knows, but it is claimed to 

 be the original of the De Bry. 



In Frijherus is a sour-faced De Bry, with the 

 head turned to the right, by Rosapina. The 

 inscription is &quot;Christopher Columbus, India- 

 rum Primus Inventor.&quot; 



Xo. 46. THE COSTA PORTRAIT (page 230). 



A type of the De Bry or Versailles appears in 

 Cento Ritratti de Illustri Italiani, Milano, 1825, 

 Germo Costa, Del Germo Scotto. 



COLUMBUS IX CHAIN?. 



From an old Print. (See page 237. ) 



Xo. 47. THE BERWICK- ALBA PICTURE (plate x). 



There are two portraits bearing the name of 

 the family of Berwick-Alba, which at one time 



held the titles and dignities descending from Columbus. One of them is a painting 

 and the other an engraving. They are generally .alike, representing Columbus 

 arrayed in highly colored silks and embroideries a costume he never wore, and 

 which was unsuitable to his rank and circumstances. In the painting he is repre 

 sented as seated in a gorgeous chair, while in the engraving he is represented as 

 standing, and there are some additional variations in the background. The 

 engraving was executed with considerable spirit and vigor by the distinguished 

 artist, D. Rafael Esteve, from a drawing made by the painter Galiano, and bears 

 this inscription: &quot;El quadro original fue&quot; pintado en America por Von Loo&quot; (the 

 original was painted in America by Von Loo). No such artist is known in the annals 

 of American art, but there was a painter of that name in Holland a century or more 

 ago. The late Mr. James Lenox, the founder of the Lenox Library at New York r 

 thought well of the picture, and a copy hangs in his collection. 



Xo. 48. THE JOMARD PORTRAIT (plate xi). 



The Jomard portrait is so called in honor of a distinguished scholar and critic, M 

 Jomard, for many years librarian of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, who dis 

 covered it in a gallery at Vicenza, Italy, in 1844. &quot; I saw it by chance,&quot; says M. 



