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talogue of the pid ures, which he returns 
when he Jeaves “ne rooms. 
This catalogue diipiays marks of can- 
dour, and ai: honouradle regard to truth, 
which we have rarely witnefled in the lift 
of a collection. “A very fine picture of 
St. John with the Lamb, from which the 
late Mr. Major engraved a print; and 
which the late Mr. Gainfoorough confi- 
dered as an uncommoniy fine original pic- 
ture by Moriliio, and made a copy of the 
fame fize, to keep in his poffeffion asa ftu- 
dy, and of which the many ceonnoificurs 
who faw it cxprefied the higheft admira- 
tion ;—this p.ciure, for which the late 
Duke of Bridgewater paid-a very large 
fur of money, ts in this catalogue ftared 
to be a copy; the original picture have 
ing been purchaled by Sir Simon Clarke 
{we believe from the religious houfe for 
which it wd4s painted), and by him im- 
ported to.this country. Thisis eminent ly 
candid and honourable; and to it ma y be: 
added, that many very capital pidures, 
where the painters could no: be pofitively 
afcertuined, have no painters name infert; 
ed in the cata-ogue. 
To deicribe all the firft-rate works in 
this mo!t {pleodid colleétion, would far 
exceed our beunds; indecd, with very 
few exceptions, the whole are in the very 
firli clals, and give the idea of a national 
eftablifhment, rather than of the colleétion 
— of an individval. 
Fheve are feveral of a mot capital de- 
feription by Titian: one of them, a Ju- 
as and Leda, is in a paffage that leads 
tothe gallery, and in a frame that is 
opened by a private {pring. 
There are feveral by Nicolo Pouffin; the 
Moles firiking the Rock, and the Mar- 
riage Feaft at Cana of Galilee we think 
funerior (if poflible) to the celebrated pic- 
ture of the Plague, in Mr. Hope’s coliec- 
tion. The Marguis is very rich in the 
{chook of the Ce his. There is a fimall 
and very beauriful piéture of Schidcni on 
a fimilar fubject to one by Coreggio, 
which hangs in the fame room. There 
area number of pictures by Leniers, and 
generally in his very bet fiyle ; and feve- 
ral by Adrian Oltade, Many very fine 
produsticns by Rubens. The tiger lying 
down and playing is a fingularly beauti- 
ful pifture. Of the Engliis ichvol there 
are feverai: a (ketch of the head of 
Charles I. by Dobfan, feems to be a ftu- 
cy for a larger picture of the tame head, 
which hangs over it, and is admuabdly 
drawn and beauriully coloured A moit 
capital piéture of Niobe, and a fmaller 
landicape by Willen; a very good land- 
Mouthly Retrs/peft of ihe Fine Arts. 
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fcape, the infide of a wood, by Sir George 
Beaumont. Two pi ‘lures ina very fine 
tafte by Weiltall. . Turner's pidture, fo 
much noticed, and admired when sn the 
Exhibition, of Di :tch boats in a formy * 
fea. In the adjvining room \is a large 
picture by Vanx tevelde, on a fimilar fab- 
jock. 
, By the moft celebrated mafters. of the 
differens fchools there are numberle{s ad- 
mirable pictures, which we have not now 
room even to enumerate. Many, by Sal- 
vator, ac. occ. fc. 
A very fine colleGion of pi@ures, lately 
imported from Rome by Mr, Wilfon, who 
went there with the intention of parchaj- 
ing them, are on priva’e view in Sack- 
ville-ftreet, Piccadilly. Among them, are 
two very capital, by Claude: thet with, 
the bridge is one of the happieft efforts of 
his pencil. A man in armour, and feve- 
ral other admirable piétures by Vandyke. 
One ina moft fuperiur fiyle by Rubens; 
in which that great paiater has been more 
thaa-ufually attentive to the drawing. A 
St. Cecilia by Michael Angelo Caravag. 
gio; a Parmegiano: feveral of fhipping, 
by Vandevelde; and ayy, by Ruyiéale, 
Wynants, &c. &c. &c. 
Horatio Lord Vifcount Nelfon, Duke of case, 
K B. Vice-Admiral of the White, Gc. From 
the original Pigture (in St. Andrew's Hall, 
Noraich ) painted at the particular Requeft of 
the Cor porati ion of that City, to whom this 
Print is refpeG fully dedicated. Sir Williawe 
’ Beechey, R.A. pinxt. Edward Bell feuipt. 
Publifbed by F. Freeman and E. Bell, ii 
don, and Norwich, AZay 1306. 
_ The picture, which was a tribute of 
refpect to the memory of our great and 
Jamented Admiral by the inhabitants of 
Norwich, was extremely well . painted, 
and this ier ate print from itis ina 
very re{pectable ftyle; but when prints 
are made fo dark, though it may be in- 
tended to heighten the effest, it ufually 
creates a heavinefs unpleatant to the eye. 
Samuel Whitbread, Efg. Ff. Opie, R. A. pinxt. 
SW. Reynolds, feulpt. _Publifoed by Si W. 
Reynolds, Fune 1806. 
Of the force and effec of Mr. Opie’s $ 
portraits we have frequently fpoken ; and 
the fpirited fyle in which this portrait is 
transferred to the copper is creditable ta 
the abilities of the arrilt, 
- The Right Hon. Henry. Petty, Chiincdlor of the. 
Exchegucr 
Jeulpt. 
_ down. 
The infant that a man of rank in this 
country geis into an exalted fituation, his 
faces 
H. VWaiton, pinxt C. Turners 
Dedicated to the Marquis of Lan/- 
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