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 a TlRT Gallery 
 
 OF THE LOAN COLLECTION 
 
 OF Pictures 
 
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 Price Sixpence, 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Exhibition of a Selection of Works 
 
 BY 
 
 FRENCH & ENGLISH PAINTERS OF 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
Jirt Gallery of the Qorporatton 
 of London. 
 
 Catalogue of the 
 
 Exhibition of a ... . 
 Selection of Works by 
 French and English . 
 Painters of the . . . . 
 Eighteenth Century . . 
 
 With Descriptive and Biographical Notes. 
 
 BY 
 
 A. G. TEMPLE, F.S.A., 
 
 director of the Art Gallery of the 
 Corporation of London. 
 
 RICHARD OSMOND HEARSON, Esq., Chairman. 
 
 1902. 
 
Blades» East & Blades, 
 Printers, 
 23, Abchurch Lane, London, E,C. 
 
Sntrobuction. 
 
 The present is the Eleventh Exhibition held at 
 the Guildhall. 
 
 The First was in 1890, of works of 
 
 the Flemish, Dutch and British 
 
 Schools, and was visited by... 109,383 persons. 
 The Second was in 1892, of 
 
 works of the Flemish, Dutch, 
 
 Italian and British Schools, 
 
 and was visited by 236,362 „ 
 
 The Third was in 1894, of works 
 
 of the Dutch and British 
 
 Schools, and was visited by... 300,366 „ 
 The Fourth was in 1895, of works 
 
 of the Dutch and British 
 
 Schools, and was visited by... 262,810 „ 
 The Fifth was in 1896, of Water 
 
 Colours of the British School, 
 
 and was visited by ... ... 124,271 „ 
 
 The Sixth was in 1897, of works 
 
 by Painters of the British 
 
 School during the Queen's 
 
 reign, and was visited by ... 248,093 „ 
 The Seventh was in 1898, of 
 
 works of the French School, 
 
 and was visited by 206,746 „ 
 
 The Eighth was in 1899, of the 
 
 works of J. M. W. Turner, 
 
 R.A., and his contemporaries, 
 
 and was visited by 223,132 „ 
 
 The Ninth was in 1900, of the 
 
 works of living British Painters, 
 
 and was visited by 201,456 „ 
 
 The Tenth was in 1901, of the 
 
 works of the Spanish School, 
 
 and was visited by 305 5 35 9 » 
 
 Total 2,217,978 „ 
 
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 In addition to the above number the permanent 
 Collection of the Corporation has been visited since 
 its establishment in 1886, by 756,581 persons, bring- 
 ing the total number of visitors to the Gallery to 
 2,974,559- 
 
 The Exhibition now open is composed of a selection 
 of works by French and English Painters of the 
 Eighteenth Century. 
 
 The Library Committee of the Corporation of 
 London desires to express its sincere thanks to the 
 owners of these works for the kindness with which 
 many distinguished and valuable examples have been 
 placed at its disposal. 
 
 The Exhibition will be open from Tuesday, the 
 22nd April, to Saturday, the 26th July, inclusive. 
 
 Week Days, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 
 Sundays, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. 
 
 The Admission will be free. 
 
 Guildhall, 
 
 Aprils igo2. 
 
 A. G. TEMPLE, 
 
 Director. 
 
Xi&rar? Committee* 
 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD 
 MAYOR. 
 
 RICHARD OSMOND HEARSON, Esq., Chairman. 
 
 Sir REGINALD HANSON, Bart., LL.D., F.S.A., Alderman. 
 
 Sir JOSEPH SAVORY, Bart., Alderman. 
 
 Sir ALFRED J. NEWTON, Bart., Alderman. 
 
 Sir JAMES THOMSON RITCHIE, Knt., Alderman. 
 
 GEORGE WYATT TRUSCOTT, Esq., Alderman. 
 
 FREDERICK PRAT ALLISTON, Esq., Alderman, L.C.C 
 
 WILLIAM GEORGE HOWARD, Esq. 
 
 JAMES BANKS PITTMAN, Esq. 
 
 EDWARD ANSTED, Esq. 
 
 DANIEL GREENAWAY, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 EDWIN FREDERICK FITCH, Esq. 
 
 JOHN EDWARD WALFORD, Esq., Deputy 
 
 OSCAR COHU BERRY, Esq., F.C.A. 
 
 THOMAS JAMES IVE, Esq. 
 
 DAVID BURNETT, Esq., F.S.I. 
 
 ALEXANDER RITCHIE, Esq., J. P. 
 
 WALTER OWEN CLOUGH, Esq., J.P. 
 
 FREDERIC GEORGE PAINTER, Esq. 
 
 JOHN REXWORTHY, Esq. 
 
 CHARLES EDWARD ATKINS, Esq. 
 
 GEORGE BRIGGS, Esq. 
 
 JAMES LAKE, Esq. 
 
 CUTHBERT FREDERICK CORBOULD-ELLIS, Esq. 
 
 WALTER HAYWARD PITMAN, Esq. 
 
 WILLIAM ROME, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Late Chairman. 
 
 BENJAMIN TURNER, Esq. 
 
 ALPHEUS CLEOPHAS MORTON, Esq. 
 
 CHARLES THOMAS HARRIS, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 OCTAVIUS DIXIE DEACON, Esq. 
 
 JOHN HARRIS, Esq. 
 
 CHARLES JOHN TODD, Esq. 
 
 HENRY HODSALL HEATH, Esq., Deputy, 
 
 SAMUEL SPENCER, Esq., A.I.C.E. 
 
 JOSEPH HENRY BATTY, Esq. 
 
 THOMAS HENRY ELLIS, Esq. 
 
 JOHN JAMES BADDELEY, Esq., Deputy. 
 
G ALLERY I. 
 
G ALLERY I. 
 
 I. CONCERT D' AMOUR. 
 
 By CHARLES ANTOINE COYPEL. 
 Canvas 45 x 35 inches. 
 Lent by M. GIMPEL. 
 
 Charles Antoine Coypel, son of Antoine Coypel, 
 bom 1694, in Paris; died 1752. The pupil of his 
 father, whose style he adopted. A series of his illus- 
 trations of " Don Quixote " were executed at the 
 Gobelins, for the Due d'Antin ; the cartoons are now 
 at Compi^gne. 
 
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 GALLERY I. 
 
 2. THE TWO SISTERS. 
 
 HE scene is the interior of a cottage, where 
 
 * a humbly-clad peasant girl, in a striped 
 gown, seated beside her father, is being held by 
 him at arms' length from her gaily dressed sister, 
 who has just entered, and who, bedecked with 
 large pearls and other adornments, is holding 
 out to her indignant parent a purse of gold, in 
 the hope of thereby appeasing him. The book 
 of the play she carries in her hand is suggestive 
 of her having fled from home to go upon the 
 stage. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 107. 
 
 3. HEAD OF A CHILD. 
 
 Spectator ; dark hair, with a fillet of yellow 
 in it ; white and red drapery. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 107. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE. 
 Canvas 23 x 28^ inches. 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE. 
 
 Canvas 16 x 13 inches. 
 
 Lent by LESSER LESSER, ESQ. 
 
 over her right shoulder at the 
 
GALLERY 1. 
 
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 4. A PASTORAL. 
 
 By FRANCOIS BOUCHER. 
 
 Canvas 33 x 26 inches. 
 
 Lent by C. T. D. CREWS, ESQ., J.P., f.s.a. 
 
 A YOUTH and a girl, he in red and she in 
 blue and yellow, are seated, coquetting, 
 near the base of a ruin, with cows and sheep 
 near them, and an ass laden with various articles 
 on the right. It is a typical picture, with its 
 serene sky and soft grey clouds of Boucher s small 
 cabinet work, and shows a completeness of com- 
 position of which, in this department of decora- 
 tive art, he was the acknowledged master of his 
 time. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 5. 
 
 5. THE LOVE MESSAGE. 
 
 By FRANCOIS BOUCHER. 
 Canvas 136 x 73 inches. 
 Lent by MADAME RIDGWAY. 
 
 THIS decorative panel, of grand dimensions, 
 is one of a series of four, all of which are 
 in the present collection (Nos. 5, g, 25 and 39), 
 and for many years have adorned the state 
 dining-room of the Marquis de Ganay, in Paris. 
 They have never before been publicly exhibited. 
 
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 GALLERY I. 
 
 Here a party of four ladies and a youth are 
 gathered on the banks of a stream in which the 
 youth, in scarlet costume and broad-brimmed 
 hat, has been fishing. The interest of the 
 moment is the sending away of a dove, the 
 bearer of a messcige, which the two on the right 
 are holding, and are evidently in doubt as to the 
 wisdom of despatching it. The two other ladies, 
 one seated with a basket of fruit and flowers on 
 her arm, and the other in light brown costume, 
 and holding a basket of grasses, seem equally 
 concerned in the enterprise. The background 
 on the right consists of slender stems of trees in 
 full foliage and a dwarfed pillar, on which stands 
 a massive vase full of blossoming flowers. On 
 the left there is an expanse of softly clouded blue 
 sky. 
 
 Franqois Boucher. Bom 1703. Died 1770. 
 History and genre painter. Drew first for engravers ; 
 secured the First Prize at the Academy at the age 
 of twenty, and then he went to Rome with Carle Van 
 Loo, on whose death he became first Painter to the 
 King. The portrait of the all-powerful favourite, 
 Madame de Pompadour, was painted by him several 
 times. Although a sense of the voluptuous per- 
 vades his work, it is nevertheless seldom associated 
 with any distinct disregard of dehcacy. Grace of 
 line and delicacy of colour are relied upon to charm, 
 and these qualities are rarely absent from his work. 
 His productions drew from Diderot the well-known 
 expression, " What colours, what variety ! " 
 
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 6. LE SILENCE (Silence). 
 Portrait of the Duchesse 
 de Flavacourt. 
 
 By JEAN MARC NATTIER. 
 Canvas 41^ x sS)4 inches. 
 Lent by LIONEL PHILLIPS, ESQ. 
 
 HALF-LENGTH figure, life-size, in the act 
 of flying from the couch of the sleeping 
 Cupid, from whom she has stolen his bow and 
 arrow, and making a sign as she passes, to impose 
 silence. Green drapery is on the left, and two 
 columns on the right 
 
 It was in 1 740 that the Duchesse de Mazarin 
 brought to Nattier's studio her two celebrated 
 nieces, the Mademoiselles de Nesle, notorious in 
 later years as the Duchesse de Chateauroux and 
 the Duchesse de Flavacourt, and fortime and 
 Royal favour came with them, for the Queen 
 herself desired to see the portraits, and at once 
 commissioned Nattier to paint certain of the 
 Court celebrities. 
 
 This picture and No. 8 were commissioned 
 or purchased of Nattier by the Count Carl 
 
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 GALLERY L 
 
 Gustaf Tessin, during his stay in Paris as Am- 
 bassador of Sweden, in 1739-1741. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of the Count von 
 
 Platen, at Stockholm. An excellent copy 
 is in the possession of the Countess Wedel 
 (formerly Countess von Platen), at Berlin. 
 
 Jean Marc Nattier. Born 1685. I^i^d 1766. 
 History and portrait painter. Son and pupil of 
 Marc Nattier. Studied much in the gallery of the 
 Luxembourg, where he copied for the engraver the 
 pictures there by Rubens. In Amsterdam he 
 painted the portraits of Peter the Great and Cathe- 
 rine I, as well as many members of the Russian 
 Court. He won the first prize at the French 
 Academy at the age of fifteen. There is a life of 
 Nattier written by his daughter, Madame Tocque. 
 
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 7. MADAME HENRI- 
 ETTE DE FRANCE. 
 
 By JEAN MARC NATTIER. 
 
 Canvas 96 x 72 inches. Signed and dated 
 
 Lent by C. J. WERTHEIMER, ESQ. 
 
 Given by Madame Adelaide de France to 
 Madame la Duchesse de Beauvillier, her 
 Maid of Honour, passing afterwards into 
 the Collection of the Prince Sciarra, at 
 Rome. 
 
 MADAME ANNE HENRIETTE DE 
 FRANCE was the daughter of Louis 
 
 XIV. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 6. 
 
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 8. LE POINT DU JOUR 
 (The Break of Day). 
 Portrait of the Duchesse de 
 Chateauroux. 
 
 By JEAN MARC NATTIER. 
 Canvas 41^ x 58^ inches. 
 Lent by LIONEL PHILLIPS, ESQ. 
 
 IT ALF-LENGTH figure, life-size, her left 
 ^ ^ arm extended in the act of giving up a 
 torch as no longer needed, now that day has 
 come ; with her right she pours water from an 
 ewer to refresh herself on awaking. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of the Count von 
 Platen, at Stockholm. An excellent copy 
 is in the possession of the Countess Wedel 
 (formerly Countess von Platen), at her 
 residence at Berlin. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 6. 
 
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 9. LOVE'S OFFERING. 
 
 By FRANCOIS BOUCHER. 
 Canvas 136 x 72 inches. 
 Lent by MADAME RIDGWAY. 
 
 HERE a popular th^me of the French pain- 
 ters of the period is treated in a very 
 charming way by this painter. Led by the 
 figure of love, the two with their offering of 
 flowers have come to place them at the shrine of 
 Cupid, around which rose-bushes profusely grow. 
 Dressed in pale blue and white, with narrow blue 
 ribbons about their waists and wrists, and bare- 
 footed, the two have just arrived at the shrine, 
 when the still romantic time of evening is com- 
 ing on, and the clouds are just being touched 
 with gleams of sunset. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 5. 
 
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 10. PORTRAIT OF 
 MADAME D ANGER. 
 
 By LOUIS TOCQU^:. 
 
 Canvas 32 x 25 inches. Signed and dated 
 1753. 
 
 Lent by M. POTHUAU. 
 
 Louis Tocque, bom in Paris, 1696, died 1772; 
 pupil of Nicolas Bertin and Hyacinth Rigaud. 
 Painted principally portraits. He spent two years at 
 St. Petersburg by invitation of the Empress Eliza- 
 beth, and went from there to Copenhagen, where he 
 painted several members of the Royal Family of 
 Denmark. He married a daughter of the painter 
 Nattier. 
 
 11. LE CHATEAU DE 
 CARTES (The Castle of 
 Cards). 
 
 By JEAN SIMEON CHARDIN. 
 Canvas 26 x 34^ inches. 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 FIGURE of a youth seated at a table, facing 
 the right, amusing himself with building a 
 castle with playing cards. 
 
 Painted and exhibited in the Salon, 1741, 
 under the title of " Le fils de M. Le Noir s'amu- 
 sant a faire des chateaux de cartes." A similar 
 
GALLERY I. 
 
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 subject was exhibited in the Salon of 1739, and 
 is now in the Hermitage Gallery at St. Peters- 
 burg, and an excellent repetition, with slight 
 variations, is in the Collection of M. Jacques 
 Doucet, in Paris. 
 
 Jean Simeon Chardin. Bom 1699. Died 1779. 
 Genre and still-life painter. Pupil of Gazes and of 
 Noel Nicolas Coypel. The painting of a barber's 
 sign first attracted attention to him. By 1741 he 
 had established his reputation as a painter of peasant 
 and middle-class life, executed always with a certain 
 grace peculiarly French. Latterly he worked at por- 
 traiture in pastel. His works are rare. His genre 
 pieces are remarkable for neatness of finish and 
 expression, harmony of tone, and for the careful 
 arrangement of light and shade. His still-life has 
 extraordinary breadth and richness. "A painter of 
 the bourgeoisie as original as Hogarth," says Mr. 
 Wedmore in " On Books and Arts." And, again, of 
 his still-life, " he opens to us, in a measure that is 
 entirely his own, the charm of the world of matter." 
 
 12. PORTRAIT OF HIS 
 
 FATHER. 
 
 By 'jean baptiste greuze. 
 Canvas 17% x 13^ inches. 
 Lent by GEORGE DONALDSON, ESQ. 
 
 LIFE-SIZE bust, full face, with long, wavy 
 grey hair ; brown coat ; shirt open at the 
 
 neck. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 107. 
 
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 GALLERY L 
 
 13. THE MARQUISE DE 
 MARIGNY. 
 
 By CARLE VAN LOO. 
 
 Canvas 36 x 28^ inches. Signed and dated 
 i;69. 
 
 Lent by M. WILDENSTEIN. 
 
 SHE was the sister-in-law of the Marquise de 
 Pompadour. 
 
 One of this fashionable painter's most elegant 
 portraits, easy in attitude and of more than his 
 usual grace, in its light-coloured satin gown, with 
 pale grey sleeves. The touch of blue velvet 
 against the ermine, and the pearls that run 
 through her hair, round her neck, down her 
 shoulders, and which encircle her wrists, add a 
 special charm to the portrait. 
 
 Carle Andre van Loo, bom 1705; died 1765. 
 A son of Louis van Loo, and a pupil of his brother, 
 Jean Baptiste van Loo. In company with this 
 brother he visited Italy. In 17 19 he returned to 
 Paris, and obtained the first prizes for drawing and 
 painting. In 1727 he again visited Rome; on his 
 return to Paris he rose from one appointment to 
 another, until, in 1763, he became Director of the 
 Academy. 
 
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 13a, THE MARQUISE DE G. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE HUET. 
 
 Canvas 32 x 29 inches. Signed and dated 1773. 
 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 HE landscape is bathed in a warm mist, 
 
 * suggestive of the heat of summer, and is 
 occupied by a shepherd who reclines against a 
 tree, and around are the sheep he is guarding, 
 and his shepherd's dog. 
 
 Jean Baptiste Huet, born in Paxis, 1745, died 
 1 81 1. A natural history painter, pupil of J. B. 
 Leprince. He was elected an Academician in 1769. 
 A picture of " Two Dogs " by him is in the Louvre, 
 and other examples are in various museums in 
 France. His father and his son were also animal 
 painters. 
 
 By NICHOLAS DE LARGILLIERE. 
 Canvas 55 x 41^ inches. 
 Lent by MRS. BISCHOFFSHEIM. 
 
 14. A PASTORAL. 
 
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 GALLERY 1. 
 
 15. A MAGDALEN. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE. 
 Canvas 22 x 18 inches. 
 Lent by M. EDMOND SIMON. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 107. 
 
 16. L'AIMABLE ACCORD. 
 
 By JEAN FRANCOIS DE TROY. 
 Canvas 76 x 52 inches. 
 Lent by M. WILDENSTEIN. 
 
 Engraved by CATHERINE DE TOURNAY. 
 
 Jean Francois de Troy, bom 1679, in Paris, 
 died 1752. Pupil of his father, who sent him to 
 Italy, where he stayed for four years, obtaining, by 
 the assistance of the Marquis de Villecerf, a royal 
 pension. He was recalled to Paris, by his father, in 
 1708, and became a member of the Academy. He 
 painted a series of designs for tapestry for Louis XIV, 
 and several large works for the Hotel de Ville. In 
 1738, the King appointed him Director of the 
 French Academy in Rome, where he executed 
 another set of cartoons, from the history of Jason. 
 Many of his easel pictures are in French galleries. 
 
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 17. PORTRAIT OF 
 MONSIEUR DE 
 NOERMONT, 
 
 By NICHOLAS DE LARGILLI^RE. 
 
 Canvas 54 x 42 inches. 
 
 Lent by MESSRS. T. AGNEW & SONS. 
 
 nPHREE-QUARTER length hgure, Hfe-size, 
 
 1 standing facing the spectator, powdered 
 hair ; his left hand extended in the act of speak- 
 ing, and his right upon his hip. His brown, em- 
 broidered coat has over it a sumptuous robe of 
 crimson velvet, arranged and painted with a 
 force and grace in which Largilliere truly ex- 
 celled. Background, a fluted column and a 
 clouded sky. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 21. 
 
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 GALLERY L 
 
 1 8. A FAMILY GROUP. 
 
 By FRANCOIS HUBERT DROUAIS. 
 
 Canvas 96 x inches. Signed and dated 
 
 ce I avril, 1756. 
 
 Lent by LORD MASHAM. 
 
 IN a handsome apartment a lady in brown skirt 
 and loose white dressing jacket, open in 
 front, and showing the purple bows of her 
 bodice, is seated at a dressing-table, toward the 
 left, but turning round to speak to her husband, 
 who, in the elaborate costume of the period of 
 Louis XVL, is standing behind, leaning upon 
 her chair. At her knee, with hands full of flowers, 
 is the little daughter of the house, a dark-eyed 
 girl in blue dress and powdered hair, in which 
 her mother is arranging some blue flowers. On 
 the ground beside them is an open box, evidently 
 containing new articles of apparel. A crimson 
 cover is around the mirror, and a blue curtain 
 hangs beside the window. 
 
 FRAN901S Hubert Drouais. Born 1727. Died 
 1775. Portrait painter. Son and pupil of Hubert 
 Drouais, and later of Carle van Loo and Boucher. 
 He painted very many of the famous men and women 
 of his day, including several members of the reigning 
 family of France. One of his most beautiful por- 
 traits is that of Madame de Pompadour, in the 
 Museum at Orleans. 
 
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 19. PORTRAIT OF 
 MADAME DE 
 NOERMONT. 
 
 By NICHOLAS DE LARGILLIERE. 
 
 Canvas 54 x 42 inches. 
 
 Lent by MESSRS. T. AGNEW & SONS. 
 
 THREE-QUARTER length figure, Hfe-size, 
 facing the spectator, her right hand, 
 somewhat extended, holds a pheasant, while her 
 left hand is held lightly out towards a large dog. 
 Her rich white satin dress in graceful folds is 
 enriched by the jewels in her bodice and by a 
 leopard skin wliich is drawn round her figure 
 over her left arm. Dark foliage is in the back- 
 ground, with a glimpse of moxmtain and sky on 
 the left. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 21. 
 
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 GALLERY L 
 
 20. MADAME ROLUND. 
 
 By MADAME VIGEE LE BRUN. 
 Canvas 73 x 51 inches. 
 
 Lent by M. WILDENSTEIN. 
 
 LIFE-SIZE figure, standing towards the left, 
 but looking at the spectator. White satin 
 dress, over which is a gown of blue and white 
 striped satin. A fillet of blue runs through the 
 fair curling hair, and she is playing upon a harp 
 which stands against a red covered table where 
 her music rests. 
 
 Madame Marie Louise Elisabeth Le Brun (nee 
 Vigee). Bom 1755. Died 1842. Portrait, history 
 and landscape painter. Pupil of Briard and Joseph 
 Vemet, and a great student of the old masters in the 
 Louvre. She was twenty-four when she painted the 
 first of the twenty-five portraits which she executed 
 of Marie Antoinette, with whom she was on terms 
 of the closest intimacy. She withdrew to Italy 
 during the great French Revolution, painting while 
 there a portrait of Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante. 
 She was an Associate Member of nearly all the 
 European Academies, and her art excited the eager 
 curiosity of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
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 21. MADAME LAMBERT 
 DE THORIGNY. 
 
 By NICHOLAS DE LARGILLIERE. 
 
 Canvas 55 x 42 inches. 
 
 Lent by M. WILDENSTEIN, 
 
 " That triumphant portrait painter of middle- 
 aged beauty." — Lady Dilke. 
 
 Nicholas de Largilliere. Born 1656. Died 
 1746. In his eleventh year he became the pupil of 
 Antoon Gouban, at Antwerp, whom he assisted by 
 painting the still-life accessories in his pictures. In 
 his nineteenth year he came to England and found 
 work in the Royal Palaces under Sir Peter Lely. 
 This brought him under the notice of Charles II, 
 whose portrait he painted, together with those of 
 many of the nobility. He then settled in Paris and 
 at once obtained a large practice among the bour- 
 geoise and professional classes. In 1686 he was 
 admitted into the French Academy, and it is curious 
 to note that, although he is now remembered only 
 as a portrait painter, and as such has been styled 
 " the French Van Dyck," yet in his own day he had 
 a great reputation as a painter of historical subjects ; 
 and after the deaths of Le Brun and Mignard he 
 occupied the foremost place in the French School in 
 that branch of art 
 
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 GALLERY L 
 
 22. LE SERMENT 
 
 D'AMOUR (The Love- 
 Vow). 
 
 By L. R. TRINQUESSE. 
 
 Canvas, oval, 25 x 20 inches. Signed and 
 dated i;Sg. 
 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 WOODED glade, down which two couples 
 
 ^ ^ are hurrying towards a stone pillar, on 
 which is set a kneeling statue of Cupid. The 
 lady in the foremost couple is calling to witness 
 the vow she makes, while tlie one following is 
 shielding her eyes from the god which her hurry- 
 ing footsteps have just brought into sight. 
 
 L. R. Trinquesse, portrait and genre painter; 
 pupil of Largilliere. He flourished in Paris and at 
 the Hague in the latter part of the eighteenth cen- 
 tury. He was admitted into the Guild at the Hague 
 in 1767, and exhibited at the Academy in Paris as 
 late as 1793. The exact dates of his birth and 
 death are not known. His works are rare. 
 
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 23. LE BAISER GAGN^: 
 (The Kiss Won). 
 
 HE interior of a rustic room, in which a 
 
 * youth, in pale blue jacket and straw hat, 
 is endeavouring to snatch the stake of a game of 
 cards — 3. kiss — ^from a young girl in pink and 
 yellow dress, who resists his efforts, in spite of 
 the girl friend, who apparently is on the young 
 man's side. She holds both the hands of the 
 loser, who consequently cannot free herself. 
 
 Formerly in the Collections of M. de Breteuil, 
 M. de Chamgrand, and Dr. Aussant 
 
 Vide L'Art du XVIIL Siecle— " Fragonard." 
 Groncourt, p. 333. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 102. 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 Canvas 22)4 x 26)4 inches. 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
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 GALLERY I. 
 
 24. HEAD OF A GIRL. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE. 
 
 Canvas 18 x 14 inches. 
 
 Lent by the EARL OF NORTHBROOK, G.C.S.I. 
 
 T IFE-SIZE, turned to the right; muslin 
 
 ■L' drapery is round the head, and she wears 
 a grey dress, open in front, and loosely fastened. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Colonel Temple. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 107. 
 
 By FRANCOIS BOUCHER. 
 
 Canvas 136 x inches. Signed and dated, 
 
 1757. 
 
 Lent by MADAME RIDGWAY. 
 
 HERE a shepherdess at fall of day is seated 
 by a little stream, asleep, a narrow ribbon 
 circling her wrist and attached to a sheep dog. 
 She wears a blue gown and white bodice, 
 trimmed with pink, and her straw hat lies beside 
 
 25. EVENING. 
 
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 her. A youth with loose red coat has come 
 stealthily near, and is touching the girl's cheek 
 with a straw. The leafage above is specially 
 well delineated by Boucher, the high overhang- 
 ing branches coming harmoniously across the 
 deep blue of the evening sky. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 5. 
 
 26. A GARDEN SCENE. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE PATER. 
 Canvas 17 x 22% inches. 
 Lent by C. T. D. CREWS, ESQ. 
 
 T 1 ERE a group of six persons are disposed 
 
 ^ ^ on some rising ground at the foot of some 
 trees. The red of the chief lady's bodice, and 
 the costume, with its black hat, of the courtier 
 with whom she is coquetting, are in delightful 
 harmony with the pale purple robe and deep blue 
 gown of the gentlemen in brown. Two children 
 are a little distance away on the left, while on the 
 right a glimpse of a beautiful landscape is given, 
 in which other figures are faintly indicated. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 136. 
 
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 27. LA SERVANTE 
 JUSTIFI^E. 
 
 By NICOLAS LANCRET. 
 Copper II X 14 inches. 
 Lent by M. RUDOLPHE KANN. 
 
 Engraved by NICOLAS DE LARMESSIN. 
 
 A SCENE from the conte by La Fontaine. 
 
 The girl in pretty costume of blue and 
 yellow has slipped to the ground, spilling the 
 roses from her white apron, and the gentleman 
 in blue is bending over her. The scene is in a 
 garden and near the balustrade of a staircase, 
 where stands a large vase. A little distance 
 away, the house is seen, from a window of which 
 a woman is observing the pair. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 31. 
 
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 28. LA FOIRE DE ST. 
 CLOUD (The Fair at St. 
 Cloud). 
 
 By JEAN HONORS FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 27 x 34^ inches. 
 
 Lent by M. LEOPOLD GOLDSCHMIDT. 
 
 A MONG the stately forest trees of St. Cloud, 
 
 where leafage and vegetation and blos- 
 soming flowers seem running wild, a multitude of 
 people are gathered, the prevailing colours of 
 their costumes being cream and pink, which is 
 thrown into full effect by the misty gray back- 
 ground of leafage. At a short, square tent-like 
 structure, with red and white stripes, figures in 
 clownish garb are offering some amusement to 
 the people. A little distance away on the left 
 other groups are seen beside a fountain, whose 
 rising water shimmers in the sunlight. The 
 effect is that of a hot summer afternoon, and, as 
 Lady Dilke observes of this beautiful work, " the 
 very dust raised by the stir of the crowd glints 
 gold beneath the trees, as if in actual sunlight."* 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 102. 
 
 * " French Painters of the XVIIIth century." By Lady Dilke, 
 p. 66. 
 
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 29. A PASTORAL. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE HUET. 
 
 Canvas 14 x 12 inches. 
 
 Lent by GEORGE HARLAND-PECK, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's Hfe see No. 14. 
 
 30. FETE CHAMPETRE. 
 
 ERE a party of six persons are arranged 
 
 near a fountain, around which are thickly- 
 leaved trees. A courtier and his lady are a little 
 distance away on the right coquetting, while a 
 child leaning on a bank is in the immediate fore- 
 ground on the left. One of the chief figures is a 
 gentleman in red, playing a guitar, to which a 
 lady in light-coloured satin is listening. The 
 dress of the lady on her right brings an effective 
 piece of blue into the picture. As in the com- 
 panion picture, a glimpse over a beautiful piece 
 of country is given, between the trees. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 136. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE PATER. 
 Canvas 17 x 22 }4 inches. 
 Lent by C. T. D. CREWS, ESQ. 
 
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 31. LES OIES DU FRERE 
 PHILLIP (The Geese of 
 Brother Phillip). 
 
 By NICOLAS LANCRET. 
 Copper II X 14 inches. 
 Lent by M. RUDOLPHE KANN. 
 
 Engraved by NICOLAS DE LARMESSIN. 
 
 A SCENE from the conte by La Fontaine. 
 This exquisite example shows Brother 
 Phillip emerging from the Cloisters, and in the 
 act of remonstrating with the youth in red coat 
 who is saluting the two ladies standing on the 
 left These, in elegant attire, and attended by a 
 coloured servant, have captivated his attention. 
 The scene is in a tranquil landscape, with softly 
 clouded sky. 
 
 Nicolas Lancret. Born 1690. Died 1743. 
 Genre painter. Pupil of Pierre D'Ulin and Gillot, 
 but coming under the influence of Watteau, his 
 works, thereafter, bore great resemblance to those 
 of that graceful and accomplished master, to the 
 extent not unfrequently of their being mistaken for 
 his; but the poetic warmth and deliberate charm of 
 Watteau and his beauty of line and adroit arrange- 
 ment is not so pronounced in Lancref s work, whose 
 
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 productions, though often extremely captivating, are 
 those of a disciple rather than those of a master. 
 Yet much of his work is very beautiful, and ex- 
 pressive of the lightness of the age in which he lived, 
 its gallantries and frivolities, and scenes of pastoral 
 gaiety. He painted several portraits, notably of " La 
 Camargo " and " La Solle." 
 
 32. THE COMTESSE DE 
 NEUBOURG AND 
 HER DAUGHTER. 
 
 By JEAN MARC NATTIER. 
 Canvas 58 x 44 inches. 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 Signed and dated 1 749. 
 
 'T^ HE Countess de Neubourg is seated at her 
 
 1 toilette-table, arranging an ornament of 
 feathers and flowers for the head of her daughter, 
 who, standing at her side, holds a casket of 
 jewels in her hand. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 6. 
 
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 33. CHERCHE 
 
 MOUCHOIR (Find the 
 
 HE game of hide the handkerchief is not 
 
 1 being played fairly by the little maiden 
 on the right, who, in her red and black striped 
 skirt and blue bodice, is stealing a glance through 
 her fingers, which the youth in pale pink has de- 
 tected as he is about to hide the handkerchief 
 with the three mischievous little girls on the left. 
 The scene is in a park, and the background is 
 simply foliage and clouded sky. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 31. 
 
 34. HEAD OF A GIRL. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTS GREUZE. 
 Canvas 16 x 13 inches. 
 Lent by MARTIN H. COLNAGHI, ESQ. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 107. 
 
 Handkerchief). 
 
 By NICOLAS LANCRET. 
 
 Canvas, oval, 24^ x 21 }4 inches. 
 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
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 35. THE DANCE. 
 
 By NICOLAS LANCRET. 
 Canvas 29 x 34 inches. 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 31. 
 
 36. PORTRAIT OF 
 VOLTAIRE. 
 
 By NICHOLAS DE LARGILLIERE. 
 Canvas 17 x 14^ inches. 
 Lent by REV. W. J. DAWSON. 
 
 FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOL- 
 TAIRE, historian, philosopher, and 
 essayist; born 1694, died 1778. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 21. 
 
 37. LA BALANCOIRE 
 (The See-Saw). 
 
 By NICOLAS LANCRET. 
 
 Canvas, oval, 24^ x 21^ inches. 
 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 31. 
 
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 38. PORTRAIT OF A 
 LADY. 
 
 By JEAN MARC NATTIER. 
 Canvas 16 x I2j^ inches. 
 Lent by M. EDMOND SIMON. 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 6. 
 
 HIS beautiful example of Boucher's decora- 
 
 1 tive ait shows a young girl reclining on 
 the grass at the base of a statue, with garments 
 about her in rich folds of blue, yellow, and white, 
 and gracefully holding a rose. As her eyes fall 
 in thoughtfulness at what she is hearing, the 
 fortune-teller, with long red robe, bends over her, 
 whispering words into her ear, which may well 
 be interpreted by the two circling figures in the 
 air above, one of whom is threatening her with 
 his amorous dart The disposition of these two 
 little nude figures among the stately trees is 
 admirable. The foreground is somewhat in 
 shadow, but on the part where the light falls 
 apples and grapes have been thrown. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 5. 
 
 39. THE FORTUNE 
 
 TELLER. 
 
 By FRANCOIS BOUCHER. 
 Canvas 136^ x J2}i inches. 
 Lent by MADAME RIDGWAY. 
 
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 40. COMEDIENS 
 
 ITALIENS (Italian 
 Comedians). 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Canvas 24 x 29 inches. 
 Lent by LORD IVEAGH, K.P. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Thomas Barmg, 
 Esq., M.P. 
 
 Antoine Watteau. Bom at Valenciennes, 1684. 
 Died at Nogent-sur-Marne, 17 21. Son of a tiler. 
 His education was of the slightest, and without 
 money or resources of any kind he made his way to 
 Paris. Studied there under Gillot and with the de- 
 corative painter Claude Audran, copying also inces- 
 santly the chief paintings of Rubens and Paolo 
 Veronese. His great reputation rests on his un- 
 rivalled grace in depicting the life of the early 
 portion of the eighteenth century, in pastoral scenes 
 or in scenes where the pleasures of the upper circles 
 are portrayed either in music, dance, or festive 
 gathering, investing them all with a subtle charm the 
 originality of which had been up to then unknown in 
 art, " an airy nothing," which as Mrs. Stranahan 
 observes in her work upon French art, "gives to 
 woman her coquetry and attraction, a charm far 
 above that of physical beauty." He constantly 
 erased and repainted his pictures, and it was only 
 by decisive measures that those who bought his 
 
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 works could get them out of his hands. It was in 
 1 721 that he painted the celebrated signboard for 
 the shop of the dealer Gersaint, with whom he 
 resided. It was afterwards cut into two halves, 
 which were acquired in Paris at different times and 
 from different persons, by the agents of Frederick 
 the Great, of Prussia, and are both now in the Old 
 Palace at Berlin. In Prussia, too, is his engraved 
 masterpiece " I'Embarquement pour Cythere," of 
 which the Louvre possesses only another version. 
 Examples of Watteau are rare, and the National 
 Gallery is without one. 
 
 41. HEAD OF A BOY. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE. 
 
 Canvas ISJ4 x inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR FREDERICK COOK, BART., M.P. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 107. 
 
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 42. A GARDEN PARTY. 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Canvas 39 x 33 inches. 
 Lent by CHARLES BAILEY, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 40. 
 
 43. THE CHARMS OF 
 VIRTUE, or Virtue 
 rewarded. 
 
 By EDWARD PENNY, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 50 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by CHARLES WELD-BLUNDELL, ESQ. 
 
 Edward Penny was bom at Knutsford, in 
 Cheshire, in 17 14; died at Chiswick in 1791; pupil 
 of Hudson; an original member of the Royal 
 Academy, at its foundation, and their first Professor 
 of Painting. His chief work was small portraits in 
 oil, which were greatly admired; he also executed 
 historical and sentimental pictures, among them 
 " The Death of General Wolfe." 
 
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 44. VAL D'ARRIA, 
 near Rome. 
 
 By RICHARD WILSON, R.A. 
 Canvas ig)4 x 30 inches. 
 Lent by MRS. RICHARD FORD. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 47. 
 
 45. PORTRAIT OF A 
 LADY. 
 
 By SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. 
 
 Canvas 29 x 26^ inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR FREDERICK COOK, BART., M.P. 
 
 For notice of the painter's Hfe see No. 86. 
 
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 46. GENERAL HONY- 
 WOOD. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 129 x 118 inches. 
 
 Lent by MESSRS. T. AGNEW & SONS. 
 
 FULL-LENGTH, life-size figure of General 
 Honywood, seated on a bay horse, and ad- 
 vancing to the left in a richly wooded land- 
 scape. He wears a scarlet coat, ornamented 
 with gold work. His sword is unsheathed in 
 his right hand, and with the left he curbs his 
 horse. 
 
 Philip Honywood, of Marks Hall, Essex, was 
 born in 1710. He became a General of His 
 Majesty*s forces, Colonel of the 3rd Royal 
 Dragoon Guards, Governor of the town and 
 citadel of Kingston-upon-Hull, and was a Mem- 
 ber of Parliament for thirty-one years, for the 
 borough of Appleby, in Westmorland. He 
 married Elizabeth Wastell. He died 1785. 
 
 " The large library at Marks Hall was pur- 
 posely built for the life-size picture of General 
 Honywood, toward the close of the eighteenth 
 century. There are many portraits in this room, 
 but the most notable is that of General Hony- 
 wood on his charger, by Gainsborough ; the 
 landscape is a part of the park." — Nasted's His- 
 tory of the County of Kent (1782). 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
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 47. LAKE OF NEMI. 
 
 By RICHARD WILSON, R.A. 
 Canvas 21 x 30 inches. 
 Lent by MRS. RICHARD FORD. 
 Etched by THOMAS HASTINGS. 
 
 Richard Wilson, r.a., the son of a clergyman, 
 was bom at Pinegas, Montgomeryshire, in 17 13. In 
 1729, as he showed great talent, he was sent to 
 London, where he studied under Thomas Wright, an 
 obscure portrait painter. After some years in Lon- 
 don he went to Italy, where he continued to paint 
 portraits, until, by the advice of Zuccarelli and 
 Vernet, he became a landscape painter. In 1755 
 he returned to London, and so distinguished 
 himself in composition and illumination of scenes 
 which had ever a classic spirit, that few land- 
 scape painters have excelled him, though for 
 long he suffered from poverty and lack of appre- 
 ciation. Towards the close of his life, when his 
 circumstances had improved, the death of his brother 
 brought him into possession of a small estate at 
 Llanberis, North Wales, and there he died in 1782. 
 
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 48. PORTRAIT OF 
 
 SARAH MALCOLM. 
 
 By WILLIAM HOGARTH. 
 Canvas 22x18 inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR FREDERICK COOK, BART., M.P. 
 
 SARAH MALCOLM, one of the most no- 
 torious women of her day. She was exe- 
 cuted for murder on Wednesday, March 7th, 
 1732, on a gibbet which had been erected oppo- 
 site Mitre Court, and the crowd was so great that 
 a Mrs. Strangeways, who Hved in Fleet Street, 
 near Sergeant's Inn, it is recorded, crossed the 
 street from her own house to a Mrs. Coulthurst, 
 on the opposite side of the way, on the heads 
 and shoulders of the mob. 
 
 Formerly in the Collections of Lord Mulgrave, 
 General Phipps, and Mr. J. H. Anderdon. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 53. 
 
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 49. PROFLIGACY 
 PUNISHED. 
 
 By EDWARD PENNY, R.A. 
 Canvas 50 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by CHARLES WELD-BLUNDELL, ESQ. 
 For notice of the painter's Hfe see No. 43. 
 
 50. LANDSCAPE. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 Canvas 36 x 63 inches. 
 Lent by R. W. HUDSON, ESQ. 
 Painted 1747-8. 
 
 Thomas Gainsborough was bom at Sudbury, in 
 Suffolk, in 1727. At an early age he showed an 
 aptitude for art, and spent his time in sketching, and 
 in rambling about the woods and lanes around his 
 home. When fourteen years of age he came to 
 London, and for several years studied art. Before he 
 was nineteen he married Miss Margaret Burr, a 
 young lady with an annuity of £200 a year, the 
 memory of whose extraordinary beauty is still, says 
 Fulcher, preserved in Sudbury. For a period of 
 
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 GALLERY 1. 
 
 twelve years they lived at Ipswich, removing in 1759 
 to Bath. On the foundation of the Royal Academy 
 in 1768, he became one of the thirty-six original 
 members, and in 1774 left Bath to reside in London. 
 He was much patronised by George III. At the 
 height of his popularity, when nearly all the great 
 men and celebrated women of the day were sitting 
 to him, commissions came in so quickly that he was 
 unable to keep up with the demand for his services. 
 Gainsborough was also a musician, and used to say 
 "he painted portraits for money, landscapes because 
 he loved them, and was a musician because he could 
 not help it." He died in 1788, of cancer, at the age 
 of sixty, and was buried, at his own request, in Kew 
 Churchyard. He was of a kind and generous dis- 
 position, and Northcote writes : "He was a natural 
 gentleman, and, with all his simplicity, had wit." 
 His pictures are full of grace and beauty, and as a 
 landscape painter he is at the head of the English 
 school. 
 
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 51. PORTRAIT OF JOHN 
 KEMBLE. 
 
 By SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. 
 Canvas 30 x 25 inches. Painted 1790. 
 Lent by HUGH P. LANE, ESQ. 
 
 HE famous actor was born 1757 and died 
 1823. 
 
 Sir Thomas Lawrence was born at Bristol, 1769. 
 He early distinguished himself in drawing. His first 
 efforts which attracted notice were portraits in chalk 
 of some of the customers of his father, who was 
 landlord of an Inn at Devizes. In his seventeenth 
 year he commenced oil painting, and twelve months 
 afterwards settled in London and entered the Royal 
 Academy as a student. At twenty-one he was 
 elected an Associate of the Academy, and, after the 
 death of Reynolds, in 1792, he succeeded him as 
 painter to the King, whose portrait he painted, 
 together with the Queen's, when he was in his 
 twenty-third year. At the age of twenty-five he 
 was elected a Royal Academician. He was knighted 
 in 18 1 5, and in 1820 was elected President of the 
 Academy in succession to Benjamin West. From 
 the age of twenty-two until his death, at the age of 
 sixty-one, his career as a portrait painter was un- 
 rivalled. He contributed during that time 311 
 pictures to the Royal Academy exhibitions. He 
 died 1830. The present portrait clearly exhibits 
 the influence of Reynolds. 
 
GA LLERY II. 
 
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 52. LANDSCAPE AND 
 CATTLE. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 Canvas 23 x 44 inches. 
 Lent by R. W. HUDSON, ESQ. 
 Painted 1775. 
 
 For notice of the painter's Hfe see No. 50. 
 
 53. A CONVERSATION 
 PIECE (Probably a Portrait 
 Group). 
 
 By WILLIAM HOGARTH. 
 
 Canvas 21 }4 x 2g)4 inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR FREDERICK COOK, BART., M.P. 
 
 William Hogarth was bom in Ship Court, Old 
 Bailey, 1697. From his earliest days he had a pre- 
 dilection for art, and about 171 2 he was apprenticed 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 to a silversmith in Leicester Fields. After five years' 
 service he turned his attention to engraving. From 
 this he passed to prints for books, and in 1726 
 became known in his profession by his plates for 
 Butler's " Hudibras." About 1728 he turned his 
 attention to oil painting. In 1729 he ran away with 
 Sir James Thomhill's only daughter, and they were 
 married at Paddington Church. Five years later he 
 established his reputation as a painter of domestic 
 history by the series of " A Harlot's Progress." This 
 was quickly followed by " A Rake's Progress," and 
 by many other similar works illustrative of the times 
 he lived in. Owing to piratical imitations of these 
 two series, he obtained in 1735 an Act which vested 
 in artists an exclusive right in their own designs. In 
 1745 the six pictures of " The Marriage a la Mode " 
 were completed, and the engravings issued by con- 
 temporary line engravers. Most of his other compo- 
 sitions were engraved by himself. In " Marriage a la 
 Mode" his art culminated, and nowhere can there 
 be found a finer example of his own peculiar style. In 
 1756 he painted an altar-piece for the Church of St. 
 Mary, Redcliffe, at Bristol, and the following year 
 was appointed Serjeant Painter to the King. He 
 died at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1764, and 
 was buried in Chiswick Churchyard, where a monu- 
 ment was erected by his friends, and the epitaph on 
 it written by Garrick. 
 
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 54. THE CARD 
 SHARPERS. 
 
 By the REV. WILLIAM PETERS, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 33 x 38 inches. 
 
 Lent by LEOPOLD HIRSCH, ESQ. 
 
 The Reverend Matthew William Peters, r.a., 
 born in the Isle of Wight during the first half of the 
 eighteenth century; died in 1814 at Brasted Place, 
 in Kent. Became the pupil of Robert West in the 
 School of Design at Dublin, where his parents had 
 removed, and where his father was in the Customs. 
 Was educated for the Church, and held the posts of 
 Chaplain to the Prince Regent and Prebendary of 
 Lincoln. His pictures were very popular, and his 
 portraits show grace and ability. He was patronized 
 by the nobility, and in 1777 became a Royal Acade- 
 mician, retiring in 1790. He is best known by the 
 prints from his pictures, engraved by Bartolozzi, 
 J. R. Smith, and others. 
 
 55. Mrs. YATES. 
 
 By GEORGE ROMNEY. 
 Canvas 21}^ x ig)4 inches. 
 Lent by LORD LLANGATTOCK. 
 
 BUST portrait ; life-size, turned to the left 
 and looking upwards ; slightly powdered 
 hair over which is a thin white veil ; white dress 
 and dark background. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 79. 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 56. PORTRAIT OF 
 
 MRS. PRITCHARD. 
 
 By JOSEPH HIGHMORE. 
 
 Canvas 50 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ. 
 
 Joseph Highmore, bom in London, 1692; died 
 at Canterbury, 1780; historical and portrait painter. 
 The son of a coal merchant, in early life he was 
 articled to a lawyer, and employed his leisure in 
 drawing. He attracted the attention of Sir Godfrey 
 Kneller, and afterwards was employed by Pine to 
 make the drawings for his prints of the Knights of 
 the Bath. In 1732 he visited the Continent and at 
 Antwerp studied his favourite master, Rubens. His 
 chief historical pictures are " Hagar and Ishmael," 
 presented by him to the Foundling Hospital, " The 
 Good Samaritan," The Finding of Moses," etc. In 
 1742 he painted the portraits of the Prince and 
 Princess of Wales. He retired from his profession 
 in 1 76 1. His works have often been taken for the 
 works of Hogarth, which they resemble in several 
 ways, particularly in the general tone of colour. 
 
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 57. THE STAFFORD 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 By GEORGE ROMNEY. 
 
 Canvas 80 x 91 inches. 
 
 Lent by the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND. 
 
 r70UR pretty children dancing in a landscape 
 
 1 to the music of the tambourine, played by 
 an elder child. 
 
 The girl in the white dress and red drapery, 
 with the tambourine is Lady Anne Leveson- 
 Gower, third daughter of the Marquis of 
 Stafford, and she became the wife of the 
 Hon. and Rev. Venables Vernon Harcourt, 
 Archbishop of York. The children dancing 
 are her three step-sisters and her step-brother; 
 the girl in red is Lady Georgiana Augusta, 
 afterwards Lady Georgiana Eliot; the one, 
 full face, in claret-coloured garment is Lady 
 Charlotte Sophia, afterwards Duchess of Beau- 
 fort ; and the child furthest to the left, in green 
 and deep orange drapery, is Lady Susan, after- 
 wards Countess of Harrowby. The step-brother, 
 in white, is Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, 
 afterwards the first Earl Granville, and H.M. 
 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 
 
 Engraved in Mezzotint by T. G. APPLETON, 
 and published by Messrs. Henry Graves & Co., 
 
 Pall Mali 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 79. 
 
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 58. FRANCES, COUNTESS 
 OF TYRCONNELL, 
 
 By SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. 
 
 Canvas 50 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by the DUKE OF RUTLAND, K.G. 
 
 C RANGES MANNERS, eldest daughter of 
 John, Marquis of Granby, son of the third 
 Duke of Rutland, was born 1753, and married at 
 the age of nineteen, George, second Eajrl of Tyr- 
 connell, from whom five years later she was 
 divorced, when she became the wife of the Hon. 
 Philip Leslie Anstruther, second son of the 
 Baroness Newark. She died 1792. 
 
 Three-quarter length figure, seated facing the 
 left, with her left hand to her face, and her right 
 resting in her lap. She wears a white dress, 
 trimmed with gold, and a high coiffure, with 
 white feather. The background is composed of 
 curtains on the left, and a landscape on the right 
 
 Engraved in mezzotint by THOMAS WATSON. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 86. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
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 59. THE HON. Mrs. C. J. 
 FOX. 
 
 ^ the wife, first of Mr. Armstead, and second, 
 in 1 794, of the famous statesman, Charles James 
 Fox. She died in 1842. 
 
 Half-length figure, life-size, looking to the 
 right. She wears a large black hat, with a white 
 plume. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Lady Holland. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 86. 
 
 By RICHARD WILSON, R.A. 
 Canvas I2}4 x ^9^4 inches. 
 Lent by CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ. 
 Dated 17 10. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Lord North- 
 wick, Col. H. Bailey, and Mr. Josiah Bond. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 47. 
 
 By SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. 
 Canvas 30 x 25 inches. 
 Lent by the HON. STEPHEN POWYS. 
 Painted probably 1784. 
 
 BRIDGET BANE became 
 
 60. CICERO'S VILLA. 
 
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 61. THE SCHOOL 
 MISTRESS. 
 
 By JOHN OPIE, R.A. 
 Canvas 39 x 49 inches. 
 Lent by LADY WANTAGE. 
 
 AN aged woman, half-length, life-size, is 
 seated at a table with five boys around 
 her, whom she is teaching. A large book is open 
 before her, and one of the boys, who, like herself, 
 is in a strong light, is reading his lesson from a 
 smaller book, the other four boys being in 
 shadow in the background. 
 
 Formerly in the Collections of Mr. G. Watson 
 Taylor, M.P., and Mr. Jesse Watts Phillips. 
 
 Engraved by JOHN YOUNG and VALENTINE 
 GREEN, under the title of " The School." 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 66. 
 
 62. LANDSCAPE. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 
 Canvas I9j^ x 16 inches. 
 
 Lent by MRS. STEPHENSON CLARKE. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
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 63. LANDSCAPE (Snow 
 Scene). 
 
 By GEORGE MORLAND. 
 Canvas 10 x 12 inches. 
 Lent by MARTIN H. COLNAGHI, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 76. 
 
 64. PORTRAIT OF A 
 LADY. 
 
 By GEORGE ROMNEY. 
 Canvas 30 x 25 inches. 
 Lent by HUGH P. LANE, ESQ. 
 
 HALF-LENGTH, life-size, looking slightly 
 to the right ; powdered hair ; large red 
 hat, and white muslin dress, open at the neck ; 
 dark leafy background. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 79. 
 
 65. EARLY LANDSCAPE. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 9 x 12^ inches. 
 
 Lent by MARTIN H. COLNAGHL 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
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 66. JULIET. 
 
 By JOHN OPIE, R.A. 
 Canvas 22 x 17 inches. 
 
 Lent by LIEUT.-COL. SIR audley neeld, 
 BART., M.P. 
 
 John Opie, r.a., the son of a carpenter, was bom 
 near Truro, in 1761. Early in Hfe he attracted the 
 attention of Dr. Wolcott (Peter Pindar), who resided 
 at Truro, and under whose auspices, in 1780, he 
 came to London and was introduced to Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds. Previously he had been noted throughout 
 Cornwall for his portrait painting, and when he came 
 to London he was known as the " Cornish genius," 
 and commissions crowded upon him. He became a 
 member of the Academy in 1787. In 1805 he was 
 Professor of Painting, and in 1807 delivered four of 
 his lectures at Somerset House. He died in 1807, 
 and was buried near Sir Joshua Reynolds in St. 
 Paul's Cathedral. He was twice married, his second 
 wife being the accomplished Amelia Opie, the then 
 popular novelist and lyric writer. Several of his 
 pictures, viz., " The Death of Rizzio," and " The 
 Murder of James I of Scotland," belong to the per- 
 manent collection of pictures at Guildhall. 
 
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 67. CROSSING THE FORD. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 13^ x 14^ inches. 
 
 Lent by MARTIN H. COLNAGHI, ESQ. 
 
 A STREAM which is being forded has, on the 
 left, a high bank, with trees, and on the 
 right level meadows, which stretch away into the 
 blue distance. A man, riding a donkey, is driv- 
 ing cattle and sheep over the ford. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of George Caven- 
 dish Bentinck, Esq., M.P. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
 68. LANDSCAPE. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 16 x 19 inches. 
 
 Lent by MRS. MARTIN COLNAGHL 
 
 A HILLY landscape. A stream with rather 
 steep banks is crossed in the foreground 
 by a wooden bridge, over which a cowherd is 
 driving his cows. A wooded dell is beyond, and 
 on the right the tower of a church is seen among 
 the trees. The hills rise high beyond it, and are 
 shadowed by a dark cloud, while the distance on 
 the left is lit by a bright golden gleam. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
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 69. A HILLY LANDSCAPE. 
 
 By GEORGE MORLAND. 
 
 Panel 10 x 12 inches. 
 
 Lent by C. T. D. CREWS, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's Hfe see No. 76. 
 
 70, LADY HAMILTON as a 
 Bacchante. 
 
 By GEORGE ROMNEY. 
 Canvas 50 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by TANKERVILLE CHAMBERLAYNE, ESQ., 
 
 Formerly in the possession of Sir William 
 
 Hamilton, for whom it was painted. 
 Engraved by C. KNIGHT. 
 
 HREE-QUARTER length figure; Hfe- 
 
 1 size. She is passing swiftly towards the 
 left, and casting a captivating glance at the spec- 
 tator; her auburn hair, in which is a dash of 
 green ribbon, and the rich colour of her cheeks 
 and mouth, lend great beauty to the picture, 
 which is increased by the rich red of the garment 
 she is wearing. Her hands are thrown behin4 
 
 M.P. 
 
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 her ; the right idly holding a bit of blue ribbon 
 which is thrown round the horns of a goat. A 
 dog, as joyous as she, springs up at her as she 
 passes. To a background of tree and sky is 
 added an effective line of distant blue hill. 
 
 Emma Lyon, afterwards Lady Hamilton, was 
 born at Denhall, Cheshire, in 1764. Her 
 father was a labourer, who died when she 
 was quite a child, and she removed with her 
 mother to Hawarden, where her relatives lived, 
 who were colliers. Tradition says she used to 
 assist her mother in carrying coals about on 
 donkey-pcinniers. She was afterwards engaged 
 as a nursery-maid in a surgeon's family in 
 Hawarden, and at sixteen years of age migrated 
 to London and took a similar situation in the 
 house of a physician at Blackfriars. Her beauty 
 attracted the notice of a lady of fashion, who 
 engaged her as a humble companion, and while 
 with her she acquired the rudiments of the 
 accomplishments for which she was subsequently 
 famous. She shortly after formed a liaison with 
 the Hon. Chcirles Greville, who exerted himself 
 to develop her intellectual and artistic gifts. He 
 introduced her to Romney, on whom her beauty 
 made a deep impression. Her social and artistic 
 education was completed under Mr. Greville's 
 uncle, Sir William Hamilton, whose main object 
 was to avert her marriage with his nephew, but 
 
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 who shortly afterwards married her himself and 
 took her with him to Naples, where he wats 
 English Minister. Here Lady Hamilton acquired 
 and retained a powerful influence over the Queen 
 of Naples, and exerted it with success for the 
 promotion of British interests. Later on the 
 well-known intimacy sprang up between Lady 
 Hamilton and Nelson. In a codicil to his will, 
 executed immediately before Trafalgar, Nelson 
 wrote, " I leave Emma, Lady Hamilton, a legacy 
 to my King and country," but neither King nor 
 country paid any attention to the bequest, and 
 after Nelson's death her affairs fell into irretriev- 
 able confusion. In 1813 she was confined as a 
 prisoner for debt in the King's Bench. Released 
 by the kindness of an Alderman of London, she 
 fled with Nelson's daughter, Horatia, to Calais, 
 where, after eighteen months of poverty, she 
 died at the age of fifty. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 79. 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
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 71. LANDSCAPE AND 
 CATTLE. 
 
 By JULIUS CAESAR IBBETSON. 
 Canvas 14 x 17 inches. 
 
 Lent by MRS. MARTIN COLNAGHL 
 
 A HERD of cows is in the foreground, some 
 of them drinking in a shadowed pool. A 
 grey stone mill is a short distance away, and 
 beyond, on the left, is a church with a tall spire 
 rising into the rich grey of a heavily clouded 
 sky ; to the right the clouds are sunlit This is 
 an exceptional example of Ibbetson, and in its 
 work throughout rivals the best of the Dutch 
 masters of this class of work, so harmonious is 3: 
 in its colouring, and so rich in its light and shade. 
 
 72. LANDSCAPE AND 
 CATTLE. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 14 x 12 inches. 
 
 Lent by MARTIN H. COLNAGHL 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 73. GUARDIAN ANGEL. 
 
 By SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A 
 Canvas 22 x 25 inches. 
 Lent by the DUKE OF LEEDS. 
 
 OMALL half-length figures of an infant child 
 
 ^ in the arms of an elder child ; an angel 
 encircles both the children with her arms. 
 
 Engraved in Mezzotint by C. H. HODGES. 1 786. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 86. 
 
 By the REV. WILLIAM PETERS, R.A. 
 Panel 10 x 12 inches. 
 Lent by J. P. heseltine, ESQ. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of the Earl of 
 Lonsdale. 
 
 Engraved by J. R. SMITH. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 54. 
 
 74. LYDIA. 
 
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 75. GIRL WITH A 
 GOLDFINCH. 
 
 By SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. 
 Canvas, oval, 30 x 24^ inches. 
 
 Lent by T. HUMPHRY WARD, ESQ. 
 
 THE girl seated, in a white dress with a pink 
 sash, is resting her head on her right arm. 
 A goldfinch is perched on her left shoulder, and 
 her left hand lies in her lap. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 86. 
 
 76. LANDSCAPE, WITH 
 GIPSIES. 
 
 By GEORGE MORLAND. 
 
 Panel 10 x 12 inches. 
 
 Lent by MRS. MARTIN COLNAGHI. 
 
 George Morland, the son of H. R. Morland, a 
 portrait painter and engraver, was born in 1763, and 
 many stories are told of the boy's early precocity. 
 His father gave him a good education, but was a 
 
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 severe man, and turned to his own advantage the 
 talents of his son. At the end of his apprenticeship 
 he left his father's house, and took a lodging on his 
 own account, but falling into idle and dissolute 
 habits, he became the prey of his landlord, a picture 
 dealer. Being freed at last, he went to Margate, 
 where he painted miniatures for a time, and after- 
 wards to France. Returning to London in 1785, he 
 married the sister of William Ward, the engraver, 
 but he seems never to have been free of pressing 
 difficulties, and continually changed his abode. 
 Many of his best works were painted in the King's 
 Bench prison, but in spite of all that has been said 
 of his dissipations, he produced a number of good 
 works during his short term of life. He died at the 
 age of forty-two, in 1804. As a painter of domestic 
 and animal life he attained to great popularity during 
 his lifetime, and large sums were given for his pic- 
 tures and his work is still highly esteemed. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Dr. Franks. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
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 77. THE COTTAGE GIRL. 
 
 HE is in tattered peasant garments, and 
 
 ^ carries in one hand a heavy earthenware 
 jug, and in the other a little fluffy puppy dog. 
 Her bare feet and childlike demeanour are very 
 suggestive of the simplicity of English country 
 life. Deep blue distance is seen on the right, 
 while trees rise on the left, and the whole picture 
 is dignified by the broad masses of sunlit clouds, 
 which form the main portion of the background. 
 
 Purchased from the artist by Sir Francis 
 Basset, afterwards Earl of Dunstanville. 
 
 Exhibited in 18 14 at the British Institution as 
 " A Girl Going to the Well." 
 
 Engraved in 1806 by JOHN WHESSELL. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 Canvas 70 x 50 inches. 
 
 Painted about i;87. 
 
 Lent by A. F. BASSET, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 78. Mrs. PEARSON AT 
 THE AGE OF 
 EIGHTEEN. 
 
 By JOHN HOPPNER, R.A. 
 Canvas 30 x 25 inches. 
 Lent by CAPTAIN PEARSON. 
 
 lANE ELIZABETH MATILDA, eldest 
 J daughter of Lieut-Col. George Philip 
 Hooke, Advocate-General of Bengal, was bom 
 1784, and maxried at the age of eighteen, John 
 Pearson, Esq., of Tettenhall Wood, Stafford- 
 shire. She died 1833. 
 
 Half-length, turning toward the left, but 
 glancing at the spectator. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 84. 
 
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 79. LADY HAMILTON. 
 
 By GEORGE ROMNEY. 
 Canvas 46 x 36 inches. 
 
 Lent by LIEUT.-COL. SIR AUDLEY NEELD, 
 BART., M.P. 
 
 ^HREE-QUARTER length figure, life-size, 
 
 1 seated in pensive attitude on a bank by 
 the sea. She is wearing a white dress, with a 
 blue sash, and a large straw hat. Her hands 
 are together, and her eyes cast down. 
 
 Engraved in mezzotint by H. T. GREENHEAD, 
 and published by Messrs. Henry Graves and 
 Co., Pall Mall. 
 
 George Romney was bom at Dalton-in-Fumess, 
 Lancashire, 1734. His father was a cabinet maker 
 and brought Romney up to his own business, but 
 the son showed so decided an ability for drawing 
 that he was placed, at the age of nineteen, with a 
 portrait painter named Steele, then established at 
 Kendal. At the age of twenty-two Romney married, 
 and, in the following year, commenced painting on 
 his own account, and, at the age of twenty-eight, 
 came to London. In 1773 he visited Italy, and, 
 returning in 1775, took up his residence in Caven- 
 dish Square. From this time he divided the patron- 
 age of the famous and wealthy with Reynolds and 
 Gainsborough, but his wife and family never partici- 
 
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 GALLERY IL 
 
 pated in his success ; they remained at Kendal, and 
 during thirty-seven years he paid, it is said, only two 
 visits to them. It was in 1782, when in his forty- 
 eighth year, that he became acquainted with Lady 
 Hamilton. After her first appearance on his horizon 
 he seems to have relied almost solely on her for 
 inspiration. He was miserable when away from 
 " the divine lady," and reduced the number of his 
 sitters in order to devote more time to studies of 
 her beauty. At the age of sixty-five he broke up his 
 London establishment and rejoined his family at 
 Kendal, where he died in 1802. 
 
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 80. LADY BATE DUDLEY. 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 Canvas 88 x 58 inches. 
 Lent by LORD BURTON. 
 
 MARY, daughter of James White, Esq., of 
 Berra, in Somersetshire, and sister of Mrs. 
 Hartley, the celebrated actress, married the Rev. 
 Henry Bate, afterwards Sir Henry Bate Dudley, 
 Bart. 
 
 Full length, life-size figure, standing with her 
 feet crossed, leaning against the stone-work of a 
 terrace, her right hand falling lightly at her side. 
 Gathered about her bosom is white lace, which 
 descends over a dress of pale blue. A blue sash 
 is round her waist, with a bow of like colour 
 above, and round the rich brown hair a gossamer 
 veil is thrown. While the figure stands towards 
 the spectator, the fair face is almost in profile. 
 Above her are the broad leaves of a tree, and to 
 the left masses of foliage are seen in a landscape, 
 and the sky is lit with the tender effect of sunset 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 8 1. THE HON. EDWARD 
 BLIGH. 
 
 By SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. 
 Canvas 49 x 39 inches. 
 Lent by the EARL OF DARNLEY. 
 Painted 1787. 
 
 EDWARD BLIGH, second son of John, third 
 Earl of Darnley, was born 1769; received 
 the rank of General 1825 ; died unmarried 1840. 
 
 Three-quarter length figure, life-size, standing 
 to the left, the right arm hanging down, the left 
 on his hip. He wears a scarlet uniform, with a 
 black band round the neck. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 86. 
 
 82. Mrs. TRENCH. 
 
 By GEORGE ROMNEY, 
 
 Canvas 30 }4 x 25 inches. 
 
 Lent by M. CHARLES sedelmeyer. 
 
 MELESINA CHENEVIX was the only 
 child of the Rev. Philip Chenevix, son of 
 Richard, Bishop of Waterford. She married 
 first, in 1786, Colonel St. George, and second 
 
GALLERY 11. 
 
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 Richard Trench, Barrister-at-law. She was a lady 
 of great ability and culture, and was the mother 
 of Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop of 
 Dublin. 
 
 Half-length figure, life-size, seated to the left, 
 in white dress and white linen headdress. She 
 is holding a piece of music with both hands. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of the Rev. Freincis 
 Trench. 
 
 Engraved in the Memoirs of Mrs. TrencL 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 79. 
 
 HE two boys were members of the family of 
 
 -I the Aliens of Enrol. 
 Full length figures, life-size, wearing blue coats 
 with large buttons, yellow breeches and white 
 stockings, and striped waistcoats, from beneath 
 which seals are seen. The boy on the right is 
 thrusting with his cane at a hat which is held up 
 by his brother. 
 
 83. TWO BOYS. 
 
 By SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 59 x 46 inches. 
 
 Lent by LEOPOLD HIRSCH, ESQ. 
 
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 Sir Henry Raeburn was born in 1756, at Stock- 
 bridge, Edinburgh. His father was a manufacturer, 
 but both his parents died when he was Httle more 
 than six years old. Apprenticed at the age of fifteen 
 to a goldsmith, he showed such taste for drawing that 
 his master introduced him to a friend, named Martin, 
 who was a portrait painter, and subsequently, in the 
 kindness of his heart, released him for the rest of 
 the time of his apprenticeship. Raebum supported 
 himself by miniature painting, and as his knowledge 
 of art increased he applied himself entirely to the 
 study of painting. At the age of twenty-two he 
 married a lady of fortune, and came to London, 
 where he made the acquaintance of Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, who counselled him to go to Italy and 
 study the works of Michael Angelo; so he and his 
 wife departed for Rome, and after two years spent in 
 Italy, they returned to Scotland, and settled in Edin- 
 burgh, where he soon took the lead as a portrait 
 painter, and received full employment. For years 
 he reckoned among his sitters and friends the most 
 distinguished men of his time in Scotland, and may 
 be said to rank next to Reynolds and Gainsborough 
 as a portrait painter. In 18 14 he became an Asso- 
 ciate, and the year following a Royal Academician. 
 When George IV visited Scotland in 1822 he was 
 knighted, and appointed " His Majesty's Limner " for 
 Scotland. He died in 1823, in the sixty-eighth year 
 of his age. 
 
GALLERY 11. 
 
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 84. EDWARD, FIFTH 
 
 EARL OF DARNLEY. 
 
 By JOHN HOPPNER, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 50 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by the EARL OF DARNLEY. 
 
 EDWARD BLIGH was born 1795, and mar- 
 ried, in 1825, Emma Jane, daughter of Sir 
 Henry Parnell, Bart, afterwards Lord Congle- 
 ton, and was grandfather of the present Earl. 
 He was Member of Parliament for Canterbury 
 from 181 8 to 1830, and Lord Lieutenant of 
 County Meath, in Ireland. He succeeded his 
 father as fifth Earl of Darnley in 1831, and he 
 died at Cobham in 1835 from the effects of an 
 accident. 
 
 John Hoppner, r.a., bom in 1758, in White- 
 chapel, died in London, 1810. He was of German 
 parentage. He was especially successful with ladies 
 and children. Among his pictures is " The Comic 
 Muse " at Hampton Court, " Countess of Oxford " 
 at the National Gallery, and several at the National 
 Portrait Gallery. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 85. Mrs. RAIKES. 
 
 By GEORGE ROMNEY. 
 
 Canvas 50 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by LEOPOLD HIRSCH, ESQ. 
 
 CHARLOTTE, daughter of the Hon. Henry 
 Finch, married in 1774, Mr. Thomas 
 Raikes, Governor of the Bank of England. 
 
 Half-length figure, seated at a spinet playing. 
 She wears a white dress, with large ruffle ; pow- 
 dered hair and black sash. The background is 
 composed of a red curtain and landscape. 
 
 Formerly in the Collections of T. Horatio 
 Fitzroy, Esq., and C. J. Wertheimer, Esq. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 79. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
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 86. THE COUNTESS 
 
 TEMPLE AND HER 
 SON, afterwards the 
 First Duke of 
 Buckingham. 
 
 By SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. 
 
 Canvas 94 x 58 inches. 
 
 Lent by R. NEVILLE GRENVILLE, ESQ. 
 
 MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of Robert, 
 Earl Nugent, was born 1758, and married 
 in 1775, Lord Grenville, afterwards Earl Temple 
 and later Marquis of Buckingham. 
 
 Full length figure, life-size, walking in a park 
 towards the right. She wears a white dress, with 
 gold trimming, and a gauze scarf over her 
 shoulders. Her little son has hold of her dress, 
 and her left hand is placed at the back of his 
 head. 
 
 Painted in 1779, as "Lady Mary Grenville 
 and Master George." She became Countess 
 Temple during that year, and Marchioness of 
 Buckingham in 1784. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds was bom in 1723, and 
 educated at Plympton St. Mary, Plymouth. He 
 came to London at the age of eighteen as a pupil of 
 Hudson, and remained with this master less than two 
 years. Returning home, he painted many portraits at 
 low prices (seventy shiUings). In 1749 he sailed with 
 Commodore Keppel to the Mediterranean, and reach- 
 ing Rome stayed there for two years, directing his 
 studies chiefly to Michael Angelo's works in the 
 Sistine Chapel. Working there during bad weather, 
 he caught cold and became deaf, and was compelled 
 thereafter to use an ear-trumpet. He returned to 
 London in 1752, and settling soon after in St. Martin's 
 Lane, quickly rose in reputation. In 1753 he painted 
 the portrait of Commodore Keppel, which laid the 
 foundation of his fortune. He painted many heads 
 at this time at twelve guineas each. Henceforward 
 his progress was very rapid, and among his sitters 
 were many of the famous men and women of his time. 
 In 1768 he was knighted, and became first President 
 of the Royal Academy. From this time he worked 
 with almost uninterrupted assiduity and success, 
 producing many hundreds of pictures. He died 
 February 23rd, 1792. 
 
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 87. Mrs. HARDINGE. 
 
 By SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. 
 Canvas 50 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by the MARQUESS OF CLANRICARDE. • 
 Painted 1778. 
 
 q-^HREE-QUARTER length figure, life-size, 
 
 1 in a landscape. She is facing the spec- 
 tator and patting a dog, and wears a loose scarf 
 over her shoulder, and a headdress of ribbon and 
 pearls. 
 
 Engraved by THOMAS WATSON, i;8o. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 86. 
 
 88. THE COTTAGE DOOR. 
 
 THE old cottage on the right is on the bank 
 of a small stream and overhung by large 
 trees. A mother is standing at the door with her 
 child in her arms, and five other chilc^'-en are 
 
 By THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 
 Canvas 58 x 47^ inches. 
 
 Lent by the DUKE OF WESTMINSTER. 
 
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 grouped about her. The stream is crossed by a 
 rustic bridge. Distant country is seen through 
 the trees on the left and the sky is clouded. 
 
 Formerly in the possession of Mr. T. Harvey 
 (who purchased it from the artist), Mr. Cop- 
 pin, Sir John Leicester, and Lord de Tabley. 
 
 Engraved by JOHN SCOTT, in Britton's " Fine 
 
 Arts of the English School." 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 50. 
 
GALLERY III 
 
GA LLERY IIL 
 
 THE ROMANCE OF LOVE 
 AND YOUTH. 
 
 89. LA POURSUITE, or LA 
 VI^IRGE ET L' AMOUR 
 (Love and the Maiden). 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 126 x 85 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 J N this first picture of the Romance the maiden 
 ' is by the low parapet of a terrace overhung 
 with luxuriant foliage. She believes herself 
 
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 GALLERY III. 
 
 alone with her two little sisters, when suddenly 
 her lover appears from the masses of geraniums 
 on the left. Her first thought is to fly, but he 
 endeavours to propitiate her anger with a rose, 
 which he holds out to her with impetuous pas- 
 sionate gesture. 
 
 She is in white satin, with narrow blue ribbon 
 flowing across her bodice, and a thin fillet of 
 blue in her hair. 
 
 Claude Phillips has said of the landscape in 
 this picture, "it has still the delicate freshness 
 of late spring or early summer ; a veritable cas- 
 cade of flowers is in the foreground — roses, corn- 
 flowers, and field-poppies too, to give with their 
 note of vivid scarlet just that sting which is 
 wanted to correct what would otherwise be too 
 melting sweetness of the colour scheme." 
 
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 91 
 
 90. L' AMOUR VAINQUEUR 
 (Love Triumphant). 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 125 x 56 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 THIS canvas symbolises the victory of Love 
 over the maiden. The youth is gaining 
 the girl's heart and Cupid soars aloft waving his 
 torches in triumph. Four amorini cluster among 
 the clouds around him participating in his joy; 
 one holds out a victor's wreath, another dashes 
 his little hand against a cymbal, while two others 
 cling with kisses to one another. A fifth, sym- 
 bolising faithless love, is thrust out of this joyous 
 circle into the lurid glow of storm and tempest 
 beneath; anger in his eyes and a vengeful 
 dagger in his hand. 
 
GALLERY lU. 
 
 91. LE RENDEZVOUS (The 
 Meeting). 
 
 HE maiden is seated alone on the terrace 
 
 ^ at the base of a group of statuary, when 
 her lover appears above the marble parapet on 
 the right, to which he has ascended by a ladder. 
 Her evident alarm is not at his appearance, 
 which, we may take it, is by appointment, but 
 lest the inopportune intrusion of a third persion 
 should disturb the delight of their meeting. 
 
 Her dress here is not the same as in the open- 
 ing scene. It is of creamy-white satin, of richer 
 material, with an intenser blue about the waist 
 and on her shoes. A bunch of violet flowers is 
 in her bodice, and pink roses, with a dash of blue 
 ribbon, in her hair. The lover wears a crimson 
 tunic, and hesitates on the parapet as if in 
 momentary uncertainty as to the situation. 
 
 Claude Phillips's remark on this picture is: 
 " Whatever doubt might exist as to the identity 
 of the personages in La Poursuite (No. 89), 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 126 x 96 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
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 93 
 
 there could be none that the artist here has 
 given to his youthful pair, the features of 
 Madame du Barry and Louis le Bien-Aime, only 
 the aged roue has necessarily been plunged into 
 a Fontaine de Jouvence, and brought forth 
 younger by half a century or so than his real 
 age." 
 
 92. FLOWERS AND SKY 
 ARRANGED AS A 
 DECORATIVE PANEL. 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 125 x 16 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ, 
 
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 93. UAMOUR FOLIE 
 
 (Love's Folly). 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 59 x 50 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 UPID is here seen soaring aloft in a golden 
 haze, with his rattle as a sceptre and the 
 snowy birds of Venus, poising in pairs, about 
 him. There is nothing wanting to complete his 
 ecstasy — all is well with the youth and the 
 maiden, and their hearts, for the present at least, 
 may delight to the full in the folly of Love. 
 Engraved in colour by JEAN FRANCOIS 
 JANINET in 1789. 
 
 94. LES SOUVENIRS, OR 
 LA LETTRE D' AMOUR 
 (The Love-Letter). 
 
 By JEAN HONORS: FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 125 x 85 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 THE scene is a glade in a wood and the two 
 are here together, the maiden seated on a 
 low pedestal and the lover standing by embrac- 
 
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 ing her, while she reads the letter of love he has 
 sent her. Other letters with their seals broken 
 lie beside her testifying to the ardour with which 
 he has pursued her. On the right luxurious 
 creepers and flowers climb and cluster about a 
 marble base on which a statue is placed, and 
 here has been hung the girl's pink parasol. 
 Deep masses of foliage throw up the two young 
 figures and leafy branches wave overhead against 
 the softly clouded sky. 
 
 The girl here wears the same gown of white 
 satin, but the upper garment is pink, and through 
 her hair she has a narrow fillet of vivid red, 
 while pink bows are on her white shoes. The 
 youth wears, not the costume of " Le Rendez- 
 vous," but of " La Poursuite," but in place of the 
 yellow cloak, he has thrown on a blue one, and 
 wears gay bows at his knees and on his shoes. 
 
 Claude Phillips observes : " This piece shows, 
 with the rarest grace and charm, and also with 
 a certain reticence unusual in Fragonard, the 
 moment of pure happiness — of love satisfied, 
 but not yet sated. If not for ever, at least for 
 the one delightful hour, the souls of the lovers 
 are here united." 
 
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 GALLERY III. 
 
 95. L'AMOUR POURSUIV- 
 ANT UNE COLOMBE 
 (Love pursuing a Dove). 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 59 x 47 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 THIS may be taken to symbolise the period 
 when the anxious unrest of the lover is 
 over, and the simple delight of love reigns su- 
 preme. Having at the moment no more serious 
 occupation Cupid betakes himself to the innocent 
 chase of the dove, being himself chased, in turn, 
 by the dove's mate. There is no thought of 
 what the morrow may bring. Life and Love 
 beat in the present, and the present is as the 
 painter has here pictured it, still in the briUiant 
 aspect of full sunlight 
 
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 97 
 
 96. flowers and sky 
 Arranged as a 
 decorative panel. 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 125 x 16 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 97. L' AMOUR EN 
 SENTINELLE 
 (Love on the Watch). 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 59 x 47 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 HERE may be witnessed the period when 
 Love having triumphed over the maiden's 
 heart, is growing watchful and suspicious lest 
 aught should come to disturb or endanger the 
 delight that reigns. He is verily a sentinel and 
 ready armed with bow and dart to meet any 
 danger that threatens. 
 
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 GALLERY III. 
 
 98. U AM ANT COURONN^; 
 (The Lover Crowned). 
 
 HE climax of the drama is here reached, 
 
 ^ when the maiden bestows upon her lover 
 the crown which his passion and audacity have 
 won. Around her figure is hung a garland of 
 flowers. This is being eagerly caught by the 
 lover with one hand, while with the other he 
 seizes the hand of his mistress. In the fore- 
 ground on the right is a third figure engaged in 
 immortalising the happiness of his friend with 
 pencil and brush. 
 
 Here, again, is a variation in the girl's attire, 
 and the pink over-gown is chcinged for a rich 
 garment of old-gold, with a large purple bow at 
 her bosom. The youth, too, is in richer costume, 
 with crimson dress and bright red cloak. An 
 orange-tree to the right, rooted in its green box, 
 is rich in fruit, and striking in beauty and dig- 
 nity are the lofty trees that rise up majestically 
 into the white clouded sky towards the left, 
 while nothing could surpass the effect produced 
 
 By JEAN HONORS FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 125 x 95 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
GALLERY IIL 
 
 99 
 
 as an accessory to the decorative harmony, and 
 as significant of the happy cHmax of the charm- 
 ing episode, than the profusion of roses with 
 which the artist has enriched the picture on the 
 right 
 
 99. L'AMOUR ASSASSIN 
 (Love the Assassin). 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 59 x 50 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 "HpHIS might truly be styled L' Amour Assas- 
 ■1 siUy so ruthlessly does Cupid here attack 
 with his dagger the defenceless dove. . . The 
 surroundings are appropriately withering leaves 
 and flowers from which the freshness has died 
 away."* 
 
 Engraved in colour by JEAN FRANCOIS 
 JANINET in 1789. 
 
 * Claude Phillips. 
 
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100 
 
 GALLERY IIL 
 
 loo. FLOWERS AND SKY 
 ARRANGED AS A 
 DECORATIVE PANEL. 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 125 x 25 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 10 1. ABANDONNEE 
 (Forsaken). 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 125 x 77 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 T T ITHERTO the pictures have shown in 
 ^ * their leafage and flowers the freshness 
 of spring or of early summer. In the present 
 picture it is the autumn of the year which is 
 given, the yellowing woods and the falling 
 leaves. To this pass has the drama come. 
 Love has flown ; Love, who through all its pas- 
 sages was crowned, at last, has abandoned the 
 
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 maiden, and she is seen in these decaying woods, 
 the victim of sad and bitter thoughts. On the 
 summit of the column at which she is seated, 
 Cupid with fluttering wings and upHfted arms, 
 seems as if in the act of admonishing her. 
 
 Claude Phillips says, "It is impossible to 
 believe that this last canvas of the series was 
 destined to take its place at Louveciennes. 
 Courtier or no courtier, Fragonard would never 
 have dared to read the favourite, raised from the 
 very depths to the level of the throne, such a 
 lesson as this. 
 
 " It has been assumed that L'Abandonnee was 
 left unfinished by the artist, and it certainly 
 does not compare in elaboration with the four 
 great decorations obviously intended for 
 Madame Du Barry. At the same time it is 
 absolutely complete as it is, and in its veil of 
 autumn sadness appears more tender, more sig- 
 nificant, than it would have been had the pic- 
 torial motive been wrought out in greater detail." 
 
102 
 
 GALLERY IH. 
 
 I02. FLOWERS AND SKY 
 ARRANGED AS A 
 DECORATIVE PANEL. 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas 12$ x 25 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
 
 Fragonard, it is said, began this series of 
 paintings in 1772 for the Royal courtezan, 
 Madame du Barry, to adorn her paviHon at 
 Louveciennes, but they never reached their 
 destination. They remained in the painter's 
 studio and were by him transferred, in 1793, 
 during the Reign of Terror, from Paris to 
 Grasse (a small manufacturing town to the 
 north of Cannes) , to the house of his friend M. 
 Maubert, with whom he took up his residence. 
 There he adapted his canvases to the walls of 
 the principal salon on the ground-floor, and 
 there they remained where he himself had fixed 
 them, until, in the Spring of 1898, they were 
 sold by auction at Cannes by their then owner, 
 M. Malvilain, a grandson of M. Maubert, and 
 
GALLERY III. 
 
 103 
 
 brought to England. In the autumn of 1898 
 they were exhibited at the Old Bond Street 
 Galleries, and subsequently passed into the pos- 
 session of their present owner. 
 
 " Nowhere," says Lady Dilke, " was Frago- 
 nard seen to the same advantage as in that silent 
 room at Grasse, which retained the carpet, the 
 consoles, the tapestried chairs, couches and 
 tabourets of his day, the furniture of which 
 seemed, in short, to be just as it was when he 
 painted his little ' Comedy of Love.' The gera- 
 niums, the roses, the purple hollyhocks, which 
 he employed on the smaller panels dividing his 
 main subjects, allied themselves with the fanci- 
 ful garlands and festoons which adorned furni- 
 ture that did not look as if it had been meant 
 for use. There was just that touch of theatrical 
 unreality in the surroundings which was in 
 keeping with the style of Fragonard's own work, 
 — the style which it has in common with all 
 French work of the same date.''* 
 
 The five chief panels, Nos. 89, 91, 94, 98, and 
 1 01, have been reproduced in photogravure and 
 published by Messrs. T. Agnew & Sons, 39B, 
 Old Bond Street. 
 
 Jean Honore Fragonard. Born at Grasse, 1732. 
 Died in Paris, 1806. Genre and decorative painter; 
 
 * " French Art of the XVIIPh Century. " By Lady Dilke, p. 69. 
 
104 
 
 GALLERY lU, 
 
 began life as a notary's clerk; then became a pupil 
 of Chardin. Chardin's scenes of peasant life were 
 not, however, of sufficient charm for Fragonard, and 
 this led him to become the pupil of Boucher and to 
 adopt subjects similar to his, illustrative often — and 
 with surprising reaUsm and license — of the immo- 
 ralities of his time. He took the Prix de Rome 
 at the age of twenty. His original power as a 
 painter was not above devoting itself to light 
 and airy incidents in which grace of costume 
 constituted a prominent feature, and in which ^ 
 each frill and flounce had the finish of a minia- 1 
 ture. His works never wear the aspect of la- 1 
 boured compositions, but suggest rather the effort to % 
 seize the detected grace of a momentary position, with 
 its significant disposition of dress. His art, indeed, 
 was so graceful and of such dainty charm, that in his 
 lifetime it suggested such sayings of him that he was ' 
 bom " in and of the laughing land of Provence." 
 
GA LLERY IV. 
 
G ALLERY IV. 
 
 103. PIRON, PANARD & 
 COLL^;. 
 
 By ETIENNE JEAURAT. 
 
 Canvas 2 1 x 24 inches. 
 
 Lent by C. SCHLESINGER, ESQ. 
 
 A LEXIS PIRON, the French poet, was born 
 
 at Dijon in 1689 and died in 1775 ; 
 Chr. Fr. Panard, poet and playwright, was born 
 at Courville in 1694 ^^^^ ^7^5 J Charles 
 Colle, poet and playwright was born at Paris in 
 1709 and died 1785. 
 
 Etienne Jeaurat was born in Paris, 1699, and 
 died 1789. He was a pupil of Vleughels, a Flemish 
 painter. Many of his historical and genre pictures 
 were engraved during his lifetime. He held for some 
 years the position of Keeper of the Royal Pictures at 
 Versailles. 
 
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 GALLERY IV. 
 
 104. VENUS ET LES 
 AMOURS 
 
 (Venus and Cupids). 
 
 By FRANgOIS BOUCHER. 
 Canvas 24 x 18 inches. 
 Lent by GEORGE HARLAND PECK, ESQ. 
 
 105. THE ARTIST'S MODEL. 
 
 HIS is one of the most finished works of 
 
 this great lover of finish, and shows in a 
 rather lofty apartment a lady in a black gown, 
 and bodice in which bright blue, red, and white 
 are shown, seated by a table, with her attention 
 being drawn by the artist to the study he has 
 already made upon the canvas. The books, port- 
 folios, and other articles about the room are 
 painted with the highest degree of finish, and it 
 is noticeable that the little plaster figure on the 
 table, so vivid in its whiteness, in no way inter- 
 feres with the harmony, but has the effect of 
 heightening the brilliancy of this exquisite com- 
 position. 
 
 By LOUIS LEOPOLD BOILLY. 
 Canvas 18 x 14^ inches. 
 Lent by EDGAR SPEYER, ESQ. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 109 
 
 106. GARDEN SCENE. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE PATER. 
 Panel 12 x 14 inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR EDGAR VINCENT, K.C.M.G., M.P. 
 
 107. PORTRAIT OF 
 MAXIMILIEN 
 ROBESPIERRE. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE. 
 
 Canvas 24 x 20 inches. 
 
 Lent by the EARL OF ROSEBERY, K.G. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of the Earl of 
 Lonsdale. 
 
 BUST portrait, towards the right, but looking 
 at the spectator; powdered hair; green 
 coat ; dark background. 
 
 " That man will go far ; he believes every word 
 he says." — Mirabeau. 
 
 Maximilien Robespierre was born at Arras, 
 1758. At the age of twenty-three he commenced 
 practising as an advocate, and later was ap- 
 pointed by the Bishop of Arras a Judge of the 
 
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 GALLERY IV. 
 
 Episcopal Court; this post he resigned in a fit 
 of remorse, at having condemned a murderer to 
 be executed. At thirty-one he was sent to Paris 
 as one of the representatives in the States 
 General, and thenceforward was one of the prin- 
 cipal actors in the great French Revolution. He 
 voted for the death of Louis XVI., in January, 
 1793, and was directly responsible for the execu- 
 tion of very many persons, being at last himself 
 guillotined on 28th July, 1794, at the age of 
 thirty-six. 
 
 Throughout the most momentous times in 
 Paris his life was frugal and simple. He had a 
 single room in the Rue St. Honore, in the house 
 of Duplay, the carpenter, which served him for 
 bed-chamber as well as for the uses of the day. 
 It was scantily furnished, and he shared the 
 homely fare of his landlord. Close by was the 
 famous Jacobin Club, at which he was dominant. 
 
 Carlyle has said : " That anxious, slight, in- 
 effectual-looking man, under thirty, in spec- 
 tacles ; his eyes (were the glasses off) troubled, 
 careful; with upturned face, snufiing dimly the 
 uncertain future times ; complexion of a multi- 
 plex atrabiliar colour, the final shade of which 
 may be pale sea-green. That greenish-coloured 
 (verdatre) individual is an Advocate of Arras ; 
 his name is Maximilien Robespierre^ * 
 
 * ''The French Revolution," by Thomas Carlyle, Vol. I, p. iii. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 Ill 
 
 John Morley has written : " In the Salon of 
 1 79 1 an artist exhibited Robespierre's portrait, 
 simply inscribing it, * The Incorruptible! Throngs 
 passed before it every day and ratified the 
 honourable designation by eager murmurs of ap- 
 proval. The democratic journcJs were loud in 
 panegyric on the unsleeping sentinel of liberty. 
 They loved to speak of him as the modem 
 Fabricius, and delighted to recall the words of 
 Pyrrhus, that it is easier to turn the sun from its 
 course than to turn Fabricius from the path of 
 honour." * f 
 
 Jean Baptiste Greuze. Born 1725. Died 1805. 
 Genre and portrait painter. Pupil of Groudon and 
 of the French Academy; studying later in Italy. 
 His happiest subjects are taken from the quiet daily 
 life of the middle classes, " The Broken Pitcher," 
 " The Village Bride," and " The Sleeping Girl," testi- 
 fying by their titles the character of his art, in which 
 grace and design, gentle movement and tenderness 
 of expression constitute their charm. The last year 
 of his life was passed in very poor circumstances; 
 the large fortune he had amassed was all lost in the 
 great Revolution, and the public had grown to neg- 
 lect both him and his work in their admiration for 
 the new school of David. The beautiful face which 
 appears in so many of his pictures is doubtless that 
 of his wife. Mademoiselle Babuty, whose extrava- 
 gance and worthless character led him to separate 
 from her long before his death. 
 
 * " Critical Miscellanies," by John Morley, p. 48. 
 f Efforts have been made to identify the Salon portrait with 
 the one now exhibited, but unsuccessfully. A.G.T. 
 
112 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 io8. COURTSHIP. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE MALLET. 
 Copper 13 X g)4 inches. 
 Lent by E. M. HODGKINS, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 130. 
 
 109. THE WISH TO PLEASE. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE PATER. 
 Canvas 17^ x 14 inches. 
 Lent by MRS. STEPHENSON CLARKE. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 136. 
 
 no. FETE IN A GARDEN. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE PATER. 
 Panel 12 x 14 inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR EDGAR VINCENT, K.C.M.G., M.P. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 136. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
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 111. THE DISCREET 
 MESSAGE. 
 
 By FRANgois boucher. 
 
 Canvas 24 x 18 inches. Signed and dated 
 i;6;. 
 
 Lent by GEORGE HARLAND PECK, ESQ. 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 5. 
 
 112. L'lLE DE CYTHERE. 
 (The Isle of Cythera.) 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Canvas 18 x 23 inches. 
 Lent by M. CHARLES SEDELMEYER. 
 
 A GROUP of eleven young people, each 
 holding a pilgrim's staff, are about to em- 
 bark in a richly decorated boat on the left, 
 piloted by Cupids. Two amorini with blazing 
 torches hover in the air above, and a number of 
 others are seen in the distance on a terrace, 
 where a broad flight of steps leads down to the 
 water. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of M. de Julienne. 
 Engraved by NICOLAS DE LARMESSIN. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 40. 
 
114 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 113. DECORATION FOR 
 A CEILING. 
 
 By NICOLAS LANCRET. 
 
 Panel 15 x 11 inches. Signed and dated 1 721. 
 Lent by J. P. HESELTINE, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's Hfe see No. 31. 
 
 By JEAN SIMEON CHARDIN. 
 Canvas 10 )4 x 14K i^iches. Signed and dated 
 1759. 
 
 Lent by MESSRS. FORBES AND PATERSON. 
 A PIECE of ham in a pewter dish ; a bottle 
 
 -tV of wine, roll of bread, and other things, 
 arranged on stone slab. 
 
 FRENCH SCHOOL. 
 
 Panel 21 x 25 inches. 
 
 Lent by GEORGE DONALDSON, ESQ. 
 
 114. SCENE IN A 
 GARDEN. 
 
 115. STILL-LIFE. 
 
 For notice of the painter's Hfe see No. 11. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 116. FETE CHAMPETRE. 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Copper 8^ X lo}^ inches. 
 Lent by LADY WANTAGE. 
 
 A PARTY of ladies and cavaliers (eighteen 
 in number), are dispersed in groups round a 
 formal pool of water encircled by lofty trees and 
 adorned with statues. Near one of these, on 
 the left, is a lady in a pink " sac " dress, with a 
 cavalier in a long crimson cloak. On the right 
 a young man in red, playing on a guitar, is 
 seated at the feet of a lady in blue, and another 
 couple stand behind. Beyond the pool are other 
 groups of people, standing or reclining under the 
 trees. In the far distance a chateau is visible. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 40. 
 
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 GALLERY IV. 
 
 117. SCENE FROM LE 
 
 NOZZE DE FIGARO. 
 
 By GABRIEL SAINT-AUBIN. 
 Panel g}i x 8 inches. 
 Lent by M. WARNECK. 
 
 FIGARO, in blue satin and broad-brimmed 
 buff hat, is seizing the hand of Suzanne ; 
 a dog is at his side ; red curtain to left, dark 
 background to right 
 
 Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin was bom in 
 Paris, 1724. He was a pupilj among others, of 
 Boucher. He at first painted heroic subjects and 
 then domestic scenes, and has left, also, between 
 forty and fifty etchings. He died 1780. 
 
 By JEAN SIMEON CHARDIN. 
 Canvas 15 x 18 inches. 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 '"pWO eggs, a roll of bread, a pewter dish, 
 
 1 a flagon and bottle of wine, with a glass 
 half full of red wine, all admirably arranged 
 on a wooden shelf. 
 
 118. STILL-LIFE. 
 
 For notice of the painter's hfe see No. 11. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 117 
 
 119. LE LORGNEUR (The 
 Ogler). 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Panel 13 x g}4 inches. 
 
 Lent by ASHER WERTHEIMER, ESQ. 
 
 IN rich pink costume and effective black velvet 
 cap, the ogler is playing the guitar to the 
 accompaniment of a flute, played by a man seated 
 on a bank with a lady. The lady wears a rich 
 gown of gold colour, with a pink bow in her hair, 
 and the boughs of the trees near which they sit, 
 and the figure of the standing ogler, are thrown 
 into relief by the strong light of the sky beyond. 
 Formerly in the Collection of M. de Julienne. 
 Engraved by JEAN BAPTISTE SCOTIN. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 40. 
 
 120. STILLXIFE. 
 
 By JEAN SIMEON CHARDIN. 
 
 Canvas II x 14^ inches. 
 
 Lent by WILLIAM BURRELL, ESQ. 
 
 APIECE of melon and a cauliflower, a brown 
 jug, saucepan, and white cloth, arranged 
 on a stone ledge, and beautifully painted by this 
 master of still-life. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 11. 
 
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 GALLERY IV. 
 
 121. THE SUPPER PARTY. 
 
 By CLEMENT MOREAU. 
 Panel 8^ x 6^ inches. 
 
 Lent by the EARL OF NORTHBROOK, G.C.S.L 
 
 PARTY of four at dessert by candlelight. 
 
 ^ ^ On the table a group of the Three 
 Graces supporting a tazza, on which is a pine- 
 apple. One lady is engaging a gentleman to 
 drink, the other is reading a letter, which the 
 second gentleman is trying to get possession of 
 by passing his arm behind her. 
 
 12 2. L' AMOUR PAISIBLE. 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Panel 9x11 inches. 
 
 Lent by GEORGE HARLAND-PECK, ESQ. 
 
 THIS little composition is one of those com- 
 plete examples of the master, of which, if 
 size be taken into consideration, there are very 
 few. From the distant mountains come the soft 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 119 
 
 airs of the country to this group of pleasure- 
 seekers, who, seven in number, are gathered in 
 the foreground. The lady and gentleman on the 
 left, she in red and he with rich blue cloak, are 
 the most conspicuous figures, but great attraction 
 lies in the lady in blue who, seated on the 
 ground, coquetting with her companion, is drawn 
 with all the grace and ease of the painter. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 40. 
 
 123. ENSEIGNE DE 
 DISTILLATEUR 
 PARFUMEUR (Sign- 
 board of a Distiller of 
 Perfume). The opposite 
 side of No. 132. 
 
 By JEAN SIMEON CHARDIN. 
 Panel 26 x 74 inches. 
 
 Lent from the Ed. Pinaud Perfumery, Paris, by 
 M. VICTOR KLOTZ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 11. 
 
120 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 124. LA FONTAINE (The 
 Well). 
 
 Painted by J. S. CHARDIN. 
 Canvas 15X x 22^ inches. 
 Lent by G. HARLAND-peck, esq. 
 
 A WOMAN in a stooping attitude drawing 
 
 ^ water, or wine, from a copper vessel into 
 a large dark jar. White bodice, blue apron, 
 white cap. Another woman is seen through the 
 open door sweeping an adjoining room. 
 
 Engraved by C. N. COCHIN. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 11. 
 
 MALL nude figure of a girl seated on a 
 
 ^ couch amid white, pink, and purple dra- 
 pery; she is watching two doves coquetting 
 together. Dark background relieved by a 
 purple curtain. 
 Engraved by DENNEL. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 5. 
 
 125. L'ATTENTION 
 DANGEREUSE. 
 
 By FRANCOIS BOUCHER. 
 Canvas 16 x 12 inches. 
 Lent by J. P. HESELTINE, ESQ. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 121 
 
 126. MINIATURE OF A 
 LADY. 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Ivory 3 X 2j4 inches. 
 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's Hfe see No. 102. 
 
 126a. LA COQUETTE (A 
 Miniature). 
 
 127. LA MUSETTE (The 
 Bagpipe). 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Canvas 17 x 21 inches. 
 Lent by M. KRAEMER. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of M. J. Lassalle. 
 
 A PARTY of fifteen ladies and gentlemen 
 
 -^V in an open space in a wood, two of whom 
 are dancing together to the music of a bagpipe ; 
 the others are seated or standing in a group to 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 Ivory ly^. X Ji inches. 
 Lent by LORD ALDENHAM. 
 
122 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 the right. Dark foliage forms the background 
 From the left an open space reveals a terrace 
 with statues and some white clouded sky. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 40. 
 
 128. CAMP FOLLOWERS. 
 
 HIS little picture shows a party of soldiers 
 
 A encamping. Some have gathered around 
 the family of peasants who axe evidently fol- 
 lowers of the camp, while on the opposite side a 
 fire has been lit for cooking. The time of day 
 suggested is late afternoon, when the day's 
 march is over. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 40. 
 
 By NICOLAS LANCRET. 
 Panel 6 x SH inches. 
 Lent by M. warneck. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 31. 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Panel 9^ x 1 5 inches. 
 Lent by W. A. COATS, ESQ. 
 
 129. LE DANSE (The 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 123 
 
 130. CLASSICAL SCENE. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE MALLET. 
 Panel 14^ x 17% inches. 
 Lent by E. M. HODGKINS, ESQ. 
 
 Jean Baptiste Mallet, bom at Grasse in 1759; 
 historical and still-life painter. Pupil of Simon 
 Julien, at Toulon, and afterwards of Pnid'hon and 
 Merimee. 
 
 131. THE TWO LOVERS. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE MALLET. 
 Panel 10 }4 x 8^ inches. 
 Lent by E. M. HODGKINS, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 130. 
 
124 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 132. ENSEIGNE DE 
 DISTALLATEUR 
 PARFUMEUR (Sign- 
 board of a Distiller of 
 Perfume). The opposite 
 side of No. 123. 
 
 By JEAN SIMEON CHARDIN. 
 Panel 26 x 74 inches. 
 
 Lent from the Ed. Pinaud Perfumery, Paris, by 
 M. VICTOR KLOTZ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 11. 
 
 133. A PASTORAL. 
 
 By FRANCOIS BOUCHER. 
 
 Canvas 25 x 20 inches. Signed and dated 1764. 
 Lent by T. HUMPHRY WARD, ESQ. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 5. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 134. GROUP IN A 
 GARDEN. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE PATER. 
 
 Canvas 28^ x 39^ inches. 
 
 Lent by ASHER WERTHEIMER, ESQ. 
 
 IN this scene of several figures, arranged in 
 various picturesque attitudes on a terrace 
 overlooking a wide landscape, the painter has 
 clearly indicated the power he possessed of 
 graceful grouping; the charming harmonious 
 effect of a summer afternoon is aided by the 
 evident spontaniety of the execution of the 
 entire work. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 136. 
 
126 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 135. L'OCCUPATION DE 
 MENAGE (Household 
 
 By ETIENNE AUBRY. 
 Canvas 32 x 25 inches. 
 Lent by CAPTAIN WARNER. 
 
 Etienne Aubry, bom at Versailles, 1745; died 
 1 781. Pupil of Greuze, J. A. Silvestre, and of 
 Joseph Vien; noted for his portraits and genre 
 subjects. Exhibited at the Salon. Died at the 
 early age of thirty-six, the year he exhibited " The 
 Parting of Coriolanus from his Wife." Some fine 
 drawings of his are in the Louvre. 
 
 136. PLAISIRS 
 
 CHAMPETRES (Pleasures 
 of the Country). 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE PATER. 
 Canvas 35>^ x 44 inches. 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of twenty-seven figures, 
 eleven in the foreground and sixteen in- 
 terspersed among the trees a little distance away. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 127 
 
 The central figure is in white satin, with blue 
 bows, and with rose-coloured drapery falling at 
 her left side. Her companions of either sex 
 around her, are clothed in like gay attire, and 
 engaged in idle pastime, music and conversation. 
 Tall and graceful trees occupy the background 
 on the right, and open landscape on the left. 
 
 The characteristics of the School of Watteau 
 may be studied in this work, in their expression 
 of the lightness of the age ; gallantries, but with- 
 in the limits of decorum ; the pleasures of music 
 and the delight in dress in all its decoration, and 
 the elegancies of life, with no suggestion, as Mr. 
 Stranahan observes, " of an aftermath of suffer- 
 ing, or even regret" 
 
 Formerly in the Collections of the Abbe de 
 Mannville and M. Bernstein. 
 
 Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater. Bom 1695. Died 
 1736. Genre painter. His father, a sculptor, im- 
 parted to him the first principles of art. He then 
 became the pupil of Watteau, whose uncertain tem- 
 perament, however, soon brought about a separation ; 
 but Pater's sympathy with his master's work was 
 great, and when Watteau's end was approaching, 
 Pater was sent for, and he worked daily under his 
 master's eye, receiving such instruction from him as 
 thoroughly to imbue him with the spirit that ani- 
 mated Watteau. In subject and composition. Pater's 
 work closely resembles his master's, and his colour 
 is rich, but his drawing is not so precise, nor is his 
 handling so firm and dehberate in its completeness. 
 
128 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 137. LA BELLE CUISINIERE 
 (The pretty Kitchen-maid). 
 
 FRENCH SCHOOL. 
 
 Canvas 29 x 24 inches. 
 
 Lent by N. FORBES ROBERTSON, ESQ. 
 
 138. LE REPOS DE DIANE 
 (Diana reposing). 
 
 By FRANgOIS BOUCHER. 
 Canvas 30^^ x 38 inches. 
 Lent by REGINALD VAILE, ESQ. 
 
 THE scene is a forest glade, where the fair 
 Diana is resting after the exertions of the 
 chase. One of her nymphs attends her, and her 
 bow and quiver of arrows hang on a branch 
 close by. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 5. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 129 
 
 139. A YOUNG GIRL 
 PLUCKING A 
 FLOWER. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE. 
 Canvas, oval, 27^ x 22^ inches. 
 Lent by CHARLES MORRISON, ESQ. 
 
 HALF-LENGTH figure, in white; a blue 
 fillet is in her hair, and flowers, other than 
 that she is plucking, are in a straw hat which 
 hangs on her arm. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 107. 
 
 140. THE NURSE. 
 
 By MADEMOISELLE MARGUERITE GERARD. 
 Panel 23^ x 20 inches. 
 
 Lent by M. HENRI STETTINER. 
 
 Marguerite Gerard, bom 1761, at Grasse. 
 Pupil of Fragonard. There are full-length por- 
 traits of M. Tallien and M. Recamier at the 
 Bordeaux Museum, and a picture, called " Las 
 Torterelles," at Fontainebleau, painted by her. 
 
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130 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 141. LE LISEUR (The 
 Reader). 
 
 By HENRI GRAVELOT. 
 
 Panel 12 x 10 inches. 
 
 Lent by J. P. HESELTINE, ESQ. 
 
 Henri Gravelot, bom in Paris, 1699; died 
 1773; designer and engraver. He came to Eng- 
 land in 1733 and was very successful, but finally, 
 in 1754, settled in Paris. His etchings of plates for 
 books are well known; the designs in Theobald's 
 Shakespeare are his, and also some of those in Sir 
 Thomas Hanmer's edition of Shakespeare. His 
 drawings, often of graceful genre subjects, of ancient 
 buildings, etc., show much taste and excellence; he 
 is known, too, as one of the earliest caricaturists. 
 
 Formerly in the possession of Mrs. Wornum. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 142. JEUNE FEMME 
 
 ASSISE DANS UN 
 PARC (Young Girl 
 
 By L. R. TRINQUESSE. 
 
 Canvas 17^ x 12 j4 inches. Signed and dated 
 178;. 
 
 Lent by E. M. HODGKINS, ESQ. 
 
 HIS dainty little picture has all the charac- 
 
 i teristics of this rare painter. The girl 
 in red skirt, grey bodice and black hat is seated 
 amid the lofty trees of a park. A circular classi- 
 cal building is a little distance away. Her 
 thoughts may be interpreted by the figure of 
 Cupid, who is moving among the rose bushes 
 behind her. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of M. G. Miihl- 
 bacher. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 22. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 143. ASSEMBL^E GAL ANTE. 
 
 By JEAN BAPTISTE PATER. 
 Copper 12^ X 10 inches. 
 Lent by GEORGE DONALDSON, ESQ. 
 
 THIS charming little example shows a lady 
 in a vivid red cap, and white dress, over 
 which is a pink gown ; she is seated to the left 
 on a bank, conversing with a gentleman, who 
 holds a guitar ; two others are coquetting a little 
 distance away on the left. The time is after- 
 noon, and the tone of silvery-grey sky is very 
 effective against the reds of the costumes. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 136. 
 
 144. LES DINDONS (The 
 Turkeys). 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Canvas iS)4 x 23^ inches. 
 
 Lent by GEORGE DONALDSON, ESQ. 
 
 THIS vigorous sketch of Fragonard's repre- 
 sents a child in red, flying to its young 
 mother for protection from the turkeys, which 
 have just come on the scene from the door on 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 133 
 
 the right. The objects of still life in their ad- 
 mirable painting, speak of his tuition under 
 Chardin, while at the same time the grace of the 
 design, and the adventurous display of colour 
 throughout, belong peculiarly to Fragonard. The 
 richness of leafage and dash of blue distance 
 have a truthfulness of expression in spite of the 
 evident rapid execution. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 102. 
 
 145. A MASQUERADE. 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 Panel 9^ x 7/4 inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR EDGAR VINCENT, K.C.M.G., M.P. 
 
 GROUP of five small, three-quarter length 
 
 figures in masquerading costume, one of 
 them holding a guitar; a red curtain on the 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Sir Andrew 
 Fountaine. 
 
 Engraved by HENRI SIMON THOMASSIN, fils. 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 40. 
 
 right. 
 
134 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 146. A LADY AT 
 
 NEEDLEWORK. 
 
 By LOUIS LEOPOLD BOILLY. 
 
 Panel 16 x 13 inches. 
 
 Lent by E. M. HODGKINS, ESQ. 
 
 Louis Leopold Boilly, born at La Bassee, near 
 Lille, in 176 . Died in Paris, 1845. Pupil of his 
 father, a wood -cancer. At the age of fourteen he 
 went to the Augustine Priory, at Douai, where he 
 painted genre pictures and portraits. About 1786 
 he settled in Paris, and executed an immense number 
 of works, it is said over 5,000 portraits, besides other 
 pictures. By desire of the Academy he was invested 
 with the Legion of Honour. 
 
 By ANTOINE WATTEAU. 
 
 Canvas 10 }4 x 9 inches. 
 
 Lent by GEORGE HARLAND PECK, ESQ. 
 
 HIS exquisite work shows a couple dancing 
 
 A together in a space in a wood; she in 
 white skirt and blue jacket and her vis-a-vis 
 in gay clothes of yellow and red. Three other 
 figures are on the right and two more are seated 
 a little distance away on the left. Deep foliage 
 forms the background, with a glimpse of bright 
 sky on the left. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 40. 
 
 147. THE DANCE. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 148. THE DEDICATION OF 
 AN EPIC POEM. 
 
 By PIERRE ALEXANDRE WILLE. 
 
 Canvas 23^ x 19 inches. 
 
 Lent by the EARL OF NORTHBROOK, G.C.S.I. 
 
 N the right a lady in a pink dress is sitting 
 
 in an arm-chair, holding a cup and saucer 
 in her left hand, and a spoon in her right; her 
 left arm rests on a small table, on which is a 
 coffee-pot. At her side stands her maid. In 
 front a poet is reciting from a book, the title- 
 page of which bears : 
 
 La Bagatelle 
 Poeme 
 en XXX chants 
 Dedie a Mademoiselle 
 
 A Paris. 
 
 Out of his pocket protrude some papers, one of 
 which is inscribed : " Vers a Mirny petit chien 
 de Mademoiselle De . . . In the background 
 
136 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 a curtained bed. In the foreground, on the right, 
 a basket with knitting, etc. 
 
 Signed P. A. Wille, i;8o, No. 53. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Sir Thomas 
 Baring, Bart. 
 
 Engraved by A. F. DENNEL. 
 
 Pierre Alexandre Wille, bom in Paris, 1748. 
 After receiving some instruction from his father, he 
 became the pupil of Greuze. He distinguished him- 
 self as a painter of domestic genre. He was ap- 
 pointed Court Painter to Louis XVI, but he lost all 
 his property in the Revolution. The date of his 
 death is not known, but he was alive in 1821, for in 
 that year he is recorded as having petitioned the 
 Duchess d'Angouleme to assist him in the main- 
 tenance of his wife in the Asylum of Charenton. 
 There is no example of Wille in the Louvre, but the 
 museums of Angiers, Bordeaux, and Cambrai possess 
 -specimens of his work. 
 
GALLERY IV. 
 
 149. Mademoiselle GUIMARD. 
 
 By JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD. 
 
 Panel 12% x g}i inches. 
 
 Lent by GEORGE HARLAND-PECK, ESQ. 
 
 HE famous dancer was born in 1743 and 
 
 1 died in 18 16. She made her deb^it in 
 the Ballet at the Comedie Frangaise at the age 
 of sixteen, and was engaged at the Opera three 
 years later. She married, in 1787, Jean Etienne 
 Despreaux, and finally quitted the stage in 1789. 
 
 Small full-length figure, in white gauzy 
 dress with low-cut bodice, and hat of large 
 white ostrich feathers ; with arms outstretched, 
 and holding a festoon of roses attached to 
 her right shoulder, she poises gracefully 
 tovv^ards the spectator. The scene is an orna- 
 mental garden, with its trees, broad steps, and 
 fountains. On the left stands a bowl of roses, 
 and on the right, some distance away against the 
 trees, a marble statue, at the base of which two 
 figures are coquetting. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 102. 
 
138 
 
 GALLERY IV. 
 
 150. PORTRAIT OF A 
 LADY. 
 
 By JEAN CHARLES NICAISE PERRIN. 
 Canvas 2$ x 21 inches. 
 Lent by CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ. 
 Dated 1776. 
 
 151. HEAD OF A YOUNG 
 GIRL. 
 
 By FRANCOIS BOUCHER. 
 Canvas i$)4 x 12 inches. 
 
 Lent by the REV. S. A. THOMPSON-YATES, M.A. 
 
 SHE is in a pink and green costume, and 
 wears a hat with a blue ribbon. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Mrs. Lyne 
 Stephens. 
 
 For notice of the painter's life see No. 5. 
 
Index of Contributors. 
 
 AGNEW, MESSRS. T., & SONS, 1 7, 1 9, 46 
 ALDENHAM, LORD, 126a 
 
 BAILEY, CHARLES, ESQ., 42 
 BASSET, A. F., ESQ., 77 
 BISCHOFFSHEIM, MRS., 13a 
 BURRELL, WILLIAM, ESQ., 1 20 
 BURTON, LORD, 80 
 
 BUTLER, CHARLES, ESQ., 56, 60, 150 
 
 CHAMBERLAYNE, TANKERVILLE, ESQ., M.P., 70 
 CLANRICARDE, MARQUESS OF, 87 
 CLARKE, MRS. STEPHENSON, 62, I09 
 COATS, W, A., ESQ., 1 28 
 
 COLNAGHI, MARTIN H., ESQ., 34, 63, 65, 6j, 72, 76 
 COLNAGHI, MRS. MARTIN, 68, 7 1 
 
 COOK, SIR FREDERICK, BART., M.P., 41, 45, 48, 53 
 CREWS, C. T. D., ESQ., J.P., F.S.A., 4, 26, 30, 69 
 
 DARNLEY, EARL OF, 8 1, 84 
 DAWSON, REV. W. J., 36 
 
 DONALDSON, GEORGE, ESQ., 12, II 3, 143, 144 
 
 FORBES & PATERSON, MESSRS., II 5 
 FORD, MRS. RICHARD, 44, 47 
 
140 
 
 GIMPEL, M., I 
 
 GOLDSCHMIDT. M. LEOPOLD, 28 
 GRENVILLK, P.. NEVILLE, ESQ., 86 
 
 HARLAND-PECK, GEORGE, ESQ., 29, IO4, III, 12 2, 
 
 124, 147, 149 
 HESELTINE, J. P., ESQ., 74, II4, 1 25, 141 
 HIRSCH, LEOPOLD, ESQ., 54, 83, 85 
 HODGKINS, E. M., ESQ., I08, 130, 131, 142, 146 
 HUDSON, R. W., ESQ., 50, 52 
 
 IVEAGH, LORD, K.P., 40 
 
 KANN, M. RUDOLPHE, 27, 3 1 
 KLOTZ, M. VICTOR, 123, 1 32 
 KRAEMER, M., 1 27 
 
 LANE, HUGH P., ESQ., 5 1, 64 
 LEEDS, DUKE OF, 73 
 LESSER, LESSER, ESQ., 3 
 LLANGATTOCK, LORD, 55 
 
 MASHAM, LORD, 1 8 
 
 MORGAN, J. PIERPONT, ESQ., 89, 90, 9 1, 92, 93, 94, 
 
 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, loi, 102 
 
 MORRISON, CHARLES, ESQ., 1 39 
 
 NEELD, LT.-COL. SIR AUDLEY, M.P., 66, 79 
 NORTHBROOK, EARL OF, G.C.S.L, 24, 121, 148 
 
 PEARSON, CAPTAIN, 78 
 PHILLIPS, LIONEL, ESQ., 6, 8 
 POTHUAU, M., 10 
 POWYS, HON. STEPHEN, 59 
 
141 
 
 RIDGWAY, MADAME, 5, 9, 25, 39 
 ROBERTSON, J. FORBES, ESQ., 1 37 
 ROSEBERY, EARL OF, K.G., 107 
 RUTLAND, DUKE OF, K.G., 58 
 
 SCHLESINGER, C, ESQ., I03 
 SEDELMEYER, M. CHARLES, 82, 112 
 SIMON, M, EDMOND, 1 5, 38 
 SPE¥ER, E., ESQ., I05 
 STETTINER, M. HENRI, I40 
 SUTHERLAND, DUKE OF, 57 
 
 THOMPSON-YATES, REV. S. A., ESQ., M.A., 151 
 VAILE, REGINALD, ESQ., 2, II, 14, 22, 23, 32, 
 
 33, 35, 37, 118, 126, 136, 138 
 
 VINCENT, SIR EDGAR, K.C.M.G., M.P., I06, IIO, 145 
 
 WANTAGE, LADY, 6 1, II 6 
 WARD, T. HUMPHRY, ESQ., 75, 1 33 
 WARNECK, M., 1 1 7, 1 29 
 WARNER, CAPTAIN, 1 35 
 
 WELD-BLUNDELL, CHARLES, ESQ., 43, 49 
 WERTHEIMER, A., ESQ., 1 1 9, 1 34 
 WERTHEIMER, C. J., ESQ., 7 
 WESTMINSTER, DUKE OF, 88 
 WILDENSTEIN, M., 1 3, 1 6, 2 O, 21 
 
Index of Artists. 
 
 AUBRY, ETIENNE, 1 35 
 
 FOILLY, LOUIS LEOPOLD, 1 05, 1 46 
 
 BOUCHER, FRANCOIS, 4, 5, 9, 25, 39, I04, III, 
 
 125, 1335 138, 
 ERUN, MADAME VIGI^E LE, 20 
 
 CHARDIN, JEAN SIMEON, II, 1 1 5, 1 1 8, I20, 1 23, 
 
 124, 132 
 COYPEL, CHARLES ANTOINE, I 
 
 DAVID, JACQUES LOUIS, 
 
 DE TROY, JEAN FRANCOIS, 1 6 
 
 DROUAIS, FRANCOIS HUBERT, 1 8 
 
 FRAGONARD, JEAN HONORE, 23, 28, 89, 90, 91, 
 
 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 9^, 99, loo, loi, 
 
 I02, 126, 126a, 144, 149 
 GAINSBOROUGH, THOMAS, R.A., 46, 50, 52, 62, 65, 
 
 67, 68, 72, 77, 80, 88 
 
 GERARD, MARGUERITE, 140 
 GRAVELOT, HENRI, I4I 
 
 GREUZE, JEAN BAPTISTE, 2, 3, 12, 1 5, 24, 34, 
 41, 107, 139 
 
 HIGHMORE, JOSEPH, 56 
 HOGARTH, WILLIAM, 48, 53 
 HOPPNER, JOHN, R.A., 78, 84 
 HUET, JEAN BAPTISTE, 1 4, 29 
 
 IBBETSON, JULIUS CAESAR, 7 1 
 
143 
 
 JEAURAT, ETIENNE, IO3 
 
 LANCRET, NICOLAS, 27, 3I, 33, 35, 37, II4, 1 29 
 LARGILLIERE, NICHOLAS DE, 13a, 1 7, 1 9, 21, 36 
 LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS, P.R.A., 5 1 
 
 MALLET, JEAN BAPTISTE, 108, 130, 131 
 MOREAU, CLEMENT, 121 
 MORLAND, GEORGE, 63, 69, 76 
 
 NATTIER, JEAN MARC, 6, 7, 8, 32, 38 
 
 OPIE, JOHNj R.A., 61, 66 
 
 PATER, JEAN BAPTISTE, 26, 30, I06, I09, IIO, 
 
 134, 136, 143 
 PENNY, EDWARD, R.A., 43, 49 
 PERRIN, JEAN CHARLES NICAISE, 150 
 PETERS, REV. WILLIAM, R.A., 54, 74 
 
 RAEBURN, SIR HENRY, R.A., 83 
 
 REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA, P.R.A., 45, 58, 59, 73, 
 
 75, 81, 86, 87 
 
 ROMNEY, GEORGE, 55, 57, 64, 70, 79, 82, 85 
 
 SAINT-AUBIN, GABRIEL, II7 
 
 TOCQUE, LOUIS, lO 
 TRINQUESSE, L. R., 22, I42 
 
 VAN LOO, CARLE ANDR^, 1 3 
 
 WATTEAU, ANTOINE, 40, 42, 112, 1 1 6, II 9, 122, 
 
 127, 128, 145, 147 
 WILLE, PIERRE ALEXANDRE, 1 48 
 WILSON, RICHARD, R.A., 44, 47, 60 
 
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