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Page 47 - In the ensuing month the House proceeded to vote, that the personal estate of the late King, Queen, and Prince should be inventoried, appraised, and sold. This vote, in which they seem to have acted honestly, not allowing their own members to be concerned in the sale, was the cause that the collections fell into a variety of low hands, and were dispersed among the painters and officers of the late King's household; where many of them remained on sale...
Page 77 - ... Petersburg. That a St. George painted by Raphael's hand was in Henry the Eighth's collection of pictures is no doubt true, but the following description, from the Inventory of works of art at Westminster Palace, taken at the time of that monarch's death, cannot apply to the Hermitage picture : — " 126. Item. A table with the picture of St. George, his spear being broken and his sword in his hand.
Page 48 - ... as should be thought fit to be reserved for the use of the state...
Page 27 - Since I came into the world I have made various contracts, but never a more difficult one than this, and which has succeeded so happily. In the first place the city of Mantua and then all the Princes of Christendom, both great and small, were struck with astonishment that we could induce the Duke Vincenzo to dispose of them. The people of Mantua made so much noise about it that if Duke Vincenzo could have had them back again he would readily have paid double, and his people would have been willing...
Page 26 - Le prince de Galles est le prince le plus amateur de la peinture qui soit au monde.
Page 117 - ... Ancram, on his return from the Hague, presented to his Majesty three pictures by this master : 1. A portrait of himself when about thirty, in a velvet cap and furred robe, wearing a gold chain. (I presume this picture to be the same which is now in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn.*) 2. " A young scholar sitting upon a stool, in a purple cap and black gown, reading in a book by a sea-coal fire, a pair of tongs lying by.