Anecdotes of Painting in England, with Some Account of the Principal Artists, and Notes on Other Arts

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...like a Persian, is in the gallery of royal personages at Kensington.3 Melville4 1 Verrio quarrelling with Mrs. Marriot, the housekeeper at Windsor, drew her pieture for one of the Furies. This was to gratify his own passion; to flatter that of the court, he has represented Lord Shaftesbury among the Demons of faetion, in St. Gcorge's Hall. 2 This portrait of Mary Queen of Scots is a copy by Zuccaro, and that lately at St. James's, another by Mytens. In Charles the First's Colleetion was a small whole length, which was brought from Scotland, as stated in the Catalogue. She had been in England, and under the strietest confinement, since 1568, several years previously to Zuccaro's arrival; and it is utterly improbable that any foreign painter should have been admitted to her presence, under the then existing cireumstances. In faet, it would be extremely difficult to prove, that any pieture of her is genuine, since her departure from France and Scotland. During her residence at Paris, which she quitted in 1561, she is known to have sate to the court painters, to Janet, and F. Pourbus the elder. In the Bodleian Gallery at Oxford is a head of her by the first named, represented as in mourning for her husband, Francis II. But the portrait of her which has the general suffrage, for its authenticity, is one preserved at Dalmahoy, the principal seat of the Earl of Morton, in Scotland, from which an elegant engraving has been made. It is inseribed Mary Queen of Scots, said to have been painted during her confinement in Lochleven-castle. Yet the name of the painter will elude the most laborious seareh.--D. 3 Now at Hampton-court.--W. 4 Mr. Rogers has given an exaet fac-simile of a sketeh in black and red chalk, taken in 1675, for a portrait of Queen Elizabe...