A Descriptive Catalogue: (with Remarks and Anecdotes Never Before Published in English) of Some Pictures, of the Different Schools, Purchased for His Majesty the Late King of Poland ...May be had of Cadell and Davies, Hookham, Hookham, Lackington, Allen, and Company, Jones, Black and Barry, 1802 - Painters |
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Page 25 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for Me and thee.
Page 4 - ... and the different letters of his Polish Majesty's Prime Minister on the subject of this Collection, his Lordship sent them to Lord Whitworth, at St. Petersburg, but, unfortunately, the harmony which till then had subsisted between that Court and the Court of London was on its decline, and soon after his Excellency returned home. ' However, on the accession of Alexander to the Imperial throne, we renewed our application, and requested Lord Whitworth to remit to us our papers, in order to lay before...
Page 2 - ... that they have all been gradually purchased, both at public sales and by private contract. ... As his Polish Majesty was particularly desirous of possessing none but pure pictures, we were also instructed, to prevent any damage, not to have them cleaned, which, as the visitors of the Exhibition will see, has been punctually observed, with the exception of a few which, after they were bought, were found to have been painted upon, although we had used the best of our knowledge against purchasing...
Page 2 - ... act with such caution as to purchase none but originals, and the fine pictures of the different Schools, when we should meet with them, at a liberal but not extravagant price, and it is on that principle that they have all been gradually purchased, both at public sales and by private contract. ... As his Polish Majesty was particularly desirous of possessing none but pure pictures, we were also instructed, to prevent any damage, not to have them cleaned, which, as the visitors of the Exhibition...
Page 4 - Russia, that as principal possessor of the Polish estates, and bound, of course, to discharge their and the late King's debts, his Imperial Majesty would be pleased to take the Collection, and reimburse what it had cost, or to defray the expenses of a public sale by auction, and us of our losses, if any were sustained. As soon as Lord Grenville, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, had perused our memorial and the different letters of his Polish Majesty's Prime Minister on the subject of...
Page 3 - ... Collection, tho' far advanced, was yet far from being compleated. However, we went on in our pursuit, to render it worthy of a Sovereign, or, at all chance, of an Exhibition, and it was with that view that we continued to make our purchases to the very last spring, when it was expected that the late King of Poland's family would send for the Cabinet, at which time some of our friends, being desirous to see it before the exportation, saw about half of the pictures, as they could not be all shown...
Page 1 - ... English Schools. Then follow the conditions of sale, and an index to the Catalogue of 188 pictures. . The introduction commences thus : — 'It was in 1790, immediately after the French Revolution at that epoch, when the emigrant nobility brought into England their most precious effects to be disposed of, that Stanislaus Augustus sent here a Commission for purchasing a collection of pictures, in order to add some to those his Majesty was already possessed of, and to present the different artists...
Page 158 - Watteau is little known among us. His works being extremely dear on the Continent the brokers and dealers bring us over copies of his pictures, or those of his imitators, Lancret and Pater, which they impose upon us as originals.
Page 121 - ... jealousy common to artists, did, however, admire and praise the works of Poussin, whose commissions were more numerous than he could execute, and, without mentioning all the palaces and principal collections he contributed so highly to enrich, we will enumerate only those of...