The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-23

bousht bv Parliament in 1923, for GO, 0O0i In
1925. other pictures were purchased Of MIR. Ham
let or these Titians I" Bacchus and Ariadne" cost
5 OOOi. The same year I" La Verge au Panier, y
of Correggio, was bought OF Mr.. Nieuwenhuys
for 3,SOOI' In 1924 the 9 Ecce Homo and Ed
ucation Of Cupid" by the same master, were bought
from the Marquis of Londonderry for 1901. In
1926, Sir. G. Beaumont presented his collection,
valued at 7 500 guineas. Of the one hundred and
seventeen pictures in the National Gallery, sixty
were presented or left by WILL Thirty-one were
bequeathed by Rev. Howell Carr.
The Raising of Lazarus by Sebastian del
Piombo, which is the chief ornament of the Ma
tiona Gallery, Mr.. Waagen calls the most import
ant that England possesses of the Italian school
Cardinal Giulio di Medci afterwards Clement
| Vll.) ordered this and the TRANSPORTATION" foI
the cathedral of Narbonne. 1t finished about
the year 1919. Ii is thought that Michael Angelo
gave the design and composition This picture re-
NAMED at Narbonne until it added TO the Or
leans Gallery. The Regent is said to have paid only
$4,000 francs for it. When it came to England
with the Orleans Gallery, Mr.. Angersteln pur
chased il for $500 guineas the first morning Of
the exhibition, at which only patrons OF the arr
were admitted. In the sequel, MIR. Beckford, OF
Fort Hill Abbey, offered him 20,000l sterling for
it, probably the largest sum that was ever proposed
for picture Mr.. Angerstein, however, insisted
| that il should be guiDeas, or five per cent more,
upon which the negotiation failed. Another of the
most celebrated treasures of the National Gallery is
the GO Woman taken in Adultery" by Rembrandt,
| which is thought TO be the best of that masters
cabinet pictures. This also came from the Anger
stein collection. 1t is on panel, feet 3 inches
high, by 2 feet 3 inches wide.
| The altar-pece of Parmegiano was given to the
gallery by the British Institution. had been pre-
viously sold to Mr.. Hart Davis for 6,0OOi. The
Dance of Fauns and Bacchantes," by N. Pouis-
sin, feet inches high, by feet u inches wide,
was bought of Harold for 2,OOOt.. An categorical
picture, by Rubens, 6 feet 5 inches high by feet
8 inches wide, was presented by the Marquis OF
Stafford to the gallery. He had previously paid
2 feet inches high, by 2 feet II inches wide, re-
ceived ll0i Mr.. Angerstein, from whose gallery
they came, paid in 1897 1854 for them. The
" Blind Fiddler was painted by Wilkie, when he
was only twenty-one years of age.
| In Sir Robert Peel's collection is Rubens' cele-
brated "Chapeau de Paille," which was sold in
| 1929 TO Mr.. Nieuwenhuys for 3,00Oi. and the next
year purchased by Sir Robert lit is said) for 3,500t
This is probably the highest sum ever paid for a
| half-length portrait. Ii only measures 2 feet 7
| inches high, and foot 10 inches wide. Rubens,
| it is stated, valued this work so highly that he
would never part with it. " Bacchanaian
Scene" by Rubens, feet inches high, by 6 feet
| 6 inches wide, which had been sold to Lucien Be-
naparte in 1916, and to Bonnemason in 1927, was
sold to Sir Robert for l,l00i He paid for Ge-
rard Terburg Music Master, Girl, and Listener"
2 feet inch high, by foot 81 inches wide, about
| l,000l; for Gerard Douw sold Woman and
Girl chaffering about hare" which had been sold
to Mr.. Beckford in 1923 for 1870 guineas, no
smaller sum than this, without doubt for Van
Mieris Poulterer and Fish Monger," $40 guneas,
at auction; for Jan Steen 'Girl at Harpsi-
chord" foot inches high, and foot wide, at
auction, in Paris, 7,740 francs; for Peter de
Hooge " Woman and Child in an Arbor," 2 feet 5
inches high, and foot III inches wide, 945l., in
1925; for an Adrian Van Ostade can Alchemyst,
foot and half an inch high, by foot Al inches
wide, at least 800 guineas; for an Isaac Van Os.
tade Man riding, [" &c, ! foot inches high, and
/ foot 6 inches wide, 1000 guineas for Paul
Potter " Four Cows, Sheep, Horse, /" &C., by even
ing light, foot II inches high, by foot inches
WIDE, purchased at Lord Gwydyr's sale, in 1929,
POS guineas for Cuyp "Horseman on a
black horse, with sheep in the foreground" foot
high, by foot 8 inches wide, $50 guineas This
last picture originally purchased in the town OF
Hoorn, Holland for about one shilling English
Sir Robert also paid for Wynant's Clay Hills,
Woman on Horseback" &C., Ill inches high, by
foot inches wide, 255 guineas, in 1926; for the
Ruins of the Castle of Brederode," by Hobbema,
? feet 81 inches high, by 3 feet Al inches wide,
about as much as Mr. Nieuwenhuys had paid for it,
or oOOi; for another, by same artist 300 for three
small sea pieces, by Van de Velde, respectively,
300i., 500t, and 800i.; and for Wander Heyden
"View in Cologne" AIS guneas-
In the Bridgewater Gallery are the " Seven Sa
craments," by Nicholas Poussn, bought out o.
the Orleans Gallery for 1901 each, OF 4,900i.
Mr.. Rogers gave l2Oi for drawing of the En-.
tombment" by Raphael with pen.
The Messrs. Woodrow paid, AT Sir NJ Sykes
sale, for little silver Pax"-a nieiio, 81 inches
high, by 2. inches wide, 3l5 guineas Work in
nieao was engraving upon metal, generally silver,
in which the traced lines were filed up with black
mass Of sulphate Of silver, called nigelium in Latin
and in Italian niello) After Sir Thomas Lawrence's
death, the Messrs Woodrow purchased the greater
part Of his celebrated collection Of drawings for
20,000L
In Lord Ashburton's Gallery, Rubens' " Wolf
Hunt" feet inches high, and feet 2 inches
WIDE, was bought in Paris, 1924, for 80, 900 francs
The Rape OF the Sabines" and Reconciliation, "
two small works by the same master, cost 2,000l.
Lord Ashburton paid for Gerard Douw " Her
nit Praying" foot 2 inches high, and foot Z
inches wide, 80 600 francs, in 1904 for Peter de
Hooge Woman with Roasted Apples 2 feet 4
inches high, and feet wide, in 1897, 500 guineas
for Cattle Piece" by Paul Potter, foot 81
inches high, and foot inches wide, 800 guineas
for Nicholas Berghem /" Woman with Cows"
foot 2, inches high, and foot a inches wide, $50
guIneas; for two other works by the same master,
+" Lobster Catchers, foot and one quarter inch
high, by foot and three-auarter inch wide $50
foot u inches wide, 600i.; for a Du Jardins "
Water Mill,' foot ~ inches high, and / foot q
inches wide, 10000 francs, in 1926; for a Wy.
nants, 300 guineas; for Hobbema, 400 guineas
for Wander Heyden, ! foot inches high, and ]
foot II inches wide, 600l.
In the Grosvenor Gallery, four colossal works
Of Rubens were sold 10 Lord Grosvenor for
100000 A cattle piece, by Paul Potter, foot 8.
inches high, and foot Z, inches wide, was bought
in at a sale in London for ,552i, in 1906, and az
forwards purchased by Lord @. at a rather lower
price. For a Gerard Douw "Mother and Chill
dren," 80, 500 francs were paid in 1888
In George Tvs collection are Rembrandt's "ShiT
Builder" bought in 1910 for TO- 500 forms; his
portrait Of Woman" for 900 guineas, and hi,
"Wise Mems Offering" feet high, by feet
inches wide, in 1915, for 10000 francs. BY Schal
ken, lie Roi Detrousse," 2 feet II inches high
and foot u inches wide, purchased in 1903, Tor
$50 guneas; Peter de Hooge, 2 feet inches high
and feet inches wide, IN 1895, for Is 900 francs
and Paul Potter, foot 81 inches high, by 2 fee
6 inches wide, in 1900, for 10, $50 forms.
In the Marquis Of Lsnsdowne's Gallery are Rem
brandts Mill" bought Of the Orleans collection
for S00i., and Ruysdaes "Storm at Sea- for 1851
OF Mr.. BeckforI's collection, at Bath, Wager