The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12

oval Of young and pretty girl. with long
brown ringlets, said to be Queen Victoria,
whom, however, Lawrence Is not known
to have painted and tiny rer dering OF
! the Duke Of Wellington, high-nosed. clear
, eyed. much character simply and firmly
indicated.
The name OF the Lawrence picture is
sThe Preferred Kiss and the subject two
cornely little children, rose-cheeked. bright
eyed and gayly dressed, half struggling.
half embracing, the boy child forward and
the girl child coy This picture, pleasing
In color and execution and excelleEtly pre-
served. was PARTED shortly before tho
artists death and it probably combines
his best qualities as well as any other which
A rood half-length OF Admiral viscount
Duncan shows the work of John Singleton
Copley, r. A. His work 10 scarce, much
having been destroyed by the great fire at
! his native Boston In 1872.
The performance Of two women artists,
| contem porarv with Copley, is also illustrated
here Angelica Kaufman, an original
Royal Academician, has tiny portrait OF
herself, displaying her Greek profile; and
the less famous Catherine Read has an
oval bust OF one OF the beautiful Miss Gun.
nings, Elizabeth, Duchess successfully OF
Hamilton and Argyll
Very demure the beauty looks In frilled
lace cap, tied under her chin with blue
ribbons Elizabeth Cunning was, by the
way, an ancestress of Mr.. Mccormick,
whose mother comes Of the Hamilton lire.
Other interesting women Of that period
whose likenesses are here are Miss Sheridan,
sister to Richard Brinsley Sheridan; and
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the bril-
! liant letter writer 80 much admired by
! Pope, and the object Of one of his full
favored epigrams. Both these are good
examples Of Francis Cotes, r. A.; while
| from the brush of Johann Zohany, also an
| original Royal Academician, there Is
portrait of Lady Hester Stanhope, daughter
| Of the Earl Stanhope who married William
Pitt g sister. Lady Hester Stanhope, shown
| here as O girl, became the mperious lady
visited by Kinglake and described in
-Eothen" as ruling over tribes OF Bedouins.
! Among other artists Of the English school,
born or working in the eighteenth century
and here represented by portraits, are
Beechey, Raeburn, Opie, Francis Wheatley,
Allan Ramsay and Hogarth, the last-named
| by a bust of Lady Portsmouth and an ex-
| ctllent group OF the Walpole family.
Especially deserving OF mention among
work by seventeenth century portraitists
| ia Sir Peter Lely' q fine three-quarter length
of the Duchess of Albemarle, dark-eyed,
graceful and distinguished. 1t is doubt
| less one Of the best Lelys In existence, very
different from the simpering mediocrity
which this fashionable painter usually
achieved.
Also Of this period there are two good
things by William Dobson, portraits of
himself and OF Gen. Monk, the former
notable for the fine quality Of blacks and
grays in the attire. Dobson was discovered
by Van Dyck, and succeeded him as
sergeant painter to that enlightened but
unfortunate collector and connoisseur
King Charles l.
From the examples mentioned 1t will be
obvious that leading British portraitlsts
are excellently Represented here.
Some of the Dutch and Flemish work
at Berkeley House is of high quality, There
are characteristic specimens OF Gabriel
Metsu and Gerard Douw. also Of Dominious
van Tol and Godfried Schalchen, both
pupils of Gerard Douw.
A fine Van der Helst shows sedate and
digniied old burgomsster, whose scanty
tie locks escape from black skull cap.
He Ia seated in a red chair before curtain,
which discloses on the right distant
landscape.
A not dissimilar quality of dignity, though
expressed by the more meticulous hnndi-
craft OF an earlier period, ID displayed
in Tn. de Keyser's large portrait OF Anna
Hunthume, a three-quartef length on panel,
admirably preserved, and formerly in the
collection Of Baron Coubertin Of Paris.
This lady wears the largo run made