The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-06
FAMOUS PORTRAITS
WILL BE SOLD HERE
important English Collection
to BE Disposed Of Owing
to the War.
RAEBURN IS REPRESENTED

o,o NJ tho first important art sales Of
rc season OF 1915 will DO that OF the
,riyate collection Of early English and
o.hc- psiniings formed by the late +. A. q.
Hood. Esd. Dorset Square. London, to be
,old here by order of his son. q. +, w.
uoo1 ESD. OF Fern Bank. Etterby.
Carlisle. England. who disposes of the col
lection owing to conditions brought about
Nv me European war. The sale will be
under the management of the American
A., Association and will probably be held
early in January.
This collection was formed many years
aeo and the pictures were chosen with
discrimination and Judgment by the late
owner. VINO was always disposed to SUBJ
nit his selections to the test of informed
criticism and accept only worthy and
authentic examples. Mr. Hoods collec-
ton is not large numerically. numbering
some sixty pictures. hut II contains ex-
emples of importance which are OF
artistic as well rs of historical interest.
Among the more important pictures are
Portrait. the Hon. Mrs. Bushell, by Sir
Henry Racburn. Exhibited at the Rae
burn exhibition. Edinburgh, 1876, under
the anonymous title "The Old Lady With
the Large Cap" Praised by Robert
Louis Stevenson in ''Nirglnbus Puerisque"
In the essay Some Portraits by Raebui n"
There are some capital old women,
such as Mrs Colin Campbell OF Park or
the anonymous Old Lady with Large
Can which are done In the same frank
persplcac!ous spirit as the very best of his
men. He could look into their eyes with
out trouble and he was not withheld by
any bashful sentimentalism from recog-
MIXING what he saw there and unsparingly
IANtsW IN
Stevenson
Reproduced in coiors in London Con.
sossour for December, 1919
"Diane and Endymlon.-
Diane and Endymion. by y. ~ Coypel
superb example OF eighteenth century
French art which has excited the utmost
admiration among collectors who have
examined II. The Marquis of Her,fo~d
was most anxious to have this pi, :ure for
his house in Paris.
(Lord Hartford was OF course the
original founder of the wonderful coliec-
ton atterward left to the nation and now
known as the Wallace CollectionD
Portrait--John Willet, Rear Admiral of
the Red. Vice Admiral of the coasts Of
Devonshire ami Cornwall Lord Warden
Of the Summaries, by Gilbert Stuart.
Portrait Il Sir Joshua REYNOLDS
10 $. lowering. Esq. and left by him
70 his son. S. Bowerng I'd who be-
oueathed II 10 his son. S. lowering Sd.
Given by him TO his niece, Mrs Charles
Hall. from whom the late owner pur-
chased IT, Over score of portraits
Of Sir Joshua by himself are known Ia
collectors This one most closely re-
sembles the one in which he wears a
painters hat. now hanging In the Ma
tional Gallery.
william Russell. Duke OF Bedford. X
q X. a.. +. c.. by r. van der Helst
General OF horse during the Civil War
Born 1914. Died 1900. DIR. Waagen
vol .. page 227. AN excellent work
time From the Hon Edmond Phipps
collection.
Portrait--Ths Countess de Bethunc-
Hesiigneul. by MiEnard.
LandsCape-The Vale of AvoCa, County
Wicklow ireland. by John Llnnel. Stl
Walter Scott truly says: Were scenes
Of such surprising beauty on English
shores they would be "A worlds wonder
II on the Mediterranean, the Baltic OF
away in Egypt tourists would flock e
them In hundreds
Shakespeare Nursed by the Tragic ant
Comic MUSES., by the Rev. william
Peters pd4Illtu IoI Ivy NNa'
This picture has singular history
Boydel commissioned Peters 20 paint sly
pictures for his monumental edition o.
Shakespeare This one, which was Il
form the frontispiece was on Peterss ease
at the time of his wlfe's death. TIT
painter was so .iistraught at his loss tina
he felt unable to compete II AT th'
time required and Boydell engaged Rom
ney TO execute his well known version +"
the same subjec: The two pictures. ~
widely different In conception and treat
ment make interesting subjects Tor com
pari.or. The figure of Tragedy in thu
picture is a portrait of Mary Isabella
youngest daughter OF Charles, fourth
Duke Of Beaufort, afterwam VIE
Charles, fourth, Duke Of Rutland
Portrait by Beechey.
Portrait OF Lieut.. Col. the Hon fran
ltgt