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THE 
 
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 THE CAPITAL COLLECTION 
 
 OF 
 
 Uncommonly Choice PAINTINGS, 
 
 THE GENUINE PROPERTY OF 
 
 *A GEJVTEEMJLM 3 ..L'.Jlu// 
 
 Of distinguished and acknowledged Taste; 
 
 COMPRISING THE MOST PERFECT WORKS OF 
 
 ALEX. VERONESE, 
 
 GUIDO, 
 
 GIORGIONE, 
 
 NIC. POUSSIN, 
 SPAGNOLETTO, 
 
 MIGNARD, 
 RUBENS, 
 VAN DYCK, 
 CUYP, 
 BERCHEM, 
 
 VERNET, 
 GERARD DOUW, 
 DE IIUYSCH. 
 
 VAN DE VELDE, 
 GAINSBOROUGH, 
 
 AND OTHER EQUALLY EMINENT MASTERS; 
 
 Forming a small, but valuable ASSEMBLAGE of the WORKS of ART ; 
 
 INCLUDING 
 
 a feto jHarble 33usts, beautifully sculptured. 
 
 W H ICH 
 
 WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, WITHOUT RESERVE, 
 
 ON THE PREMISES, 
 
 20, 
 
 GRAFTON STREET, 
 
 by ' h i 'o i 16 
 
 PETER COXE, BURRELL&FOSTERj, 
 
 On TUESDAY, MAY the 25th, 1802, 
 
 AT TWELVE O’CLOCK. 
 
 
 
 frT Admijfion Catalogues 2s. bd. to be returned to Pur chafers, without which no Perfon can be 
 admitted at the Time of Sale. Admijfion, without a Catalogue, previous to the Sale, One 
 
 Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; and of Messrs. Peter Cone, Burrell, and Foster, 
 . Throgmort on Street. 
 
Coridtttons of §?ale» 
 
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 I A HAT the highest Bidder be the Purchaser; but should any Dispute arife 
 between two or more Bidders, the Lot or Lots, to be put up again 
 and refold. 
 
 II. That no Person advance less on the Paintings than Two Shillings and Sixpence. 
 
 Above Five Pounds, Five Shillings. Above Ten Pounds, Ten Shill¬ 
 ings and Sixpence; Twenty Pounds,One Guinea, andfo on in Proportion. 
 
 III. That the Purchasers give in their Names and Places of Abode, if required; 
 
 and pay down immediately Twenty Pounds per Cent, in Part of the Pur¬ 
 chase Money, and the Remainder on or before the Delivery. 
 
 IV. That the Lots lhall be abfolutely taken away within Two Days after 
 
 the Sale, with all Faults, and under all Descriptions, and at die 
 Expence of the Purchafer. 
 
 And Laftly. That upon Failure of complying with these Conditions, the 
 Money deposited in Part of Payment shall be forfeited ; all Lots 
 uncleared after the Time limited shall be re-sold by Public or Private 
 Sale ; and the Deficiency, if any, attending such Re-sale, together with 
 all Charges, be made good by the Defaulter of the present Sale. 
 
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 THE frequent Opportunity which the Writer of this Catalogue 
 
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 has had of examining and admiring this small, but beautiful 
 Collection of CAPITAL PAINTINGS, rendered the Subject and 
 Stile in which each separate Performance has been treated by the 
 respective Masters familiar to him; and in drawing up this 
 Account of them prior to their being publickly exhibited, lie 
 has had but little Trouble. He has had only to express his pre¬ 
 conceived Sentiments, and those the unbiassed Sentiments of his 
 Mind. Whatever may be the Deficiency of his Description, the 
 Blame must attach to himself, but cannot subtract from the Qua¬ 
 lities of each Performance; confident in this, that in the Exertion 
 of his Duty, as Advocate for his Employers, more has not been 
 said of the Collection than will instantly meet the Eye and Under¬ 
 standing of the discerning, through the irresistible Appeal of the 
 self-convincing Merits of each separate Production. 
 
A 
 
 T A L O G U E, 
 
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 TUESDAY, MAY the 25th, 1802. 
 
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 5 .. S^ - Rembrandt 
 
 2.. 2 ~ Breughel 
 
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 . 2j — Hamilton 
 
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 CAPITAL PAINTINGS . 
 
 1 HoRSES and Dogs, Portraits, a Pair 
 
 2 A Child returning from Gleaning, circular 
 
 3 A Portrait w ~ 
 
 4 A Landfcape with a Building and Figures, by a Gentleman 
 
 Amateur 
 
 5 The Portrait of Frederick the Great, a ftrong Likenefs, ex¬ 
 
 cellently painted 
 
 6 A Girl winding Worfted, a fimple pleafing interefting Subjeft 6 
 
 7 The Circumcifion, after 
 
 8 A fmall Landfcape, a Pair ^ 
 
 9 A Magdalen ^ 
 
 to Views in Italy, a Pair 
 ii The Portrait of Oliver Cromwell 
 
 
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 ,3 .. /a ~ Stalbens 
 
 ■■ ^ — Domenichino 
 /j. Ruyfdael 
 A . /A . <^Guercino 
 ■£~ ^^Raphael 
 Jj .. A ^ Head 
 
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 ^ /^.^uercina 
 J ?.. /P^lemifh 
 S- /^V^Corregio- 
 
 .3. >3 ~ Stoop 
 
 S/ r -'/y r - G ' Head 
 
 ^ ^ ^ Raphael 
 
 Old Wyck 
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 Parmegiano 
 
 y$ ../5~- Perino del Vaga 30 
 
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 . ^Corregio 
 
 ./A Carlo Dolci 
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 12 Cupid Ay^ 
 
 13 A Girl learning her Letters, after ^ 2 —^ 
 
 14 The Interior of a Church with Figures * 
 
 15 St. Cecilia, after Ay*' 
 
 16 Views in Holland, a Pair v^Ay^y^a^-ct- -n y^^s^ 
 
 17 The Sybil, after <— 
 
 18 The Madonia della Sedia, after 
 
 19 A Copy of the St. Jerome of Corregia 
 
 20 Landfcapes, a Pair 
 
 21 A Copy of his famous Picture of Abraham and Hagar 
 
 22 An Interior, fmall Upright, Men Playing at Trictrac 
 
 23 An early Copy of the Marriage of St. Catherine* purchafed at 
 
 Naples yA&——y 
 
 24 A Horfe with Fgures, from the, Collection of Monlieur de 
 
 Calonne 6 cyA^' 
 
 25 Bacchus and Ariadne, as large as Life, with Trees and Land¬ 
 
 scape in the Back Ground, great Merit in the Performance 
 
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 26 A very old and excellent Copy of the celehrated Picture of the 
 
 Holy Family in the Orleans Collection, after 
 
 27 King William the Third on a Charger with an Army in the 
 
 Back-ground, reprefenting the Battle of the Boyne - 
 
 28 A Pair of upright Landfcapes with Figures; very pleafing 
 
 Pictures, and Companions yAo -■> 
 
 29 The Holy Family, a very excellent Performance, from the 
 
 Collection of Monf. de Calonne 
 The Bath of Venus, from the Orleans Collection. There are 
 but few Pictures of this Mailer in the Country, and this 
 Performance is an evidence of his great Abilities ^Ay^~ 
 
 31 A beautiful and the only complete Fac-Simile permitted to be 
 
 taken from that renowned Picture in the Drefden Gallery 
 
 32 A high finilhed excellent Portrait of a Nobleman in a Spanilh 
 
 Drefs, from the Colonna Palace s-sAy^^^y* 
 
 33 A Concert, an early and excellent Specimen of this great 
 
 Mailer’s abilities. 
 

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 35 
 
 An admirable Copy of the celebrated Jupiter and 16 of Corregio ^ /fa.* 
 
 A Boy *vith his Horn Book under his Arm, from Capo di 
 Monte; this Pi&ure has the Seal of the Parma Family 
 attached to it -c . 
 
 36 
 
 //.. & - Cavalieri Pozzi 37 His own Portrait from the Orleans CoIIe&ion 
 
 
 MARBLES. 
 
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 Vernet 
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 A fmall Call of Milo, the Cretonrian 
 
 A fmall whole Length of a fitting Figure of a Female holding 
 her Foot 
 
 Ditto of a Boy taking a Thorn from his Foot 
 Ditto, a Venus drawing off her Veftment, admirably fculp- 
 fculptured 
 
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 Ditto of the Apollo Belvidere, equally excellent 
 
 Ditto, the Venus de Medicis, the deferved Companion - 
 
 A capital Bull of Seneca, fculptured at Rome 6 
 Ditto of the Emperor Caracalla »— 
 
 Ditto of Marcus Tullius Cicero 
 Ditto of Homer 
 
 PICTURES CONTINUED. 
 
 48 A Sea View with Figures, Buildings, Rock and Shipping, 
 the Sun breaking through a Fog, a Morning Scene, excellently 
 painted by this favorite Mailer sl^Z' / 
 
 49 Evening, the Companion, equally well painted 
 
 50 An upright Landfcape, with aCaravanand Figures Travelling, 
 
 a very admirable Picture of this interefting Painter, the 
 Trees green and lively, the Road natural, and the Sky 
 harmonious 
 
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 v 7 '_. Spagnoletto $t Democritus, from the Orleans Collection, an admirably depicted 
 
 Countenance of this laughing Pilofopher, worthy the Pencil 
 of the Mafter, and exprefied with infinite humour 
 6 /.. /tf ^ De HeufcE 52 Landfcape, with Figures, Cattle and Travellers, a beautiful 
 
 4 extended Country, and painted with a fweetnefs of effe£fc 
 
 equal to the Pencil of Both / 
 
 Cuyp 53 A Village on the Sea Coafl, with Boats at the Mouth of 
 
 the River, and a violent Thunder Storm, a fubjedi on which 
 none but a great Mafter would have ventured to exert his 
 Pencil ; a difficult and awful Subjedt, the fhort Waves 
 when the Wind meets the Tide, admirably exprefied, and 
 the War of the Elements he has executed with a daring 
 Pencil, defervingof, and demanded by the Subjedl CXs " 
 
 ~ Van Dyck 54 In this Performance there is the multum in parvo of Perfection,. 
 
 the very Spirit and Eftence of the Mafter. A dignified Sub¬ 
 ject on a fmall Scale, a finilhed Performance for his renowned 
 Work at Ghent, in which this elegant Artift has difplayed 
 the thorough knowledge of the naked, with the Effedt of the 
 pale View of Death faithfully delineated '— 
 
 His own Portrait, from the Orleans Colledlion 
 Entitled Gerard Douw’s Mother, an exquifitely beautiful, per- 
 fedf Cabinet Picture of fingular Merit in every minute Part, 
 and demands’ the Attention of the judicious Obferver for 
 Qualities that are raoft ftriking 
 
 A capital Sketch, evidently intended to be made a finiftied 
 Pidlure by the Attention he has paid to the Drawing and 
 Defign, the female Figure is peculiarly graceful, and the va¬ 
 rious Attitudes of the male Figures difcover at firft View the 
 great Hand of the Mafter 
 
 A Calm, a fmall but beautiful Cabinet Performance, with a 
 Variety of Veflels and Ships full of Figures ; a Pidlure of rare 
 Merit of this moft elegant and admired Sea Painter. From 
 the Colledlion of the Earl of Bute ^ //r 
 
 — Pordfcnoni 
 — Gerrard Douw 
 
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 Jupiter and Califta. This lingular unique Pidture is managed 
 with judicious Effedt, the Light and Shade is as grand as 
 Michael Angelo Carravaggio, and the Story admirably well 
 told *— 
 
 The Holy Family with St. John and a Group of Angels in a 
 Landfcape. Throughout this very interfiling Performance 
 there is a fweet Sobriety and general Eifedl of Colour truly 
 delightful, and it is unquellionably the very bed Specimen of 
 this pleading Mailer,—the Landfcape and Figures in a happy 
 uni foil of Propriety and Effect 
 
 A moll petfe£l Work of this excellent Artill, and on a fcale 
 of Size of which there are but few of his Performances in 
 the Country.—The Scene, the interior of a Chamber, a 
 Cavalier Sitting and Converfing by the Side of a Lady, w ho 
 is drinking out of a Glafs, through the Tranfparency of 
 which, the Carnations of her Countenance are fweetly 
 difeerned, with another Female Figure in the Foreground, 
 to whofe Drefs the Artill has bellowed that Attention and 
 Succefs, which has given 10 a favorite Palfage in his Pictures ; 
 Sattin Drapery, the fac fimileof w'hat he intended to deferibe, 
 as if taken from th' Loom, not created from the Colors of 
 
 his own Pallat.-It is truly admirable and faultlefs 
 
 The Story of Diana and A&eon ; the Subjedl colored and 
 Drawn with his ufual excellence, and with that attention 
 to the Naked in various Attitudes, for the judicious 
 Management of which, he has been invariably celebrated ; 
 a truly capital Performance , 
 
 A w r hole-length Figure, with a grand Landfcape in the Back- 
 "r ground. This moll incomparable Performance ranks this 
 very celebrated Mailer among the Firll Clafs of Painters, 
 both Antient and Modern. It has the Grace and Elegance 
 of Van Dyck in the Figure, with a Countenance as forcibly 
 expreded and rich as Morillio, with the Management of 
 Titian, and is a Pidlure whiph cannot be too highly fpoken 
 of or too much admired 
 
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 Mafter, painted for Madam do Barry, in the Zenith of her 
 Power, with all the Attention his great Art could beftow in 
 the full Vigour of his inimitable Pencil. The Agitation of 
 the Sea tremendous, the Figures admirable, and the whole 
 Scene grand and uncommonly awful, and fee ms to realize 
 the Words of the Poet— 
 
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 Where Ocean groaning from his loweft Bed, 
 
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 65 The Daughter of Herodias—a celebrated Pidure in the Or* 
 
 leans Colledion. A Pidure of great and deferved Fame. 
 
 A dignified Compofition, and coloured with that Richnefs of 
 Effed which was one of this renowned Matter’s great Excel¬ 
 lencies. It is a noble Performance 
 
 66 Landfcape and Figures-r-a Cottage Scene—embofomed in 
 
 Trees, where the chief Attention is drawn to the Human 
 , Figure in a Number of Children at a Cottage Door, while 
 the diftant Landfcape, though fubordinate, is extremely 
 beautiful. The Tout Enfemble is an admirable Proof how 
 much Gainsborough was impreffed with the Subjed in the 
 Contemplation of thefe interetting Scenes of humble Life, 
 and to what Perfedion he could bring them together on his 
 inimitable Canvas, and with what Spirit and Truth. This 
 is a capital Work of this great Painter 
 67 The Virgin and Child, a very celebrated Pidure, the Devo- 
 tion of the Virgin in contemplating the fleeping Inno¬ 
 cence, the Divinity and Compofure of the Savior is admi¬ 
 rably executed, and the Figure of the Infant Savior of 
 Mankind, accomplifhed with that Sweetnefs of Colour 
 andJJoundnefs, fo remarkably difplayed in the perfection of 
 infantine Beauty, from the Colledion of Monf de Calonne v 
 
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 68 A Nymph fleeping, with Satyrs admiring her, with Architec¬ 
 
 ture and Landfcape and numerous attendant Figures, the 
 Nymphs beautifully drawn and coloured, and the whole 
 Bufinefs of the Pi&ure attended to with his ufual Excel¬ 
 lence, and has always been confidered a firft rate Perform¬ 
 ance of the Mafter 
 
 69 A JLandfcape with a Hoife and repofing Cattle, and a view of 
 
 the Town of Dordrecht in the diftance. In this aftonifhing 
 effort of this wonderful Painter’s Pencil, the Artift has 
 chofen for the time of year the feafon of the Summer folftice, 
 and has introduced a grand Sky with the fublime effed of the 
 burfling of a cloud furcharged with ele&ric fluid, the Cattle, 
 beautiful and corredly drawn, feem oppreffed with the heat 
 of the day, the Country parched, the whole fcene true to 
 Nature, and painted with a vigour and freedom of Pencil, 
 and with that eye to keeping an effed, for which he Hands 
 unrivalled ; it is an admirable Performance, and evinces the 
 commanding powers of his art +1^+^ 
 
 70 A Sea view, Figures on a Pier, Windmill, and Veffels at 
 
 Anchor, a Moonlight, the Companion. Whatever fubjed 
 Cuyp undertakes he is equally true to Nature and equally 
 excellent, there is a ftillnefs in this Pidure, with an appa¬ 
 rent frefhnefs of Air, finely contrafled with the preceding 
 Performance, with a fweet and folemn effect of Moonlight, 
 from under a clouded Sky that is inexpreffively captivating. 
 
 Here every thing is delightful, the Sea is apparently in 
 motion by the influence of the Tide, and there is a charm of 
 colour pervades the whole that is in unifon with the fubjed, 
 and impreffes the mind in looking attentively at this intereft- 
 ing Performance with that fenfation of fober thought 
 abftraded from the World, which Nature in thefe Hill mo¬ 
 ments and retired fcenes, invariably infpires - 
 

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 71 The Loves of the Centaurs, a mod perfeft Work of his 
 immortal Pencil, replete with all that proper glow and 
 harmony of Colouring judicioufly blended, animated but 
 not gawdy, which ranks him in the edeem of his bed 
 Judges pre-eminent in the Art. It is a Cabinet Picture of 
 fuperior excellence, admirably managed throughout, and 
 ■with a difcretion refpedting the Subject mod happily ex¬ 
 ecuted. The Landfcape is mod delightful, and bears away the 
 palm of Excellence from all his other Performances. This 
 Pidlure was painted when Rubens was in Italy, and was 
 always edeemed when on Cladlc ground the ne plus Ultra 
 of Perfeaion.^^O^-'^^^^^ 
 
 
 
 
 FINIS . 
 
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