e is an
exquisite drawing of it by Wright, for the purpose of a stipling
engraving.]

[184] It was purchased by the late King of France for 10,000 francs.

[185] [Purchased for the gallery at ALTHORP.]

[186] The above quotation is incomplete; for the passage alluded to runs
thus.--"Where is the painter so well sorting his colours, that could
paint these faire eyes that are the _windows of the body, and glasses
of the soul_." The continuation is in a very picturesque style. See
the _Theatre or Rule of the World_, p. 236-7, quoted in a recent
(1808) edition of _More's Utopia_, vol. ii. p. 143. But _Primaudaye's
French Academy_, Lond. 1605, 4to. runs very much in the same strain.

[187] A little graphic history belongs to this picture. I obtained a most
beautiful and accurate copy of it by M. Le Coeure, on a reduced scale:
from which Mr. J. Thomson made an Engraving, as a PRIVATE PLATE, and
only 75 copies were struck off. The plate was then destroyed; the
impressions selling for a guinea. They are now so rare as to be worth
treble that sum: and proofs upon India paper, before the letter, may
be worth L5. 5s. Three proofs only were struck off of the plate in its
_mutilated_ state; of which my friends Mr. Haslewood and Mr. G. H.
Freeling rejoice in their possession of a copy. The drawing, by
Coeure, was sold for 20 guineas at the sale of my drawings, by Mr.
Evans, in 1822, but it has been subsequently sold for only _nine_
guineas; and of which my worthy friend A. Nicholson, Esq.--"a good
man, and a true"--is in the possession.

Subsequently, the ABOVE ORIGINAL picture was sold; and I was too happy
to procure it for the gallery at Althorp for _twelve_ guineas only!

[188] [A magnificent whole length portrait of this first DUKE DE GUISE,
painted by PORBUS--with a warmth and vigour of touch, throughout,
which are not unworthy of Titian--now adorns the very fine gallery at
Althorp: where is also a whole length portrait of ANNE OF AUSTRIA, by
Mignard. Both pictures are from the same Collection; and are each
probably the masterpiece of the artist. They are of the size of life.]

[189] [Mr. Craufurd died at Paris in 1821.]

[190] ["Amateurs, connaisseurs, examinateurs, auteurs de revues du Salon,
parodistes meme, vous n'entendez rien a ce genre de critique; prenez
M. Dibdin pour modele: voila' la _bonne ecole_