CHAPTER XI
November 2. Numbered XII.
163. I also am a painter. See Vasari’s Lives (ed. Blashfield and Hopkins), III. 32, note 28.
Roubilliac. Louis Francis Roubilliac (d. 1762). See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, p. 89 and note thereto.
[164]. Bernini. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), painter, sculptor, and architect, the Michael Angelo of his day.
And when I think that his immortal wings. Heaven and Earth, Part I. Scene 1.
[165]. Thinly scattered to make up a shew. Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Sc. 1.
The Chevalier Canova. Antonio Canova, Venetian sculptor (1757–1822) was commissioned by the Roman Government in 1815, after the fall of the Napoleonic Empire, to recover the art treasures that had been taken to France.
Note. He heard it. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto IV. 141.
[166]. Vestris. Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, Madame Vestris (1797–1856), the famous actress, subsequently wife of the younger Mathews. See vol. VIII. A View of the English Stage, p. 327 and note.
[167]. Razzi. Giovanni Antonio dei Razzi of Piedmont (1477–1549).
Cortot. Jean Pierre Cortot (1787–1843). The Virgin and Child was painted for the Cathedral of Arras.
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[167]. Espercieux. Jean Joseph Espercieux (1758–1840).
Chaudet. Antoine Denis Chaudet (1763–1810).
[168]. Gayrard. Raymond Gayrard (1777–1858).