THE DULWICH GALLERY
From The London Magazine, Jan. 1823.
17. When yellow leaves. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, LXXIII [those boughs].
Allen. John Allen, M.D. (1771–1843), one of the staff of The Edinburgh Review, was warden of Dulwich College, 1811–1820, and master,
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1820–1843. He is chiefly now remembered as the friend and factotum of Lord Holland.
[17]. Constrained by mastery. Cf. ‘That Love will not submit to be controlled by mastery,’ Wordsworth, The Excursion, VI. 163, 164.
Green and yellow melancholy. Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4.
[18]. Julio Romano. Giulio Dei Giannuzzi, of Rome (1492–1546), Raphael’s apprentice and best pupil.
Sir Francis Bourgeois. Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1756–1811), landscape painter to George III. and painter to the King of Poland. He acquired the collection of Desenfans (see note to p. [19]) and bequeathed 371 pictures to Dulwich College, endowing the Gallery also.
[19]. Mr. Desenfans. Noel Joseph Desenfans (1745–1807), of French birth, whose collection of pictures, bought for a Polish National Gallery, had to be sold when Poland was dismembered.
Shed [casting] a dim ... religious light. Milton, Il Penseroso, 160.
Cuyp. Aelbert Cuyp (1605–1691), the Dutch Claude.
Carlo Maratti. Of Camurano, in Ancona (1625–1713), etcher and painter.
What a delicious breath painting [marriage] sends forth. Middleton’s Women Beware Women, Act III. Sc. 1.
Berkeley. George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1685–1753), whose Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge, wherein he sets forth his philosophical speculations on Matter and Spirit, was published in 1710.
Palpable [sensible] to feeling as to sight. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 1.
The eye is made the fool. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 1.
So potent art. Tempest, Act V. Sc. 1.
[20]. Teniers. David Teniers (1610–1694), of Antwerp, painter of scenes of peasant life.
Adrian Brouwer. Of Haarlem or Oudenaerde (c. 1605–1638), painter of Dutch interiors.
Potations pottle deep. Othello, Act II. Sc. 3.
Ostade. Adriaen Janzoon van Ostade (1610–1685), of Haarlem, painter of peasant scenes. His brother, Isack van Ostade (1621–1649), was also a painter.
Polemberg. Cornells van Poelenburgh, of Utrecht (1586–1667), landscape and portrait painter.
Crespi. Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747), of Bologna.
Sanadram. Probably Pieter Saenredam (1597–1665), of Assendelft, who is known for his large church interiors.
Backhuysen. Ludolf Bakhuisen (1631–1708), of Emden, the celebrated painter of sea-storms.
Vandervelde. Willem Van de Velde (1633–1707), the younger, the greatest Dutch marine painter. He lies buried in St. James’s Church, Piccadilly.
Both. Jan Both (c. 1610–c. 1662), of Utrecht. The cattle and figures in his landscapes were usually added by his brother Andries (c. 1609–c. 1644).
[21]. Jordaens. ?Jakob Jordaens (1593–1678), of Antwerp.
Sacchi. Andrea Sacchi (d. 1661), of Nettuno, near Rome; Carlo Maratti (see note to p. [19]) was one of his pupils.
Beechey. Sir William Beechey (1753–1839), portrait painter to Queen Charlotte.
Wouvermans. Philips Wouverman (?1614–1668), of Haarlem, celebrated for his paintings of horses.
[22]. Ruysdael. Jakob van Ruysdael (c. 1630–1682), of Haarlem, landscape painter.
Hobbima. Meindert Hobbema (1638–1709), Dutch landscape painter.
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[23]. Entire affection scorneth [hateth] nicer hands. Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I. VIII. 40.
Berchem. Nicolaas Pietersz, commonly called Berchem (1620–1683), of Haarlem, landscape painter, whose work is characterised by much delicacy of composition.
Watteau. Antoine Watteau (1684–1721).
[24]. Body and limbs ... add what flourishes. Cf. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.
Grand caterers and wet-nurses of the state [dry nurse of the church]. Cowper, The Task, II. 371.
Under the shade. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7.
Salvator Rosa. Of Renella, near Naples (1615–1673).
[25]. He has had his reward. S. Matthew, VI. 2.
Andrea del Sarto. Andrea d’Agnolo (his father was a tailor, whence his better-known name), of Florence (1487–1531), the ‘faultless painter.’
What lacks it then? Cf. S. Matthew XIX. 20.
Le Brun. Charles Le Brun (1619–1690), French historical painter. He was one of the principal founders of the Academy, the first director of the Gobelins manufactory, and did much of the decoration of Versailles.
Wilson. Richard Wilson (1714–1782), one of the greatest of English landscape painters.
Guercino. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, the squint-eyed (1591–1666), of Cento, in the Ferrarese country.
Francesco Mola. Pietro Francesco Mola (1612–1668), a follower of the Venetian School.
[26]. Giorgione. Giorgio Barbarelli (c. 1476–1511), of Castelfranco, a fellow-student of Titian, and one of the greatest of the Venetian painters.
Guido. Guido Reni (1575–1642), of Calvenzo, near Bologna.
Vanderwerf. Adriaan van der Werff (1659–1722), of Rotterdam.
P. Veronese. Paolo Caliari (1528–1588), of Verona.
Morales. Luis de Morales (d. 1586), of Badajoz, ‘the divine,’ a follower of Michael Angelo and Leonardo da Vinci.