THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD’S GALLERY
From The London Magazine, February 1823.
27. Forked mountain. Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Sc. 12.
Volume of the brain. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5.
Life is as a [lasting] storm. Pericles, Act IV. Sc. 1.
[28]. Lord Bacon exclaims ... poems of Homer. In the Advancement of Learning, Book I. VIII. 6.
[29]. A book sealed. Cf. Revelation, V. i.
Hoole’s Version. John Hoole’s (1727–1803) translations of Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, and Arioto’s Orlando Furioso were published in 1763 and 1783 respectively.
[30]. David. Jacques Louis David (1748–1825). During the Revolution he supported Robespierre, but later he became first painter to the first Napoleon.
The foremost man in all this world. Julius Caesar, Act IV. Sc. 3.
Monsieur Talleyrand. Charles Maurice Talleyrand de Périgord, Prince de Bénévent (1754–1838), De Quincey’s ‘rather middling bishop, but very eminent knave.’
PAGE
[30]. The late Lord Castlereagh. Lord Castlereagh had committed suicide in a fit of insanity in 1822. See vol. III. Political Essays, pp. 102–3, and note to p. [36] etc.
[31]. Barry. James Barry (1741–1806). See Hazlitt’s article on him, p. [413] et seq.
Collins. Probably Richard Collins (1755–1831), who was chief miniature and enamel painter to George III.
And o’er-informed the tenement of clay. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I. 158.
[32]. Like an exhalation Comus, 556.
[33]. Which of you copied the other? Said of Menander by Aristophanes of Byzantium.
Note. Cleveland-House. Near Stable Yard, St. James’s, now called Bridgewater House. It was bought by the Duke of Bridgewater in 1730.
[34]. Albano. Francesco Albani (1578–1660), of Bologna, the friend of Guido Reni, and his fellow-student under the Carracci.
Moroni. Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520–1578), of Bondio, in the province of Bergamo, one of the greatest of portrait painters.
Milk of human kindness. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5.
Pordenone. Giovanni Antonio Licinio (1483–1539), of Pordenone, near Udine.
Tintoretto. Jacopo Robusti, or Tintoretto, from his father’s trade, dyeing (1519–1594), the head of Venetian sixteenth century painting.
Note. The late Mr. Curran. John Philpot Curran, the famous orator, had died in 1817.
[35]. Palma Vecchio. Jacopo Palma (1480–1528), of Serinalta, in the province of Bergamo. He is associated with Giorgione and Titian in the reform of the Venetian school.
Bassan. Jacopo da Ponte, Il Bassano (1519–1592), a follower of Titian, and a member of a family of north Italian painters.
Luca Cambiasi. Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585), of Moneglia, near Genoa, whose greatest work, The Rape of the Sabines, is in the Imperial Palace, at Terralba, near Genoa.
Alessandro Veronese. Alessandro Turchi (1582–c. 1648), of Verona.
Domenichino. Domenico Zampieri (1581–1641), of Bologna, a pupil of the Carracci.
Le Nain. Antoine and Louis Le Nain (b. 1588 and 1593 respectively), of Laon. They painted pictures of rustic life together.
Metzu. Gabriel Metsu (1630–1667), a genre painter, of Leyden. He was a pupil of Dou.
Douw. Gerard Dou (1613–1675), of Leyden, one of the greatest of Dutch painters of humble life.
[36]. Vangoyen. Jan van Goyen (1596–1666), of Leyden, one of the earliest of Dutch landscape painters.
With yellow tufted banks.
‘The slow canal, the yellow-blossomed vale,
The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sale.’
Goldsmith, The Traveller, 293–4.