THE PICTURES AT WINDSOR CASTLE
From The London Magazine, March 1823
36. A line of Kings. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 1.
The oak of Herne the hunter. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V. Sc. 5.
[37]. The proud Keep of Windsor. A Letter to a Noble Lord, (Works, Bohn, V. 137).
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[37]. Verrio. Antonio Verrio (1639–1707), of Lecce, near Otranto. He was employed at Windsor under Charles II. and James II., and at Hampton Court under Anne.
West. Benjamin West (1738–1820), of Pennsylvania. He succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 as President of the Royal Academy.
Zuccarelli. Francesco Zuccarelli (c. 1702–1788), of Tuscany. He was one of the founders of the Royal Academy.
[38]. Clear-spirited thought.
Cf. ‘Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise.’
Milton, Lycidas, 70.
Mrs. Hutchinson’s admirable Memoirs. Lucy Hutchinson’s memoirs of her husband, the Puritan Colonel, were first published in 1806.
Lely. Pieter van der Faes (1618–1680). His father changed the name to Lely. He was made a baronet by Charles II.
[39]. Kneller. He was born at Lübeck in 1646, made a fortune in England as a portrait painter, was knighted in 1692, made a baronet in 1715, and died in 1723. Pope wrote an epitaph for his monument in Westminster Abbey.
Ramsay. Allan Ramsay, portrait painter (1713–1784), son of ‘the Gentle Shepherd.’
[40]. The Misers. See vol. II. Characteristics, p. 417.
Quintin Matsys. Quentin Massys (1466–1531), of Louvain, the painter of The Entombment, in the Museum at Antwerp.
The still, small voice of reason. Cf. Cowper, The Task, v. 687, and 1 Kings xix. 12.
[41]. Denner. Balthasar Denner (1685–1749), of Hamburg.