Belsyse, in Middlesex, is situated on the south west side of Hampstead hill, and was a fine seat belonging to the Lord Wotton, and afterwards to the late Earl of Chesterfield: but in the year 1720, it was converted into a place of polite entertainment, particularly for music, dancing, and play, when it was much frequented on account of its neighbourhood to London: but since that time it has been suffered to run to ruin.

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Belvedere House.

Belvedere House, this belongs to Sampson Gideon, Esq; is situated on the brow of a hill, near Erith in Kent, and commands a vast extent of a fine country many miles beyond the Thames, which is about a mile and half distant. This river and navigation add greatly to the beauty of this scene, which exhibits to the eye of the delighted spectator, as pleasing a landskip of the kind as imagination can form. The innumerable ships employed in the immense trade of London, are beheld continually sailing up and down the river. On the other side are prospects not less beautiful, tho’ of another kind. This gentleman has very judiciously laid out his grounds, and made many beautiful vistas. The house is but small, tho’ an addition has been made of a very noble room; this and two others are finely furnish’d with pictures, of which follows a catalogue. The collection, though not numerous, is very valuable, it containing none but pieces which are originals by the greatest masters, and some of them very capital.

In the Long Parlour.

Height. Feet Inc.Breadth. Feet Inc.Painted by
View of Venice
Ditto, with the Doge marrying the sea2.4 6Canaletti.
Its companion
Time bringing truth to light, a sketch2 53 0Rubens.
The Alchymist3 14 2Teniers.
Portrait of Sir John Gage3 12 7Holbein.
A landskip2 02 4G. Poussin.
Battle of the Amazons1 11 6Rottenhammer.
The unjust Steward2 74 6Quintin Matsys.

In the Lobby.

Noah’s Ark1 92 10Velvet Brughel.
St. Catherine2 62 0Leonardo da Vinci.
Van Trump2 102 4Francis Hals.
Vulcan, or the element of Fire4 65 9Bassan.
A picture of horses, its companion1 81 4Wouverman.
Two insides of churches, small0 00 0De Neef.
A Dutch woman and her three children1 91 6Sir Ant. More.
Rembrant painting an old woman2 102 0by himself.
A courtezan and her gallant2 42 4Giorgione.
The golden age2 03 2Velvet Brughel.
Snyders with his wife and child5 44 0Rubens.
Rebecca bringing presents to Laban4 63 2De la Hyre.
Boors at cards2 02 0Teniers.
The element of Earth4 65 9Jai. Bassan.
Marriage in Cana of Gallilee4 05 0P. Veronese.
Two landskips2 03 2G. Poussin.
The genealogy of Christ3 02 3Albert Durer.
Beggar boys at cards2 01 4Salvator Rosa.
Herod consulting the wisemen1 42 8Rembrant.
Marriage of St. Catherine2 83 2Old Palma.
two fine bas relievos in brass, one Bacchus and Ariadne, the other Ceres teaching Triptolemus the use of the plough by Soldani

In the Saloon.

The conception, painted for an altar piece7 87 8Murillo.
The flight into Egypt, its companion Ditto.
Vulcan, Venus, Cupid, and sundry5 68 4Tintoret.
figures, an emblematic subject
Mars and Venus5 84 3P. Veronese.
Christ among the Doctors5 26 6L. Giordano.
Duke of Buckingham’s mistress, her5 85 6by himself.
three children, and a son of Rubens
A landskip4 106 2Claude.
Leopold’s gallery Teniers.
Teniers, own gallery, its companion3 24 2Ditto.