CONTENTS.

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Allston, Washington[1]
His Opinion of his own Painting.[2]
Bartolozzi, Francesco, R.A.[2]
Interview with George III.[4]
Beechey, Sir William, R.A.[5]
Interview with Holcroft[5]
Chantrey, Sir Francis, R.A.[6]
Chantrey’s Prices[7]
Horne Tooke[7]
Equestrian Figures[8]
Candid Opinion[9]
Fashion[9]
Collins, William, R.A.[12]
Complaint against the Hanging Committee[14]
“The Bird Catchers”[15]
Haydon’s “Judgment of Solomon”[16]
Samuel T. Coleridge[17]
The Painter’s Sympathisers[19]
Constable, John, R.A.[10]
Archdeacon Fisher[12]
Constable’s Pleasantry[12]
Copley, John Singleton, R.A.[20]
Portrait Painting[21]
David, Jacques Louis[22]
His Marriage[22]
His Cruelty[24]
His Excessive Vanity[25]
Danton’s Features[25]
David and Napoleon[25]
David and the Emperor’s Portrait[26]
Denon, Dominique Vivant[26]
Naïveté of Talleyrand’s Wife[28]
Denon’s Curiosities[28]
Flaxman, John, R.A.[29]
His Obliging Disposition[30]
Fuseli, Henry, R.A.[31]
His Cat[32]
His Gaiters[33]
The Drama[33]
Noisy Students[34]
The Yorkshireman[34]
Richardson’s Novels[35]
Classical Attainments[35]
Gainsborough, Thomas, R.A.[36]
The Conceited Alderman[36]
The Artist’s Independence[37]
His Letter to the Duke of Bedford[37]
Mrs. Siddons’s Nose[38]
Conclusive Evidence[38]
The German Professor[39]
The Artist’s Retort to the Lawyer[40]
Gordon, Sir John Watson, R.A.[40]
Lord Palmerston and the Artist[41]
Harlowe, George Henry[42]
Taking a Likeness under Difficulties[42]
Haydon, Benjamin Robert[43]
Introduction to Fuseli[46]
London Smoke[47]
His Description of the British School of Painters [48]
Hayman, Francis, R.A.[48]
Gluttony[49]
Marquis of Granby and the Noble Art[50]
The Painter’s Friendship for Quin[50]
Hogarth, William[51]
Wilkes and Churchill[54]
Garrick’s Generosity[55]
Caricature[56]
Wilkes[56]
Hogarth’s Conceit[57]
An Ugly Sitter[57]
Hoppner, John, R.A.[58]
An Eccentric Customer[59]
The Alderman’s Lady[60]
A Cool Sitter[61]
Ibbetson, Julius Cæsar[61]
The Toper’s Reply[62]
The Recognition[63]
Inman, Henry[64]
Jervas, Charles[70]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua[70]
Dr. Arbuthnot[70]
Vanity[71]
Lady Bridgwater[71]
The Painter’s Generosity[71]
Hints to Pope on Painting[72]
Kneller, Sir Godfrey[73]
Royal Patronage[74]
Radcliffe, Dr.[74]
Origin of the Kit-Cat Club[75]
Portrait Painting[76]
Cut at Pope[76]
A Country Sitter[76]
Vandyke and Kneller[76]
Tonson, the Bookseller[77]
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, P.R.A.[77]
Royal Favours[79]
Miss Fanny Kemble[80]
Hoaxing Lawrence[81]
Fuseli’s Envy[82]
His Professional Practice[82]
Liotard, John Stephen[84]
Liverseege, Henry[85]
A Dear Model[86]
Lotherbourg, Philip James de, R.A.[87]
Gilray[88]
Loutherbourg’s Eccentricity[89]
Attitude is Everything[89]
Opie, John, R.A.[89]
The Affected Sitter[90]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, P.R.A.[91]
Astley[91]
Reynolds on Art[92]
Johnson’s Portrait[92]
Reynolds’s Sundays[93]
Dr. Johnson[93]
Garrick’s Pleasantry[94]
Duchess of Marlborough[94]
Pope[95]
Michael Angelo[95]
Reynolds’s Study[96]
Dr. Johnson’s Opinion of Artists[96]
Reynolds’s Discourses[97]
Garrick’s Portraits[97]
Sir Joshua’s Generosity[97]
An Epicure’s Advice[98]
Lord Mansfield[98]
Roubiliac, Louis Francis[98]
Goldsmith[99]
Roubiliac’s Honesty[100]
Bernini[100]
Lord Shelburne[100]
Dr. Johnson[101]
Roubiliac’s Poetic Effusions[102]
Rylan, William Wynne[103]
Magnanimity[103]
Self-Possession[104]
Red Chalk Engravings[104]
Teniers, David: Father and Son[105]
Teniers at the Village Alehouse[105]
West, Benjamin, P.R.A.[108]
Leigh Hunt[109]
John Constable[112]
William Woollet[112]
James Northcote[113]
Youthful Ambition[114]
Perseverance in Art[115]
Wilkie, Sir David, R.A.[115]
“Letter of Introduction”[119]
Collins’s Reminiscences of Wilkie[119]
Arrest at Calais[120]
His Opinion of Michael Angelo and Raphael[122]
Wilson, Richard, R.A.[123]
A Scene at Christie’s[124]
Zoffany, Johann, R.A.[124]
The Royal Picture[127]
The “Cock Fight”[127]
MISCELLANEOUS ANECDOTES, ETC.
The Royal Academy, Burlington House[129]
Fonthill Collection[130]
The Strawberry Hill Collection[132]
The Saltmarshe Collection[134]
The Stowe Collection[135]
The Bernal Collection[136]
Sale of Daniel O’Connell’s Library, etc.[138]
Holbein[140]
Palladio, Andrew[141]
Callot’s Etchings[142]
The Female Face[143]
London in the Seventeenth Century[144]
Tardif, the French Connoisseur[146]
Paul Potter’s Studies of Nature[147]
Fidelity in Portrait Painting[148]
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode[148]
Barry’s Contempt for Portrait Painting[149]
Barry’s Eccentricity[149]
The Royal Prisoner[150]
Athenian Stuart[151]
Prudhon and Canova[151]
Revolution an Enemy to Art[152]
Serres and Vernet[153]
The Heroic Painter[154]
Vernet and Voltaire[155]
Pistrucci’s Ready Ingenuity[155]
Charles Townley[156]
The Townley Marbles[156]
Blucher taken by Limners[157]
Cost of a Picture[158]
Resuscitated Celebrities[158]
Two Gormandizers[159]
The Artist Illustrated[160]
The Double Surprised[161]
The Ideal Part of Painting[162]
Satan at a Premium[163]
Love of the Picturesque[164]
The Dutch Painter and his Customers[165]
Painting a Sky[166]
Variety of Skies[168]
Slang of Artists[169]
A Picture Dealer’s Knowledge of Geography[170]
On Study of Antiquities[170]
The Reserve[171]
Gallantry of Antiquaries[171]
Poets and Painters[172]
Freedom of Opinion[173]
The Connoisseur Taken In[174]
No Connoisseur[175]
The Uncourtly Medalist[175]
Connoisseurs[176]
Old Books[176]
Extra Love of Antiquity[176]
How to be a Connoisseur[177]
The Chandos Portrait of Shakspeare[177]
The Felton Portrait of Shakspeare[178]
Parisian Caricaturists[179]
Italian Pottery and Glass Making[180]
The Portland Vase[182]
A Lost Art[183]
Fans[184]
The Trials of a Portrait Painter[192]
Seddon’s Picture of “Jerusalem”[194]
A Great Picture and its Vicissitudes[196]
The Frescoes in the Houses of Parliament[198]
The Riding Master and the Elgin Marbles[200]
A Hallowed Spot[201]

ART AND ARTISTS.

ALLSTON (WASHINGTON).

WASHINGTON ALLSTON was born at Charleston, in South Carolina, on the 5th November, 1779, of a family distinguished in the history of that State. He entered Harvard College in 1796, and graduated in 1800. While at college he developed in a marked manner a love of music, poetry, and painting. On leaving college, he returned to South Carolina, having determined to devote his life to the fine arts, and embarked for London in 1801. On his arrival, he became a student of the Royal Academy, and formed an intimacy with his countryman, Benjamin West, who was its president. After three years in London, he paid visits to Paris and Rome, and in 1809 returned to America. Two years afterwards, we find him again in England, where his reputation as an artist was now completely established. In 1818 he returned to America, making Boston his home.