As Rousseau prided himself. Les Confessions, Partie II. Livre ix.

[224]. Just washed in the dew. The Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Sc. 1.

Strange child-worship. Lamb, Lines on the celebrated picture by Leonardo da Vinci; called the Virgin of the Rocks.

Luini. Bernardino Luini (c. 1460–70–c. 1530), whose style so resembles that of Leonardo da Vinci that it is difficult to distinguish their works.

[225]. Bronzino. A name applied to a family of Florentine painters, Angiolo Allori (1502–1572), Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), and Cristofano Allori (1577–1621).

The late Mr. Opie. John Opie (1761–1807), portrait painter. See vol. VI. Mr. Northcote’s Conversations, p. 343 and note.

A thing of life. Byron’s Corsair, Canto I. 3.

[226]. Deliberation sits and public care. Paradise Lost, II. 303.

Julio Romano. See ante, note to p. [18].

Andrea del Sarto. See ante, note to p. [25].