Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists. John Timbs

ARTISTIC TEXT.

       GENEROSITY OF CANOVA.

       HOGARTH’S VANITY.

       THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL AND THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

       M‘ARDELL’S PRINTS.

       UNFORTUNATE ACCURACY.

       IMMORTALITY OF PAINTING.

       SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’S “PUCK.”

       RAPHAEL’S CARTOON OF THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENTS.

       JARVIS SPENCER.

       A DRAPERY PAINTER.

       “STRANGE” ADVENTURE.

       ORIGIN OF THE BEEF-STEAK CLUB.

       WILKIE’S EARLY LIFE.

       SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’S DINNERS.

       FINDING A PAINTER.

       REYNOLDS’S AND LAWRENCE’S PORTRAITS.

       ZOFFANI’S GRATITUDE.

       PATRONAGE OF ART.

       DANGEROUS RETORT.

       THE VENETIAN SCHOOL.

       REYNOLDS’S “NATIVITY.”

       HOLLOWAY AND “THE CARTOONS.”

       TITIAN’S PAINTING.

       CATLIN’S PICTURES.

       MARTIN’S “DELUGE.”

       SIR JOSHUA’S GOODNATURE.

       THOMAS SYDNEY COOPER “THE ENGLISH PAUL POTTER.”

       VERRIO AND CHARLES II.

       HOGARTH’S PICTURES AT VAUXHALL GARDENS.

       RUBENS AND THE LION.

       NARROW ESCAPE.

       GAINSBOROUGH.

       HAYDON AT SCHOOL.

       RUBENS’S DAY.

       DILIGENCE OF RUBENS.

       HAYDON’S “JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON.”

       VAN DE VELDE AND BACKHUYSEN.

       A PAINTER’S HAIR-DRESSING.

       A MIS-MATCHED PORTRAIT.

       VAST PAINTED WINDOW.

       CLAUDE’S “LIBRO DI VERITA.”

       THE OLDEST PICTURE IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

       EXPERIMENTAL COLOURING.

       STOTHARD’S FRIEZE.

       JOHN MARTIN ON GLASS PAINTING.

       “SITTING FOR THE HAND.”

       HAYDON AND FUSELI.

       RICHARD WILSON.

       THE BRIDGEWATER GALLERY.

       THE LOST PORTRAIT OF PRINCE CHARLES, BY VELASQUEZ.

       HAYDON’S “MOCK ELECTION.”

       PORTRAITS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

       A PAINTER OF THE DEAD.

       COPLEY’S PORTRAITS.

       “BONAPARTE REVIEWING THE CONSULAR GUARD.”

       LAWRENCE’S