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Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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ms, were it not for Claude and the Poussins, would begrotesque. But with such landscapes as the Claudes (someof which were among the few pictures bought in 1824 fromJohn Julius Angerstein with which to start this great col-lection) and the Calling of Abraham by Gaspard Pous-sin (called Dughet in the catalogue, where Claude will befound under Gellee) our credit, if not saved, is yet not whollylost. For the rest, there is the prettiness of Greuze andMadame le Brun; and an interesting and masterly pieceof still life by Cliardin. It is in Room No. XVI that the two Turners hang, toshow to the world how much better he held himself thanGellee. Room for both without this comparison: but ifsuch a competitive plan had been the rule, Wilson mighthave hung a picture beside No. 61 and not feared theresult. Among the many Sir Joshuas in Room XVIII, the firstof the British school — all fine, all touched with grandeur— I have chosen for reproduction the Portrait of Two A Diaz has just been added.
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I ii; 11; Ml oi- iwo iii;Nii.r:MKN AKTKK Hill .JOHHI A It K V NoLDh IH HHK I.N I III, NAIHiNAI, (;M.I,i;UY REYNOLDS AND ROMNEY 113 Gentlemen (No. 754) because it has always fascinated memost. But I would not call it greater perhaps than one ortwo others — the Johnson, for example, or the Keppel, orthe Lord Heathfield, or the very haunting Anne Countessof Albemarle. In the same room are such famous motherspictures as the Age of Innocence and the AngelsHeads. London is extraordinarily rich in Reynolds:here, at the Wallace Collection (where they are all beauti-ful women), at the National Portrait Gallery, and at theDiploma Gallery. Abundance has always marked thegreatest English artists, whether with the brush or thepen, the abundance which we find in Reynolds and Turnerand Constable, in Shakespeare and Scott, in Fielding andThackeray and Dickens — the large manner. The other picture in this room that I reproduce isRomneys Lady with a Child (No. 1667), which I havechosen for its char

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