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
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