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This page continues the article entitled Berkley Square, which started on Page 279, and "... is an account of the choice and valuable collection of pictures and prints of John Barnard, Esq; at his house in Berkley square".
The next article is entitled Berkley street, and starts on Page 294.
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Ferrara, after a design of Augustine
Caracci; it is a small picture, but the
characters and colouring are remarkably
sweet in it.
A very masterly sketch of the mi-
raculous cross of St. Antonio de Padua,
by Seb. Ricci.  This at a little distance,
has all the effect of a finish'd picture.
Christ and the two disciples at Emaus,
by Elsheimer.  The story is finely told,
and there is great expression in the
figures: this picture is a curiosity, not
only from the great scarceness of the
works of this master, but there are in
it two different candle lights, and a
moon light, which have an uncommon,
and yet pleasing effect.
The Virgin supporting a dead Christ,
by Lubin Baugin, called in France, Le
Petit Guide, from his happy manner of
imitating the stile of that great master,
of which this little picture, among
others, is a proof: this was out of the
Duke de Tallard's collection.
A sea monster swimming away with
a woman, by Albert Durer, who has
engraved a print of the same subject: this
is extremely well preserved, and there
is a much better keeping observed in it
than is usual in pictures of that age.
A came-
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A camelion with a thistle and flies,
most exquisitely painted after the life,
by Van Aelst.
A group of various flowers with in-
sects in a glass of water, by a master
who has mark'd the picture with .
This in point of finishing, is perhaps
carried as high as art, colours, and the
finest pointed pencils can possibly arrive.
A man sitting smoaking, and other
back figures, by David Teniers.  This
is in his finest stile, both for colouring
and expression.
Two men with a little dog going to
enter a cottage; a smaller picture by the
same master.  Mr. Major has engraved
a print from this, and call'd it the
Friendly Invitation.
There are other smaller pictures, good
in their kind, such as the Virgin and
Child, by Rottenhamer, highly finished
and coloured.
The same subject, the school of
Caracci, if not of him.
The Virgin and Child with a bird,
and a little St. John, by Sebastian
Bourdon, richer coloured than common
of this master.

 
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