The converfion of St. Paul, by Luca Giordano, with many figures and horfemen, about 6 feet wide. This is one of his best in the free and fpirited ftyle, for which he was most famous.

A battle by the fame mafter. Not quite fo large. The compofition in this picture is better, and the figures feem more alive and in motion, than in almoft any battle pieces to be met. with.

Tobit burying the dead, by Benedetto Caftiglione, in the ftyle of Nicola Pouffin, which mafter (in his latter time) he particularly ftudied and imitated; and he fucceeded therein fo well, in this picture, both in the compofition and drawing, that was not his name upon it, feveral of the best judges have declared, they should not only have taken it for a true picture of that mafter, but alfo for a very fine one of him.

A Landskip, by Claude Lorraine, near 4 feet. wide, the subject is a warm evening; it is in the higheft prefervation, and in his very finest tafte and manner of painting; the keeping, and that harmony and tenderness of tints, for which that master was fo famous, are remarkably confpicuus in this picture, and the figures which are but few, are much better than one generally fees in his works.

A Praefepe, by Pietro da Cortona: the compofition and the harmony of colours in this picture are very fine.

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The entombing of Chrift, by Frederico Barroccio; the dead body is rather difagreeable, but fome of the characters are very fine.

The adoration of the Magi, by Rubens; this is only a sketch for a large picture, yet it is fo finished, that, at a proper distance, the characters are as expreffive, and the colouring as rich as in a finifhed picture.

St. Thomas putting his finger in the wound in Chrift's fide, by Michael Angelo Caravaggio. This is alfo a sketch, but the dignity in the characters, and the fine large folds of drapery, fhew it to be the work of a great mafter. Mr. Barnard has a print of this picture etched by the mafter himself, which is extremely scarce.

The ftoning of St. Stephen, by Filippo Lauri. Though the figures in this picture are rather larger than thofe which are in his very best manner, yet they are finely drawn, and the gaiety and beauty of the colouring, together with the fine keeping obferved in the diftant figures, make it a very pleafing and fine pic

ture.

Christ's Agony in the Garden, by the fame mafter. The figures in this are fmaller than in the preceding; and the fine characters, and correctness of drawing of the figures, joined to the beautiful colouring, have always made this B 3 picture,

picture, though a very fmall one, esteemed by the greatest judges as one of his best.

The fame fubject in a round about a foot diameter, by Carlo Maratti. The angels heads. are fine, and the colouring pleafing.

A Holy Family, by the fame mafter, about I foot 7 inches high. This is painted in his best manner, and fineft colouring.

A Silence, by Nicola Pouffin. The fubject a Landskip, the evening, in which a little boy is running away with a Satyr's mufical inftrument as he lies afleep; other figures are lying and leaning in an expofed manner. Though this picture is only about 17 inches wide, and the figures but fmall, yet they are as genteel, and as correctly drawn as in any of his fineft pictures.

The Woman taken in Adultery, by Sebaftian Ricci. The greatnefs of the defign, the dignity and propriety of the characters, particularly the woman, and the harmony of the colours, fhew him to be (though a modern master) equal to most of the greatest that went before him.

Two Mifers counting and fetting down their money; the fame fubject, but with fome variations, as that at Windfor, by Quintin Matfys, of Antwerp, who repeated this picture feveral times.

An old man's head with a ruff, by Rembrandt. It is thought to be the portrait of Ephraim Bonus

Bonus the phyfician, as it bears a great refemblance to the print of him engraved by Rembrandt himself; but in the picture he is much older. The light and fhade in this picture is extremely fine.

A fine Landfkip, with Tobit and the Angel, near 3 feet wide; by the fame mafter. The effect of colours in this picture is furprifing.

A Magdalen's head, by Guido.

An hiftorical fubject, a Woman and three Children, &c. by Solimene. This is better coloured, and more finished, than one generally fees of this mafter.

Angels holding a mitre over St. Ambrofe. A finished sketch for a large picture, by the fame mafter. The character of St. Ambrofe is very fine, and the draperies are in a great ftyle of painting.

Sufannah and the Elder, by Le Moine. The colouring of the woman who is near naked, is very fine, and the compofition and the landskip are very agreeable.

A little Boy and Girl naked in a landskip of a garden, by Albano, in his richest colouring. A battle by Bourgognone, about 2 feet wide; this is clearer and better coloured than most of his pictures are.

Two Landskips, by Gafpar Pouffin, about 2 feet 2 inches wide each. They are in his finest green manner, and extremely well preserved.

Another Landfkip, by the fame mafter. A little larger, but upright, and alfo in his richest and beft manner.

A Landskip with rocks, and a man lying reading, by Salvator Rofa; about 2 feet 2 inches wide.

A Landskip, with its companion, by Bartolomeo, a difciple of the above mafter. The figures and water in this picture are remarkably fine.

A Landskip, a warm evening, about the fame fize, by Jean Affelen, commonly called Crabacci, with cattle in the water, by Berchem, in his fineft manner.

A Landskip, with cattle and figures, by Cuyp. Its companion, the fun-fhine, for which this mafter is fo famous, is particularly fine in this picture.

Venus and Adonis, with Cupids; by Van Baelen, in a landfkip about the fame fize as the above, by Velvet Brueghel, who has introduced dogs, &c. painted with the utmost life. and fpirit. This is as fine a coloured picture as can poffibly be met with.

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