SALE OF OLD PICTURES.
Wwere invited to view a small collection of pictures by the. Old Masters, at No. 9 Great Stanhope Street, which are to be sold next week by Messrs.-Foster and Son; and though the rooms of a modern house afford a.very -unfavourable light for -seeing pictures, some of the works that were visible appeared to be good specimens of the respective masters. Those which struck us as the best were examples of Berghem, Both, Canaletti, Ruysdael, Vernet, and W. Vandevelde ; and a large landscape with figures and buildings—a view of Ktinigstern, on the Elbe—by Ber- nardo Canaletti, is it very fine work by that unappreciated painter. The best pictures, however, are generally those of the Flemish and Dutch school, and the more.modern.Italian painters : there are also a pair. of Wiliens, and an eruption of Vesuvius by Wright of Derby. Most of the pictures seem in good preservation, -and-, if dirt be a test, =cleaned; and the whorls has•an airof gentineness-
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