. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. ~ del. WE]L]L ^ifT^mm FnamaFalneingliySir ^ therofsefsioE ofEarl Spencer, Altbopp. /.//,/. ?//. /hh/i:--hrd far th^ A^/ViA/^. r.,h THE PICTURE GALLERY. 247 Sir Antony Vandyke, by Sir P. P. Reubens, — A headand shoulders only. Nell Gwynn, by Sir Peter Lely.—The Opposite Engravingwill convey some notion of the beauty and elegance of this pic-ture. It has greater fem
. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. ~ del. WE]L]L ^ifT^mm FnamaFalneingliySir ^ therofsefsioE ofEarl Spencer, Altbopp. /.//,/. ?//. /hh/i:--hrd far th^ A^/ViA/^. r.,h THE PICTURE GALLERY. 247 Sir Antony Vandyke, by Sir P. P. Reubens, — A headand shoulders only. Nell Gwynn, by Sir Peter Lely.—The Opposite Engravingwill convey some notion of the beauty and elegance of this pic-ture. It has greater feminine attraction than any one which Iremember to have seen of the Original. Granger, in his list, doesnot describe the present; of the genuineness of which there can-not be a doubt.* She is dressed in a yellow or straw-colouredgown, with a lavender-coloured mantle thrown over it. The cha-racter of the Original is too notorious to need recital. Granger,vol. iv. p. 188, has given a brief but vigorous delineation of was the most celebrated low comic actress of her day; andhaving become mistress to Lord Dorset, and afterwards to CharlesII., she had, by the latter, two sons; the
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