Identifier: aedesalthorpiana00dibd (find matches)
Title: Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana
Year: 1822 (1820s)
Authors: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
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Publisher: London : W. Nicol
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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which his pencil was exercised, may be seen onconsulting Granger, vol. i. p. 116-17. I should add, that all thefigures are of the size of life. The Sforzas, by Albert Durer. Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan, in 1512. Eldest sonto Ludovico, surnamed the Moor, and Beatrix DEst: died in1530, unmarried. Francis Sforza, Duke of Milan, in 1529. Second son to theMoor, married Christiana, daughter to Christian II. King ofDenmark : died in 1535, without issue. The above portraits are curious and interesting specimens ofAlbert Durers art; they appear in one of the compartments ofa picture painted in wood by that artist; the middle division ofwhich represents a man sitting at a table with a skull before him;and the opposite compartment to that above described, containsthe Salutation of the Virgin. It is in good preservation. Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, by Sir Peter Lely.—She was daughter to Villiers, Viscount Grandison, who was sonto Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. She married Palmer, Earl of
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14O 5>- H THE PICTURE GALLERY. 245 Castlemain; and being mistress to Charles IL was created Du-chess of Cleveland by that monarch : by whom~she had severalchildren. She was, says Bishop Bumet, a-woman of greatbeauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish butimperious; very uneasy to the King; and always carrying on in-ti-igues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealousof him. His passion for her and her strange behaviour to him did .so disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, norcapable of minding business, which in so critical a time requiredgreat application. Granger observes that she was the mostinveterate enemy of the Earl of Clarendon, who thought it anindignity to his character to show common civilities, much moreto pay his court, to the mistress of the greatest monarch uponearth. ^Mien this honoured nobleman was going from court,upon his resignation of the Great Seal, the Duchess of Cleveland,who knew him to be her enemy, insulted him f

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