HUGIJENOT ARTISTS DESIGNERS AND CRAYPSNEN IN GREAT ...

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37 Little pieces of Vandick at 3' each 111
I peece of Pousin 10
2 peeces of Rieussau litle 10
I peece of Baptist 10
3 peeces over ye doors 51 each 15
2 peeces of Rieusau bigger 10
2 peeces of Baptist 6 each 12
k more of Baptist 5' each 20
2 little peeces of Botson 8
1 landskip of Forest 8
2 landskips of Crebidge 7 each 1k
1 landskip of Fouquier ** 10
3 peeces of Ldy Montagu & Monthermer & ye present Duke 20
1 Cleopatra after Guido 2
* In the Dks Dressing Room are 2 landscapes on Copper by Apelyn called
Crabelje, amongst the Artists at Rome on account of a Contraction in his
Fingers probably the two above alluded to.
** In the D's Closet is a landscape by Fouquieres likely the same
The valuation which came to a total of 266 is signed 'Valued by us Cheron,
M.Antonie'. Antonie was the name of the Duke's Steward, most probably
also a Huguenot.'
George Knapton, who had spent seven years in Italy, catalogued
the paintings at Kensington and Hampton Court for Frederick, Prince
of Wales, with the assistance of George Vertue, and John Ellys, who
had not studed abroad, acted as a dealer and advisor on paintings for
Sir Robert WalpoleThree other members of tht St.Martin's Lane Academy
had visited Italy by 1720; William Kent and Lc iis Goupy, in the company
of Lord Burlington, and Grisoni, who was of course Italian by birth.
Possibly inspired by their example George Knapton and Arthur Pond
visited Italy later in the 1720's. On the other hand, six members of
the Academy had actually been born in France, and of these five had
enjoyed a French artistic training; Chron, Harvey, Laguer'e, Goupy
and Dupuis. (Of these, only Louis Chron can definitely be described
as a Huguenot). It is surprising in this light that the first St. Martin's
Lane Academy is usually described as Vanderbank never
travelled abroad until 172k, when he ran 'so far into debt that he was
forced to go out of England into Francet.k1 Vandrbank's artistic
allegiance appears to have been Flemish. (He is thought to have come from