Life of Mozart

—412 APPENDIX III.^^^^^^^^^^^^^MA.m=i=^-|p.A.g^Jg^gfe e==^^r^—-^^'^This piece, therefore, must have possessed some peculiar interest forthe Veronese. Below, in the centre of the narrow, beautifully carvedgold frame, there is a white plate with the following inscription :Amadeo Wolfgango Mozarto Salisburgensipuero duodenniIn arte musica laudem omnem fidemque pragtergresso eoque nomineGallorum Anglorumque regi caroPetrus Lujatus hospiti suavissimoefifigiem in domestico odeo pingi curavit anno MDCCLXX.In the same year the celebrated artist Pompeo Battoni of Rome painteda life-size head of Mozart, which came into the possession of Mr. Haydon ofLondon ; it is now the property of J. Ella, who has placed it in the South KensingtonMuseum, and rendered it familiar in an engraving by H. Adlard.The head is turned almost full-face towards the spectator, the right-handholding a roll of music-paper. The animated countenance has an evidentresemblance to the Verona portrait, but with more of a view to