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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved From THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES : PORTRAITS OF GREAT BRITAIN. ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC PICTURES IN THE GALLERIES OF THE NOBILITY AND THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THEIR LIVES AND ACTIONS, BY EDMUND LODGE, ESQ. F. S. A. VOL. XI. LONDON PRINTED FOR HARDING AND LEPARD. 1835. PA 1735' V.ll CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI. 1. RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON, Kxapton. 1753 From the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth. 2. HORATIO, FIRST LORD WALPOLE, - Vaxloo. 1757 From the Collection of Thomas Walpole, Esq. at Stagburij. 3. WILLIAM PULTENEY, EARL OF BATH, - Jervas. 1764 From the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Norfhwick. 4. PHILIP YORKE, FIRST EARL OF HARDWICKE, Ramsay. 1764 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Hardwicke, at Wimpole. 5. THOMAS HOLLES PELHAM, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HOARE. 1768 From the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Neivcastle, at Clumber. 6. JOHN MANNERS, MARQUIS OF GRANBY, Reynolds. 1770 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth. 7. JOHN RUSSELL, DUKE OF BEDFORD, Reynolds. 1771 From the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. 8. HENRY FOX, FIRST LORD HOLLAND, Reynolds. 1774 From the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Holland, at Holland House. 9. ROBERT, LORD CLIVE, - - - - 1774 From the Original in the Government House, Calcutta. 970357 . CONTENTS. 10. WILLIAM PITT, FIRST EARL OF CHATHAM, Hoare. 1778 From the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Bridport, at Cricket St. Thomas. 11. ADMIRAL LORD HAWKE, - - - Cotes. 1781 Frojii the Naval Gallery, at Greenwich Hospital. 12. CHARLES WATSON WENTWORTH, SECOND MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM, - - Reynolds. 1782 Fro7n the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl Fitss- wilUam, at Wentworth House. 13. ADMIRAL VISCOUNT KEPPEL, - Reynolds. 1786 From, the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. 14. GEORGE AUGUSTUS ELIOTT, LORD HEATHFIELD, From the National Gallery Reynolds. 1790 15. ADMIRAL LORD RODNEY, - - Reynolds. 1792 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Pettvorth. \6. FREDERICK NORTH, LORD GUILDFORD, Dance. 1792 From the Collection of the Honourable Georgiana North, at Wroxton Abbey. 17. JOHN STUART, EARL OF BUTE, - Ramsay. 1792 From the Collection of the Most Noble the 3farquis of Bute, at Luton, 18. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE MANSFIELD, Reynolds. 17;)3 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Mansfield, at Kenwood. 19. LORD CHANCELLOR CAMDEN, - Danc e. 1794 Fiom the Collection of the Most Noble the Marquis Camden. 20. SIR WILLIAM JONES, - - Reynolds. 1794 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl Spencer, at Althorp. I!l( ll.\l!l) 1U)^"I.1•.. KAIU. Ol' KIKLINCTON. ruiiir TOE niuciNJu, or knajtiin. in thk cnijxcxniN RICHARD BOYLE, THIRD EARL OF BURLINGTON. 1 HIS nobleman, who had the wisdom and courage to withdraw himself in the prime of life from the splendid vexations of courts and cabinets, to enjoy in a dignified retirement the consciousness of an unspotted fame, and the indulgence of a refined taste, was the eldest son and heir of Charles, second Earl of Burlington, and third Earl of Cork, by Juliana, daughter, and sole heir, of Flenry, second son of Eilward Noel, fourth Viscount Campden, and was born on the twenty-fifth of April, in the year 1695. He is thus fairly characterised by the anonymous author, his contemporary, of a note attached to the article appropriated to his grandfather, Richard, the first Earl, in the Biographia Britan- nica—" I might take this opportunity of telling the reader that his Lordship inherits the virtues and abilities, as well as the estates and titles, of his family ; that his merit has acquired him the most honourable reward in this kingdom, a blue riband ; that he has had interest to obtain, and virtue enough to resign, great employments ; that he has been a courtier above suspicion, a patriot without pique, or private views ; a friend to his country in all circumstances of a public nature, as well as an honour to it in his personal accomplishments, and correct taste in the polite arts, more especially architecture, in which it is not easy to say whether his modesty or knowledge deserve applause most. But these are in a great measure beside our purpose, which is to do justice to the dead, not to court the favour of the living ; nor should I think what has been already said pardonable, but that it is no inconsi- derable addition to the glory of a house, which has given Peers to all the three kingdoms to have the present Earl of Burlington and 1 RICHARD BOYLE, Cork for it's head, in M'hich light I hope this liberty, taken from no other motive, will be considered and excused." Lord Orford, who lived also in his time, has left this brief but ample encomium at once on his liberality and his talents—" Never was protection and great wealth more generously and more judiciously diffused than by this great person, who had every quality of a genius and an artist, except envy." The story of Lord Burlington's public life, if he can be said to have had any, lies in the smallest possible compass. We have no proof of his having ever betrayed even the slightest party inclina- tion, and are left to infer, merely from remote circumstances, that he was held at least in no distaste at Court. The order of the Garter, a distinction strictly due to one so illustriously descended, for he sprung from a ftimily more extensively ennobled than any other in the three kingdoms, was conferred on him in 1730, on the eighteenth of June in which year he was installed ; and in the following he accepted, rather in testimony, as it should seem, of his wish to be considered as an immediate servant of the Crown than from any other motive, the appointment of Captain of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. This however, though requiring but an unfrequent personal attendance, he resigned in 1733, and retired for the remainder of his life to the practice and the patro- nage of those elegant and innocent occupations in which he delighted. Passing over slightly his skill in music, and judgement in painting, which were critically good, we will turn to his profici- ency in that art of which several monuments remain to justify the praise which may be demanded for him. His munificence in promoting the publication of most expensive works on the subject of arcliitecture was truly princely. In 1728, he bore the whole cliurge of preparing and publishing a series of plates in folio, which appeared under the title of " the Villas of the Ancients, by R. Castell," and gave the profits, and the property, to the authors. In 1730, he printed " Fabriche Antiche disegnatc da Andrea 2 THIRD EARL OF BURLINGTON. Palladio, e date in luce da R. Conte di Burlington," a splendid volume in folio, of which a small number of copies were taken, to be distributed in presents to his friends, and to promising artists. He soon after collected Inigo Jones's designs, and published them in the name, and for the advantage, of William Kent, a painter, an architect, and a planner of pleasure grounds, whom he had brought from Rome, and who lived mostly in his Lordship's house, where he died a few years before his noble patron. He also enabled Kent to publish the designs for Whitehall, and gave a beautiful edition of the ancient baths, from the drawings of Palladio. His buildings, which are numerous, are believed to be wliolly from his own designs, although his modesty, or his beneficence, frequently gave the credit of them to others. Thus he ascribed to Kent the finest work of his own taste, the new front of that noble mansion, Burlington House, in Piccadilly, which had been built by his father, though it is certain that Kent was at the time in Italy, and perhaps unknown to him. Of the grand colonnade which he attached to it Lord Orford says, in his " Anecdotes of Painting," " I had not only never seen it, but had never heard of it, at least with any attention, when, soon after my return from Italy, I was invited to a ball at Burlington House. As I passed under the gate by night it could not strike me. At day-break, looking out of the window to see the sun rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade that fronted me. It seemed one of those edifices in fairy-tales that are raised by genii in a night's time." He erected many works also at his seat of Lonsborough, in Yorkshire, and in it's neighbourhood, particularly the magnificent assembly room at York, which he not only designed but built, and for which, in 1732, the Lord Mayor and Corporation sent a depu- tation to return their thanks, accompanied by a compliment of the freedom of their city, in a gold box. The best known relic how- ever at this day of his architectural taste and skill is his Villa at 3 — ; ; RICHARD BOYLE, THIRD EARL OF BURLINGTON. Chiswick, in Middlesex, now, by inheritance from him, owned by the Duke of Devonshire. That remarkable house was erected in imitation of the Villa Capra, near Vicenza, a work of his idolized Palladio, and has obtained the highest celebration from the most refined judges, though not without a candid admission of some faults. Pope addressed to Lord Burlington the fourth epistle of his " Moral Essays," which concludes, rather hyperbolically, with these lines " Make falling Arts your care, wonders, and the old repair Erect new ; .Tones and Palladio to themselves restore.
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