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163. _I also am a painter._ See Vasari’s _Lives_ (ed. Blashfield and Hopkins), III. 32, note 28.

_Roubilliac._ Louis Francis Roubilliac (d. 1762). See vol. VII. _The Plain Speaker_, p. 89 and note thereto.

164. _Bernini._ Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), painter, sculptor, and architect, the Michael Angelo of his day.

_And when I think that his immortal wings._ _Heaven and Earth_, Part I. Scene 1.

165. _Thinly scattered to make up a shew._ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act V. Sc. 1.

_The Chevalier Canova._ Antonio Canova, Venetian sculptor (1757–1822) was commissioned by the Roman Government in 1815, after the fall of the Napoleonic Empire, to recover the art treasures that had been taken to France.

Note. _He heard it._ _Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_, Canto IV. 141.

166. _Vestris._ Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, Madame Vestris (1797–1856), the famous actress, subsequently wife of the younger Mathews. See vol. VIII. _A View of the English Stage_, p. 327 and note.

167. _Razzi._ Giovanni Antonio dei Razzi of Piedmont (1477–1549).

_Cortot._ Jean Pierre Cortot (1787–1843). The _Virgin and Child_ was painted for the Cathedral of Arras.

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167. _Espercieux._ Jean Joseph Espercieux (1758–1840).

_Chaudet._ Antoine Denis Chaudet (1763–1810).

168. _Gayrard._ Raymond Gayrard (1777–1858).