"When it is added, that they were selected by that most judicious and quick-sighted collector, Monsieur D., it will be unnecessary to say more; for his penetrating eye and unerring judgment, his boundless liberality and unremitting industry, have ensured him the protection of a generous public, ever ready to patronize exertions made solely for their gratification! "N.B.--Descriptive catalogues, with the names of the immortal artists, may be had as above." THE BILL. "_Monsieur_ VARNISH _to_ BENJAMIN BISTER, _debtor_. £ _s. d._ To painting the Woman caught in Adultery, upon a green ground, by Hans Holbein 3 3 0 To Solomon's Wise Judgment, on pannel, by Michael Angelo Buonorati 2 12 6 To painting and canvas, for a naked Mary Magdalen, in the undoubted style of Paul Veronese 2 2 0 To brimstone, for smoking ditto 0 2 6 Paid Mrs. W---- for a live model to sit for Diana bathing, by Tintoretto 0 16 8 Paid for the hire of a layman, to copy the robes of a Cardinal, for a Vandyke 0 5 0 Portrait of a Nun doing Penance, by Albrecht Durer 2 2 0 Paid the female figure for sitting thirty minutes in a wet sheet, that I might give the dry manner of that master[13] 0 10 6 The Tribute-money Rendered, with all the exactness of Quintin Metsius, the famed blacksmith of Antwerp 2 12 6 To Ruth at the feet of Boaz, upon an oak board, by Titiano 3 3 0 St. Anthony Preaching to the Fishes, by Salvator Rosa 3 10 0 The Martyrdom of St. Winifred, with a view of Holywell bath, by old Frank 1 11 6 To a large allegorical altar-piece, consisting of men and angels, horses and river gods; 'tis thought most happily hit off for a Rubens 5 5 0 To Susannah Bathing; the two Elders in the background, by Castiglione 2 2 0 To the Devil and St. Dunstan, highly finished, by Teniers 2 2 0 To the Queen of Sheba falling down before Solomon, by Morillio 2 12 6 To a Judith in the Tent of Holofernes, by Le Brun 1 16 0 To a Sisera in the Tent of Jael, its companion, by the same 1 16 0 Paid for admission into the House of Peers, to take a sketch of a great character, for a picture of Moses breaking the Tables of the Law, in the darkest manner of Rembrandt, not yet finished 0 2 6 [13] Some of the ancient masters acquired a dry manner of painting from studying after wet drapery.--_Webb on Painting._