In private collections we meet with his historical pieces and his portraits: he painted one of the king, which was highly applauded, and has been very frequently copied.
Many of his pictures are found in private collections.
He left many works there in private collections, and I imagine they are there still; but, as always happens to copyists and imitators, his name is never mentioned, and his works pass as belonging to the school of Andrea.
Nay, I believe I should not be far wrong were I to maintain that the majority of the better works ascribed to Leonardo in private collections are by him.
The side panels referred to by Vasari are still in private collections.
Many of his works are in private collections, especially in England, but few are in public galleries.
On account of their size few examples of Veronese's work are to be found in private collections, but the galleries of the different European capitals are rich in them.
As it has been suggested wars with Oriental potentates and the annexation of lands which had previously been under British protection have from time to time enriched national as well as private collections.
Bordering on the secular vessels, yet associated with the altar, there are the alms-dishes, of which there are a great number in private collections of metal.
Of men who have made names for themselves there are many whose statues are found in private collections.
Similar standards formerly kept in other towns have been scattered, and not infrequently old specimens--obviously standards from the inscriptions upon them--are met with in private collections.
Having familiarized himself at Rome, first with the school of Brandi, and next with that of Maratta, he acquired a manner that came into some repute in private collections, for which he employed himself more than for churches.
There remain few of his pieces in private collections, a great number having been transferred into foreign countries, particularly into Spain.
At the same time there was employed at court an artist named Francesco Monti, who painted likewise for churches and private collections.
To the custodians of museums and the owners of private collections I am indebted for permission to have notes and sketches taken of objects in their possession.
The antiquities fished up have been very numerous, but unfortunately they are widely distributed, many indeed being in private collections.
There are also many of his pictures to be found in private collections; and in his landscapes, in which he excelled, it is doubted whether the figures are by him or Albano.
Giovanni della Malva, but no other work in public, as most of his pictures are in private collections.
Of his pictures a considerable number are to be found in private collections, particularly on sacred subjects, such as the Madonna and Child, and other compositions of the Holy Family.
They have probably already experienced the usual fate of private collections of objects of national antiquity: and have been thrown aside and forgotten or lost so soon as the novelty of first possession was over.
Notwithstanding their very great local value they have experienced the usual fate of private collections, and are no longer known.
This very elegant artist spent his time between the capital and his native province, where alone his pictures abound in public; in other cities they are more rarely met with, and are scarce even in private collections.
At least forty could be named, artists of good repute, whose lives were lacking in any unusual interest, and whose works are in private collections.
Her pictures called "Calme du Soir" and "Le Soir aux Martignes" are in private collections.
They had taunted me in museums, and been my envy in private collections, but find one, I could not.
If these men worked from museum or private collections, there is a possibility that chemicals used to kill, preserve, and protect the specimens from pests may have degraded the colours, and changed the grey to green.
There are similar stoppers in private collections.
The knife box with its divisions, referred to elsewhere, is exemplified in many remarkably fine cases to be seen in our museums and in isolated specimens in private collections.
It was not till many years after the dispersion of that noble Harleian memorial of generous ardour among the public and private collections of England and the Continent (Dr.
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