Excerpt from Jerrold's Guide to the Exhibition: How to See the Art Treasures Exhibition; A Guide, Systematically Arranged, to Enable Visitors to Take a View, at Once Rapid and Complete, of the Art Treasures Palace
The Murillos are arranged in Vestibule II between Saloons B and C.
Gregory IX. From Murillo we turn to Morales (508 and to Velasquez, the quaint and powerful painter, of whom Spain may be justly proud. There are no less than twenty-four paintings by him amid these art-treasures. Let the visitor remark the Duke Olivarez on Horseback Hem'y de Halmale on Horseback A Cardinal Philip IV. In Shooting Dress The Cardinal Infant Don Ferdinand of Austria in Shooting Dress (785) The Infant Don Balthazar Carlos Queen Mariana of Austria A Miracle by St. Anthony of Padua Philip IV. Of Spain The Queen of Philip IV. Venus St. John Having noticed two pictures by Bellini, viz Dominican Monk also a Virgin and Child, by Innocenza da Imola the visitor may take leave for the present of the ancient masters. He has travelled rapidly through the art of the dead centuries to the genius of the present time. [many of the paintings originally placed in Saloon C, are now arranged in the south Side of the Clock Gallery, in the South Staircase to ditto, and in the Railway Gallery; including specimens of the works of Claude Lorraine, Canaletto, Guido, the Flemish School, &c.
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