Hamilton Illustrated Auction Sale Catalogue - Paintings 1919, M4/84/13 : Page 18

Fine Historical Portraits and Ancient and Modern Pictures

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G. ROMNEY.
56 PORTRAIT OF ALDERMAN WILLIAM BECKFORD
Twice Lord Mayor of London ; supporter of Wilkes and friend of Pitt
He presented an address to the King, complaining of the false return made at the Middlesex Election in 1770, and replied to the King’s curt answer with an impromptu speech which was subsequently inscribed on a monument erected in his honour at Guildford
In crimson dress and Lord Mayor’s robes, standing in the attitude of an orator (in allusion apparently to his celebrated reply to the King), by a table on which is a mace and sword, holding a scroll in his right hand ; in the background is a view of St. Paul’s
112 in. by 74 in.
Exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, 1883
See Illustration

SIR P. P. RUBENS
57 DANIEL IN THE DEN OF LIONS
The prophet is represented sitting naked in the middle of the den, his hands clasped, and his countenance directed upward with an expression of earnest prayer. Nine lions are prowling around him
Engraved by Blooteling, Van der Leuw, and Lamb,
and in mezzotint by J. Ward. There is also an extremely rare etching of it by Street.
This is one of the few great pictures by Rubens which we know with certainty to have been entirely executed by his own hand. Rubens says this explicitly in an Italian letter to Sir Dudley Carleton which Mr. Carpenter has printed in his “ Pictorial Notices,” p. 140
The picture was presented by Sir Dudley Carleton to
Charles 1, and is inserted in the printed catalogue of his
collection at p. 87

No. 14.
Done by{Item—A piece of Daniel in the lions’ den, with
Sir Peter{lions about him. Given by the deceased Lord
Paul Rubbens{Dorchester to the King, so big as the life,
{in a black gilded frame
91 in. by 130 in.
See Smith’s "Catalogue Raisonné," vol. xi. p. 162
See D. Waagen, “ Art Treasures in Great Britain",
vol. iii. p. 294