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Memoirs Of The Rev. William Peters, L.L.B.
might gratify his curiosity , and improve his taste by an attentive study of the great masters whose works are deposited in that country . The pictures of CORREGIO at Parma , and of TITIAN and RUBENS at Venice and Florence , seem to have been the favourite models the style of which he has more particularly endeavoured to imitate . A copy from the celebrated picture at Parmaknown by the name of
, SAN GIEROLOMO ( although St . JEROME is the least important figure in the picture , which is , in fact , a holy family , with the addition of St . Jerome and Mary M ' agdalen ) is now placed as an altar-piece in the church of Saffron Walden in Essex . It was presented to that church by Lord HOWARD of Walden . The copy is faithfully and beautifully executed . Lord DUXDAS is possessed of a study made b
y Mr . Peters from the famous picture of the FOUR PHILOSOPHERS by RUBENS , in the PITTI PALACE at Florence . At the late sale of Lord Dundas ' s pictures this study was the only picture with which he would not part . On the first visit of Mr . Peters to Italy , the Imperial Academy at
Florence elected him a member of that body . The diploma is dated so earl y as the year 17 6 3 , when Mr . Peters must have been a very young man . On his second return to this country he was soon admitted in the Royal Academy as Royal Academician . By this time it should- seem that Mr . Peters had satisfied his enthusiasm for painting , for even the academical honour , the highest that an artist of
Britain or any other country can attain , had not charms enough to induce him to continue in that respectable fraternity ; and he evidentlyfelt a sense of the more important station' to which his parents first intended to devote him . By the vice-chancellor ' s register at Oxford it appears that he had been matriculated on the 24 th of November I ? 79 J > was entered of Exeter Collegetook the degree of Batchelor of
, Civil Law , and , in . the end , threw aside the pencil in a professional point of view , and assumed the gown . Among the several pictures painted by Mr . Peters about the time of his secession from the . arts was one which attracted the attention of the public in no common degree . The subject of this p icture was AN ANGEL CARRYING THE SPIRIT OF A CHILD TO PARADISE . The
Original picture is in the collection of the Earl of EXETER at Burghley . The prints from this beautiful and interesting work were soon dispersed throughout Europe , and no print , we believe , from any picture of whatever master , had so rapid and universal a sale as what followed the publication of the plate from the work we now mention . As a companion Mr . Peters painted THE SPIRIT OF A CHILD ARRIVED i ? r THE PRESENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY , and as a center-piece THE
RESURRECTION OF A PIOUS FAMILY AT THE LAST DAY . These pictures manifested the hi g her powers of art , directed to moral and religious purposes , laudabl y suited to that sacred calling which Mr . Peters had adopted or was about to assume . Soon after these capital works there appeared a picture of THE DEATH-BED OF THE RIGHTEOUS , represented as a fond mother at the moment of her departure surrounded by her children , her spirit just separated from her body , wafting by
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Memoirs Of The Rev. William Peters, L.L.B.
might gratify his curiosity , and improve his taste by an attentive study of the great masters whose works are deposited in that country . The pictures of CORREGIO at Parma , and of TITIAN and RUBENS at Venice and Florence , seem to have been the favourite models the style of which he has more particularly endeavoured to imitate . A copy from the celebrated picture at Parmaknown by the name of
, SAN GIEROLOMO ( although St . JEROME is the least important figure in the picture , which is , in fact , a holy family , with the addition of St . Jerome and Mary M ' agdalen ) is now placed as an altar-piece in the church of Saffron Walden in Essex . It was presented to that church by Lord HOWARD of Walden . The copy is faithfully and beautifully executed . Lord DUXDAS is possessed of a study made b
y Mr . Peters from the famous picture of the FOUR PHILOSOPHERS by RUBENS , in the PITTI PALACE at Florence . At the late sale of Lord Dundas ' s pictures this study was the only picture with which he would not part . On the first visit of Mr . Peters to Italy , the Imperial Academy at
Florence elected him a member of that body . The diploma is dated so earl y as the year 17 6 3 , when Mr . Peters must have been a very young man . On his second return to this country he was soon admitted in the Royal Academy as Royal Academician . By this time it should- seem that Mr . Peters had satisfied his enthusiasm for painting , for even the academical honour , the highest that an artist of
Britain or any other country can attain , had not charms enough to induce him to continue in that respectable fraternity ; and he evidentlyfelt a sense of the more important station' to which his parents first intended to devote him . By the vice-chancellor ' s register at Oxford it appears that he had been matriculated on the 24 th of November I ? 79 J > was entered of Exeter Collegetook the degree of Batchelor of
, Civil Law , and , in . the end , threw aside the pencil in a professional point of view , and assumed the gown . Among the several pictures painted by Mr . Peters about the time of his secession from the . arts was one which attracted the attention of the public in no common degree . The subject of this p icture was AN ANGEL CARRYING THE SPIRIT OF A CHILD TO PARADISE . The
Original picture is in the collection of the Earl of EXETER at Burghley . The prints from this beautiful and interesting work were soon dispersed throughout Europe , and no print , we believe , from any picture of whatever master , had so rapid and universal a sale as what followed the publication of the plate from the work we now mention . As a companion Mr . Peters painted THE SPIRIT OF A CHILD ARRIVED i ? r THE PRESENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY , and as a center-piece THE
RESURRECTION OF A PIOUS FAMILY AT THE LAST DAY . These pictures manifested the hi g her powers of art , directed to moral and religious purposes , laudabl y suited to that sacred calling which Mr . Peters had adopted or was about to assume . Soon after these capital works there appeared a picture of THE DEATH-BED OF THE RIGHTEOUS , represented as a fond mother at the moment of her departure surrounded by her children , her spirit just separated from her body , wafting by