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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904
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1Portraits, Paintings, Engravings, Drawings, etc.
3PREFACE.
5THE sister arts of Painting and Music go hand in hand—if not face to face—in this Exhibition.
7Artists have found excellent sitters in composers—Handel, to wit, who was a great lover of pictures. Attention may therefore be directed to the fine portrait of Handel, painted by Hudson, which the Earl Howe has kindly allowed to leave its home at Gopsall, Leicestershire, in order to be exhibited for the first time. The portrait, life-size, represents Handel in his seventy-second year, three years before his death. His full Court dress, the handsome gold embroidery on the coat and the lace frills, no less than the gold-headed cane and gilt-tipped sword in its leather-covered scabbard, go to make up a dignified presentation of a great master-musician. Another Hudson portrait of the composer of "The Messiah," from the collection of the Royal Society of Musicians, of which Handel was a member—a portrait by Kyte (lent by Dr. W. H. Cummings)—an excellent likeness according to Hawkins; and one by Denner (from Mr. Alfred Littleton's collection)—constitute altogether a splendid quartet of Handel portraits.
9A worthy contemporary of Handel was Dr. Arne, whose countenance is well portrayed by the brush of Zoffany; and there is also another portrait of the composer of "Rule, Britannia." Dr. John Blow, the composer of "I beheld, and lo!" sat to Sir Peter Lely, the chief painter of Charles II., and the result of whose art-work is before us in the portrait lent by the authorities of St. Michael's College, Tenbury. Two delineations of Dr. Greene are here to be seen—one by an unknown artist, the other, painted by,
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