Welsh Journals

Lawrence, he was told he must pay 500 guineas for the copyright. Al- though Colnaghi protested that the copyright was the Duke's, Lawrence was adamant, and nothing was done until the Duke returned eighteen months later. He did not wish to quarrel with Lawrence and would probably have agreed, but Lawrence died before a decision had been taken. His other story about Lawrence concerned Colnaghi's father, who had bought the copyright of one of the artist's works and went to settle up. He brought £ 300 but Lawrence said the price had been agreed in guineas. Colnaghi's father offered £ 300 or nothing and Lawrence took the money. A few days later Lawrence called at his house, saying he was going to dine at the Athenaeum and had forgotten to bring any money. Colnaghi's father offered to lend him nine sovereigns "which he took with his courtly smile and said 'That will do Mr. Colnaghi for the guineas' and drove away, never repaying them". Tudor visited the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street and thought it very inferior to the Academy. He paid another visit to Turner's studio and was enchanted by the Temeraire, "the finest piece of colour I know". He wrote a detailed tribute to Turner's powers of "generalising the tones, whatever may be the local colour of the Object, and making the broken local colour quite sub- ordinate to the General one". He visited the National Gallery to look at the pictures which had been cleaned and thought the Rubens "now not as Rubens left them", but "the other pictures are very decidedly improved, especially the Holy Family of Sir Joshua". He was not so happy when he went to look at his own pictures being restored by Mr. Peel. He found them "much injured, not merely by removing the glazing, but by retouching with colour of his own". He refused to let him meddle with any more of his paintings: "It is a warning to keep clear of that class of artist for ever". He went to Hampton Court and found "most of the pictures in a bad condition and appear to have been frequently oiled out till they have acquired a brassy texture which destroys their freshness". He looked carefully at the Lelys and came to the conclusion that his own Lely featured the Countess of Northumberland and not the Duchess of Cleveland as he had believed. He remarked on the way Reynolds had used Tintoretto's Expulsion of Heresy as a model for his portrait of Dr. Beattie, and thought that by borrowing the whole arrangement, attitudes and actions, "it lowered the climate of Sir Joshua's genius". He was interested in music and list:ned to Jenny Lind at the Opera, but left before the last act of the ballet because of its "immodesty and affectation". He went to one of Julien's grand concerts in the Zoo- logical Gardens but found the brass and clarionets so powerful that he had to move to the back. He was full of praise for the way in which, at another concert, Spohr conducted an orchestra of 500 and a chorus of 350 in his oratorio, The Fall of Babylon. He saw a balloon over Oxford Street, listened to Dr. Wordsworth preach in Westminster Abbey on the similarity between Papists and Pharisees, and had all his teeth out, which he found less painful than he expected.