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Memoirs Of The Rev. William Peters, L.L.B.
angels into the realms of bliss . From this picture we are informed that the celebrated BARTOLOZZI is now about an engraving , for MACKL ' , of Fleet-street , the enterprising friend of the arts , which promises to be one of the first prints from the hands of the admirable engraver , and to render justice to the excellent ori ginal . There are many other works of Mr . Peters so well known to -the
public that it is needless to enter upon a detail of them . The latest pictures from his hand are those from select passages of SHAKESPEARE now in the gallery of the BOYDELLS in Pall-Mali . They are pictures worthy of Mr . Peters , of the fine repository of the arts in which they are conspicuous ornaments , and of the liberal proprietors of that excellent assemblage of graphic treasures .
Heie , perhaps , the illiberal and narrow-minded may take the alarm , and think Mr . Peters ill-employed his time in illustrating the works of-a poet ; but , as the great Bishop WARBURTON did not deem it unworthy of his pious calling to elucidate the beauties of that unrivalled bard , we conceive that none but the puritanical will require an apology ; for wheie so eminent a character as Bishop Warburton
went before with his pen , sure there could be no offence in Mr . Peters -who followed with his pencil . Mr . Peters , as we have said , was always an enthusiast in his love of painting , but ' never , as we believe , liked it as a profession , and his disgust was probably encreased by a circumstance that deserves a place in this article ; a circumstance which shews , that though merit
shall be acknowledged and even unrivalled , yet unless sustained by those assisting contingencies to which we give the name of fortune , It will not be exempted from penury and want . A lady applied to Mr . Peters desiring him to recommend to her a landscape painter . It is hardly necessary to say , that the painter of NIOBE , of PHAETON , of CEYX and ALCYONE , of CELADON and AMELIA , & C . & C . came first into his ' thoughtsand the lady and Mr . Peters went to WILSON ,
, Wilson then lived in a small house in Norton-street , Marybone , where they found him in the midst of dusty canvasses , half-painted sketches , and one or two unfinished pictures . The ingenious artist received an order for four landscapes , and the lady and Mr . Peters left him . The next morning Wilson called on Mr . Peters to thank him for his kind recommendationandat the same timewith the
, , , modest dignity of a man conscious of having deserved well of his country hut who had been neglected and was in distress—in short , a Belisarius—said , that he was almost pennyless ; that he knew not where to get money to buy canvas and colours to begin tile pictures , "unless Mr . Peters would add to his kindness b y lending him a few guineas to set him a going , and suupoit him till at least one picture
was finLhed . Such was the situation of a man distinguished for firstrate genius in his province of the art : lor industry , integrity , and great ' private worth ; and whose talents were admired by pretended ¦ patrons who praised the artist and left the man to starve . It should be observed that , though accused of extravagance by those who wanted an excuse for their illiberal nealect of a man whose irehius
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Memoirs Of The Rev. William Peters, L.L.B.
angels into the realms of bliss . From this picture we are informed that the celebrated BARTOLOZZI is now about an engraving , for MACKL ' , of Fleet-street , the enterprising friend of the arts , which promises to be one of the first prints from the hands of the admirable engraver , and to render justice to the excellent ori ginal . There are many other works of Mr . Peters so well known to -the
public that it is needless to enter upon a detail of them . The latest pictures from his hand are those from select passages of SHAKESPEARE now in the gallery of the BOYDELLS in Pall-Mali . They are pictures worthy of Mr . Peters , of the fine repository of the arts in which they are conspicuous ornaments , and of the liberal proprietors of that excellent assemblage of graphic treasures .
Heie , perhaps , the illiberal and narrow-minded may take the alarm , and think Mr . Peters ill-employed his time in illustrating the works of-a poet ; but , as the great Bishop WARBURTON did not deem it unworthy of his pious calling to elucidate the beauties of that unrivalled bard , we conceive that none but the puritanical will require an apology ; for wheie so eminent a character as Bishop Warburton
went before with his pen , sure there could be no offence in Mr . Peters -who followed with his pencil . Mr . Peters , as we have said , was always an enthusiast in his love of painting , but ' never , as we believe , liked it as a profession , and his disgust was probably encreased by a circumstance that deserves a place in this article ; a circumstance which shews , that though merit
shall be acknowledged and even unrivalled , yet unless sustained by those assisting contingencies to which we give the name of fortune , It will not be exempted from penury and want . A lady applied to Mr . Peters desiring him to recommend to her a landscape painter . It is hardly necessary to say , that the painter of NIOBE , of PHAETON , of CEYX and ALCYONE , of CELADON and AMELIA , & C . & C . came first into his ' thoughtsand the lady and Mr . Peters went to WILSON ,
, Wilson then lived in a small house in Norton-street , Marybone , where they found him in the midst of dusty canvasses , half-painted sketches , and one or two unfinished pictures . The ingenious artist received an order for four landscapes , and the lady and Mr . Peters left him . The next morning Wilson called on Mr . Peters to thank him for his kind recommendationandat the same timewith the
, , , modest dignity of a man conscious of having deserved well of his country hut who had been neglected and was in distress—in short , a Belisarius—said , that he was almost pennyless ; that he knew not where to get money to buy canvas and colours to begin tile pictures , "unless Mr . Peters would add to his kindness b y lending him a few guineas to set him a going , and suupoit him till at least one picture
was finLhed . Such was the situation of a man distinguished for firstrate genius in his province of the art : lor industry , integrity , and great ' private worth ; and whose talents were admired by pretended ¦ patrons who praised the artist and left the man to starve . It should be observed that , though accused of extravagance by those who wanted an excuse for their illiberal nealect of a man whose irehius