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Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Eminent Persons, Whose Portraits Form Part of the Duke of Dorset's Collection at Knole: With a Brief Description of the Place; Embellished With a Front and East View of KnoleThe fketches are thirty-nine In number, the perfonages, whofe lives are given, were all of them of'confiderable, and many of' the highel'c celebrity. Their portraits form a part of the fuperb collection at Knole. By whom they were all painted is unknown, fome of them certainly by Holbein, and mof'c of them, probably, by his pupils. A room near ninety feet in length, is appropriated to them, and to the great attention of the noble proprietor is to be afcribed their being in perfect prefervation. The finef't produc tions of Titian, Corregio, Vandyck, and Rembrandt, and particularly the mof't bril liant efforts of Sir jofhua Reynolds's pencil, form the greater part of the ref'c of the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.