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- el of the Florentines at Lyons.—Villot, Cat.
Louvre; Landon, xiv. Pl. 41.
Subject treated also by Girolamo Muziano, Louvre, Paris; Simone Cantarini, Munich Gallery; Gerard Honthorst, Madrid Museum; Bernardo Strozzi, Palazzo Brignoli sale, Genoa; Padovannino, Eremitani, Padua; Salvator Rosa, Church della Morte, Viterbo; Santi di Tito, Cathedral of Borgo San Sepolcro; Cavaliere Calabrese, Dresden Gallery; Anton van Dyck, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Rubens, Antwerp Museum; Cima da Conegliano, National Gallery, London; Alphonse Masson (Salon, 1839); Louis Lamothe (1855).
THOMAS AQUINAS, ST., TRIUMPH
OF, Benozzo Gozzoli, Louvre; wood, H. 7
ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 4 in. Above, Christ in glory,
surrounded by cherubim, with St. Paul at
his right holding a book and a sword, Moses
at his left with the tables of the law, and
the Evangelists in front; in the middle, St.
Thomas seated between Aristotle and Plato,
with Guillaume de St. Amour, doctor of the
University of Paris, below them, overcome
by St. Thomas's eloquence; in lower part,
Pope Alexander IV., assisted by two chamberlains,
presiding over the assembly held
in 1256, concerning the mendicant orders,
which were attacked by St. Amour and defended
by Thomas Aquinas.—Vasari, ed.
Mil., iii. 50; Villot, Cat. Louvre.
THOMAS OF VILLANUEVA, ST., Murillo,
Lord Ashburton, London; canvas, H.
6 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. 9 in. The saint, represented
as a boy six or seven years old, is taking
off his garments to supply the wants of
four ragged boys; background, a street with
buildings and figures. Painted about 1678
for Convent of St. Augustine, Seville; sold
by Monks to the Prince of the Peace, who
presented it to General Sebastiani; purchased
in 1814 by Mr. Baring, an ancestor
of present owner. One of the finest Murillos
in England. Sketch, Lord Ashburton,
The Grange, Hants. Copies: Cadiz Cathedral;
Duc de Montpensier; Condesa de la
Mejorada; Don Rodrigo de Quirios, Seville.—C.
Bermudez, ii. 60; Buchanan, Memoirs,
ii. 264; Ponz, Viage, ix. 136; Jameson,
Monastic Orders, 202; Curtis, 269; Waagen,
ii. 101.
By Murillo, Earl of Northbrook, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 5 in. The saint, wearing a mitre and accompanied by an attendant with a crozier, stands in an archway giving alms to a kneeling beggar, who is surrounded by other beggars; above, the Virgin, seated on clouds, with Jesus in her arms and two children clinging to her lap; on left, a church, seen through an opening. Painted about 1678 for Chapel of St. Thomas in Convent of St. Augustine, Seville. Louis Philippe sale (1853), £710, to Thomas Baring, uncle of Earl of Northbrook. Ford calls it "one of the finest sketches of Murillo in existence." Lithographed by A. Pinçon.—Curtis, 270; Athenæum (1853), 655; Gaz. des B. Arts, April, 1875; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole.
By Murillo, Seville Museum; canvas, H. 9 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. 4 in. The Archbishop of Valencia, with mitre and pastoral staff, standing front under a Grecian portico, dropping a coin into the hand of a kneeling beggar; in foreground, on left, an old woman seated, with a boy standing at her knee; at right, two other beggars and a nun; at left, an open book on a table; background, architecture, with columns wreathed above with a curtain. Painted about 1676 for Capuchin Convent, Seville. Murillo called this his own picture, and it is one of his finest works.—Curtis, 268; Jameson, Monastic Orders.
By Murillo, Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 11 in. × 5 ft. The saint, wearing a skull-cap, is giving money to a half-naked beggar sitting on a stone; he is attended by an ecclesiastic holding a mitre, and another holding a crook; before him, a boy examining a coin; at right, a group of beggars; and at left, architecture. Second manner. Bought by Mr. Irvine from Capuchin Convent, Genoa, and sold to Mr. Wells, of Redleaf, for £1,000; sold