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18809	Lansdown, Henry Venn	Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath			.txt	text/plain	18049	1010	76	Mr. Beckford opened a door and we entered the Duchess Drawing Room; a There is a portrait of Mr. Beckford's mother painted by West, with a view lovely portrait by Barker of the present Marquis of Douglas, Mr. Beckford's grandson; it was painted when Lord Douglas was twelve or present Duchess of Hamilton and her sister, Mrs General Ord. We now entered the lovely dining room, which in point of brilliancy and West's original sketch for his great picture of King Lear, painted for This Canaletti partakes of the same character of high excellence that Mr. Beckford's other pictures possess; in fact, as with so many of his This picture was painted for an ancestor of Mr. Beckford's. days, and painted the Lazarus." On my asking if he believed it true, Mr. Beckford replied, "Perfectly true, for I saw it lying on the floor and Mr. Beckford opened the door of the great library, and on entering I	./cache/18809.txt	./txt/18809.txt