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Morillo, two Spanish painters of the first
eminence, and Spagnolet.
He speaks of Sir Benjamin Keene with
the highest respect and regard, and men-
tions his death, not only as a misfortune
to the two courts of England and Spain,
but as an irreparable loss to himself and
all his friends. He shewed me several
pictures painted in England, in the man-
ner of Teniers, by a man, during the
time he was in prison for debt; I forget
his name; these, he said, Lord Chesterfield
had given him in the politest manner
imaginable.
Upon my expressing some desire to
write his life, or, at least, to insert par-
culars [sic] of it in my history. " Ah," says
he, by a modesty rather pushed too far,
" if you have a mind to compose a good
" work, never fill it with accounts of such
" unworthy beings as I am." However,
he furnished me with all the particulars
concerning Domenico Scarlatti, which I
desired, and dictated to me very oblig-
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