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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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