Mr.
Allston was with me and told me afterwards that, however superior his last piece was, this would far exceed it.

The subject is Christ before Pilate.

It will contain about fifty or sixty figures the size of life." "Mr.West is in his seventy-sixth year (I think), but, to see him, you would suppose him only about five-and-forty.

He is very active; a flight of steps at the British Gallery he ran up as nimbly as I could....

I walked through his gallery of paintings of his own productions; there were upward of two hundred, consisting principally of the original sketches of his large pieces.