He took me round the apartments, he riding and I walking.

He gave me the history of the most remarkable portraits in the library, where there is, by the bye, one of the few bad pieces of Lawrence that I have seen--a head of Charles James Fox, an ignominious failure.

Lord Holland said that it was the worst ever painted of so eminent a man by so eminent an artist.
There is a very fine head of Machiavelli, and another of Earl Grey, a very different sort of man.

I observed a portrait of Lady Holland painted some thirty years ago.

I could have cried to see the change.