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A catalogue of a portion of the valuable and extensive collection of ancient pictures : selected with great liberality and taste by the late Allan Gilmore, Esq. from many of the renowned galleries which have been sold during the last 40 years : in particular those of Lucien Buonaparte, The Earl of Liverpool, Lord Radstock, Sir W. Drummond : and Messrs. Hibbert, Turner, Webb, and Sir T. Lawrence : besides a number purchased during a tour which the deceased made on the Continent shortly after the Peace : the pictures are all in a genuine state, uniting clever examples of the Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, and French Schools : the present portion will include many fine cabinet specimens of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, in particular the works of Netscher, Backhuysen, V. Velde, V. Der Capella, J. Steen, Decker, Watteau, Vernet and others : and several scripture pieces by Masters of the Italian School : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at his Great Rooms, 73, New Bond Street, on Tuesday, the 12th of April, 1842, at one o'clock precisely, by order of the executors, without any reserve.