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. At the same moment, another gentleman who knew Mr. Appleton entered, and said, Ah! a Palma Vecio, Mr. Appleton; how delightful! It is a Palma, is it not? That, replied Mr. Appleton, is probably a Palma; but what do you say to this, which I consider a much better picture? The gentleman did not know; but it looked like Venetian coloring. Quite right, said Mr. Appleton; I bought it at the sale of a private collection in Rome, and it was catalogued as a Tintoretto, but I said, No, Bassano; and it is the best Bassano I ever saw. The Italians call it Il Coconotte. Mr. Appleton had no intention of palming off doubtful paintings on his friends or the public; but in regard to Il Coconotte he was confident of its true value, and rightly so. The painting, so called from a head in the group covered very thinly with hair, was the pride of his collection and one of the best of Bassano's works. The other painting looked to me like a Palma, and I have always supposed that it was on