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552 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 265.
of London,) was one of the last remaining individuals who
remembered the person of Swedenborg, though at the time
he saw him he did not know him. He was once passing along
St. John’s Street, London, in the neighbourhood of which
Swedenborg lodged, when he met an old gentleman of a
dignified and most venerable appearance, whose deeply thought
ful yet mildly expressive countenance, added to something very
unusual in his general air, attracted his attention very forcibly.
He turned round, therefore, to take another view of the stranger,
who also turned round, and looked again at him. Some years
afterwards, when Mr. Servanté had received the writings, he
called on Mr. Hindmarsh for some of them; when seeing in
that gentleman’s parlour a portrait of the Author, he instantly
recognised in it the venerable stranger whose appearance had
so much interested him. The portrait, which he saw, was
copied from the print engraved by Martin, representing Sweden
borg in advanced age, the fidelity of which is thus singularly
proved."
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11. The strong resemblance which this picture bears to
the original, was further confirmed by Dr. Messiter, an
intimate acquaintance of Swedenborg. Being informed that
the Doctor was paying a visit, on a certain day, to his friend
Dr Spence,221 of Marylebone, I sent the picture to him, with
a view to obtain his opinion of its accuracy and fidelity;
when he immediately pronounced it a very striking likeness.*
12. The gold-headed cane, as it is called, of Swedenborg,
is now in my possession, having been purchased of Mr. Shear
smith by the Rev. S. Dean,† late of Manchester, when in
London, who left it to his widow; and she, before her death,
"This painting," says Mr. Madeley, "is now in the possession of
Mr. J. S. Hodson, who purchased it of the author’s grandson." It has
since been acquired by the Swedenborg Society, and hangs in their Com
mittee Room, 36 Bloomsbury Street, London. Respecting the history of
the various portraits of Swedenborg in existence, see Note 231.
"The Rev. S. Dean was at one time Head-Master of the Free Grammar
School of Queen Elizabeth and minister of St. Paul’s church, Blackburn;
and afterwards for a short term minister of the New Jerusalem Temple,
Hatton Garden, and author of a series of letters ’On the Nature, Evidence,
and Tendency of the Theological Writings of Swedenborg."-E. Madeley.
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