Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a relatively small fortune or inheritance.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flanders-fortunes, of small Substance.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].

a painting that looks good from a distance but not so good close to.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flanders-pieces, Pictures that look fair at a distance, but coarser near at Hand.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].

spending money in a place that has no links to the place where one received the money.

1605

T. Heywood If You Know Not Me, You Know No Body (1874) I 271: Spend it! God send me but once to finger it, and if I doe not make a Flanders reckoning on’t – and that is, as I haue heard mad wagges say, receiue it here, and reuell it away in another place.