lUv : lloyp I O -A. T -A- HLj O G TT E OF A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS OF EMINENT PERSONAGES At the close of the Last Century, GEORGE DANCE, R.A., THE PROPERTY OF KEY. GEORGE DANCE, DECEASED, GRANDSON OF THE PAINTER: CM 5GHC WHICH SEtll be .Solti bp Auction bp Messrs. CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS, AT THEIR GREAT ROOMS, 8 KING STREET, ST. JAMES’S SQUARE, On FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1898, AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. May be viewed Two Days preceding, and Catalogues had at Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods’ Offices, 8 King Street^ St. James’s Square, S. W. CONDITIONS OF SALE. - 0 - I. THE highest Bidder to be the Buyer; and if any dispute arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. II. No person to advance less than Is.; above Five Pounds, 5s.; and so on in proportion. III. In the case of Lots upon which there is a reserve, the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the Seller. IV. The Purchasers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, and to pay down 5s. in the Pound, or more, in part of payment, or the whole of the Purchase-Money, if required; in default of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold. V. The Lots to be taken away and paid for, whether genuine and authentic or not, with all faults and errors of description, at the Buyer’s expense and risk, within Two days from the Sale ; Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods not being responsible for the correct description, genuineness, or authenticity of, or any fault or defect in, any Lot: and making no warranty whatever. VI. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can on any account be removed during the time of Sale; and the remainder of the Purchase-Money must absolutely be paid on delivery. VII. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the Money deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited ; all Lots un¬ cleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or private Sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-salo shall be made good by the Defaulter at this Sale. The Portraits in this Collection are authenticated from a complete list in the artist’s own handwriting, giving the names of nearly all the Portraits, and a note concerning each person represented. CATALOGUE. On FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1898, AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. DRAWINGS IN PENCIL AND COLOURS, by G. DANCE, R.A. 1 John Abebnethy, 1793 Celebrated surgeon. Born in London in 1764. Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he gained celebrity by his oral lectures. He died in 1831. 2 Archbishop Charles Agar, 1795 Archbishop of Dublin. 3 Rev. — Allot, 1802 Dean of Raphoe. 4 John Julius Angerstein. 1795 v- Qr Founder of the National Gallery. Of Russian extraction ; came to England at age of fifteen and became an underwriter at Lloyd’s. It was at his suggestion that a reward of 2000/. was offered at Lloyd’s for an invention of a life boat. His pictures were bought by the nation for 60,000/. He died in 1823. 4 47 - J. S. J7 4. - . 4,- /o . 5 Rt. Hon. Sib John Anstrutheb, Bart., 1797 An English statesman. Born in 1753. Distinguished himself as a member of the party who endeavoured to arrest the progress of the French Revolution. He died in 1811. f 6 Charles Armstrong, M.D., 1803 7 Dr. Samuel Arnold, M.D., 1795 v Musical Doctor. Born in 1740. He wrote the opera of ‘ The Maid of the Mill,’ and the oratorio of ‘ The Prodigal Son.’ He was made Doctor of Music under Lord North’s chancellorship of Oxford, for which he composed ‘ The Power of Music.’ But Dr. Hayes, the professor, considered it un¬ necessary to criticise a production of the author of ‘ The Prodigal Son.’ He died in 1802, and is buried in Westminster Abbey. 8 George Baker, 1795 ? Sir George Baker, Physician to George III., and Presi¬ dent of the College of Physicians. 9 Richard Baldwin, 1794 Treasurer of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. 10 Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., 1803 Distinguished cultivator of natural science. Born in 1743. He journeyed with Captain Cook to the Pacific ; fitted out an expedition to Iceland in 1772 ; was made President of the Royal Society in 1778 ; created Baronet in 1771. He died in 1820. He bequeathed his library to the British Museum. 11 Thomas Banks, R.A., 1794 Sculptor. Born in Lambeth in 1735. He visited Russia in 1779; was made an Academician in 1785. He died in 1805. 12 John Bannister, 1800 Comedian. Born at Deptford in 1760. He became a student of art at the Royal Academy; he first appeared at the Hay- market in 1778; in 1779 he appeared at Drury Lane; he became acting manager in 1802; and retired from the stage in 1815. He died in 1836. 13 Dr. Thomas Barnard, 1793. Lord Bishop of Limerick. Born in 1728. Educated at Westminster School and Cambridge ; made Archdeacon of Derry in 1761; made DD. by Dublin University; conse¬ crated Bishop of Killaloe in 1780, and Limerick in 1794. Died in 1806. He was a Fellow of the Boyal Society, and was a member of Dr. J ohnson’s famous club, sj _ if 14 Dr. Robert Batty, M.D., 1799 v Born at Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmoreland in 1763 (?). Graduated M.D. at the University of St. Andrews in 1797 ; was admitted to the College of Physicians in 1800 ; for some years acted as editor to ‘Medical and Physical Journal.’ He died in 1849. 15 Sir George Beaumont, 1807 Painter. Born in 1753 ; died in 1827. One of the chief promoters of the National Gallery. 15a William Daniell Engraver, who engraved a selection ot these portraits, 1794. 16 Robert Bensley, 1795 Actor. Born in 1738. Was said to have been a Lieutenant of Marines and seen active service in America; he first appeared at Drury Lane in 1765 ; he was a friend of Garrick, and played with Mrs. Siddons ; he retired from the stage in 1796. Ho died in 1809. /? /) J 17 Joseph Berwick, 1795 6 I - . - J- - \ 18 Ebv. P. Blacker French emigre. 19 — Blake, 1794 Musician. 20 Sir Charles Blicke, 1803 Surgeon. Born in 1745. Educated at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; became Governor of the College of Surgeons in 1801 ; knighted in 1803. He died in 1815. The famous Abernethy was his pupil in surgery, and said his master was fonder of money-making than science. 4 - /o. - 21 Admiral William Bligh, 1794 y ~~(~ English Admiral. Born in 1754. Was appointed com¬ mander of H.M.S. ‘ Bounty ’ in 1787. In 1789 a mutiny broke out on his ship, and he and eighteen of his crew were put in an open boat by the mutineers and cut adrift; they landed at Coupang on June 14, 1789, after living forty-eight days in an open boat. He took part in the battle of Camperdown, com¬ manding the ‘ Director ’ under Admiral Duncan ; and led the ‘ Glatton ’ at Copenhagen under Nelson. He was made Governor of New South Wales, to put down the importation of spirits ; the colonists rose against him in 1808, and he was deposed by Lieut. Col. G. Johnston: the Colonel was tried in 1811 for this act of mutiny, and found guilty. He was afterwards made Admiral of the Blue. He died in 1817 22 James Boswell, 1793 Biographer of Dr. Johnson. Born in friend of General Paoli, the Corsican patriot; and in 1768 he published ‘An Account of Corsica, with memoirs of General Paoli ’; he contributed ‘ The Hypochondriac ’ to the London Magazine from 1777-82; he met Samuel Johnson in 1763, and in conjunction with him, in 1784, he published his ‘ Journey to the Hebrides ’; in 1790 he published the ‘ Life of Johnson.’ He died in 1795. I. Intimate 7 23 Robert Brettingham, 1793 ^C^r Architect. Born about 1750. He built and altered several fine mansions ; bo designed the bridge at Benbam Place, Berks, and Maidenhead Bridge. 24 Dr. Richard Brocklesby, 1795 Physician. Born in 1722. In 1758 be was appointed physi¬ cian to the Army, and served in Germany. He enjoyed the friendship of Burke and Johnson ; Boswell tells us that when Johnson was going abroad, “ as an instance of extraordinary liberality of friendship, Dr. Brocklesby had upon this occasion offered him 100Z. a year for his life, a grateful tear started into his eyes as he spoke this in a faltering tone.” He died in 1797. 25 Richard Bcdd, 1798 Physician. Born at Newbury in 1746. Entered Jesus College, Cambridge; admitted M.B. in 1770 and M.D. 1775 ; came to London in 1780; elected, physician to St. Bartholo¬ mew’s in the same year, and held it till 1801. He is described as a man of strong will, impetuosity and positivencss, and of great social influence. He died in 1821. 26 Dr. Charles Burney, 1794 is Musical doctor. Born in 1726. Made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773; in 1776 he published his ‘General History of Music’; in 1784 he published a life of Handel, with an account of his performances. Ho diod at Chelsea College in 1814. 27 Charles Burney, D.D., 1794. Born in 1757. Son of the preceding. A celebrated Greek scholar; ho collected a library which, after his death in 181/, was purchased by Parliament for 13,500/., and is now in the British Museum 8 'r. - 28 Charles Pratt, Earl Camden, 1793 Illustrious jurist and statesman. Born in 1714. Called to the Bar in 1738 ; made Attorney-General in 1757 ; made Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas in 1762 ; created Baron Camden in 1765. lie died in 1794. /' 29 Lord Carlton, 1799 John Carr, 1796 Architect. Born at Horbury, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1721. Lived forty years in the City of York, where he was twice Lord Mayor; he was’one of the magistrates for the North and West Riding, as well as for the County and City of York. He rebuilt the parish church of Horbury at his own expense^ and presented the parish with a good) organ and a peal of hells; this edifice^was begun ki 1791, and finished in 1792 ; it cost him 10,000/. 4. ’ J5 — 31 Lord Viscount Castleueagh, 1794 a Prominent Tory statesman. Born at Mount Stewart in 1769. Appointed Secretary of State for War and the Colonies under Pitt; created 2nd Marquis of Londonderry in 1821. He died in 1822, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. /0 * ” 32 Tiberius Cavallo, F.R.S., 1799 Distinguished electrician. Born at Naples in 1749. His principal works are a ‘ Complete Treatise of Electricity,’ 1777, enlarged and republished in 1795; an ‘Essay on Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity,’ 1780 ; and ‘Elements of Natural and Experimental Philosophy,’ 1803. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in London in 1809. ’ — 33 Francis Chali£, 1793 Wine merchant. 34 — Clarke, 1798 Of? Alderman and Chamberlain of London. 35 Rev. Charles Coates, 1802 Author of £ History and Antiquities of Reading. 36 James Cobb Dramatist. Born in 1756. Entered the Secretary’s office of the East India Company, and rose to the post of Secretary. He wrote the ‘ Humorist,’ produced at Drury Lane, 1785 : the piece was burned in the fire there in 1809. Genest says that if the whole of Cobb’s work had shared the same fate the loss would not have been very great. He wrote about twenty-four plays. He died in 1818. 37 Samuel Pepys Cockerell, 1793 JjbokL ^ Oo~ Architect. Born in 1754. Pupil of Sir Robert Taylor; he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1785 ; in 1796 he rebuilt 38 William Combe, 1793 artin Outwich. He died in 1827. / y?t- rr. & (X. An ingenious and popular writer. Author of the ‘ Dia- boliad,’ * Tours of Dr. Syntax,’ ‘ The Devil on Two Sticks in England,’ and ‘ Royal Register.’ He died in 1823. 39 John Crosdill, 1795 r 'Ur,^ „. jx Violoncellist. Born in 1751 (?) Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Musicians in 1768; was appointed Cham¬ ber Musician to Queen Charlotte in 1782. He died in 1825. 40 Alexander Dalrymple, 1794 Celebrated hydrographer. Born in 1737. Was a the East India Company, and directed his attention to commer¬ cial intercourse with the Eastern Archipelago, in 1777 he was appointed Hydrographer to the East India Company; and in 1795 he held a similar office from the Admiralty ; ho was dismissed in 1808, and he died within a month from vexation. 4 - 0 «*•' 10 (41 William Dance, 1800 Musician and violinist. Born in 1755. He published a small quantity of vocal music. Ho died in 1810. 42 Lord Dartmouth, 1799 48 Solomon Delane, 1795 Landscape painter. Born in 1727. He first exhibited in 1771 in the Royal Academy, his last work appearing in 1784. (44 Chevalier D’Eon, 1793. Diplomatist. Born diplomatic and secret mission to Russia; soon after, having donned female attire, he became lectrice to the Empress Elizabeth, and succeeded in changing the whole policy of Russia from an intended policy with Prussia and England to one with France and Austria; he moved between St. Petersburg and Paris, sometimes as a man and sometimes as a woman, till in 1756 he appeared at St. Petersburg figuring as the brother of his former self. In 1762 he came to London ; he helped to negotiate the preliminaries of the Treaty of Paris, and was rewarded by the cross of St. Louis. He incurred the displeasure of Madame de Pompadour by his secret corres¬ pondence with Louis XV., and was therefore dismissed from his position as plenipotentiary of France at the Court of Lon¬ don ; he then became dangerous to the French Government by threatening to disclose confidential documents. On the accession of Louis XVI., Beaumarchais came to London to negotiate with him, and it was agreed that he was to acknow¬ ledge himself a woman, don female dress, and give up the papers, in return for which he was to receive a considera¬ tion. Consequent upon wagers being laid on the question of D’Eon’s sex the question was solemnly tried before Lord Mansfield in 1777, and he was pronounced a female; the deception was not detected until after his death in 1810 in 1728. In 1755 he was sent'on a 11 /- 45 William Dickson, 1794 Bishop of Down and Connor. Born in 1745. Educated at Eton, and made a life-long friendship there with Charles James Fox; became Bishop in 1784; his father was minister of Down under him. He died in 1804. /O. - \ 46 W. Drewe, 1801 Solicitor. S-. - 47 Sir J. Earle, 1794 Surgeon. Born in London in 1755. Educated to the pro¬ fession at St. Bartholomew’s, and was made surgeon there in 1784, and held the office for thirty-one years; he was Surgeon Extraordinary to George III., and President of the College of Surgeons ; he wrote many works on surgery. Ho died in 1817. CsO- Born in 1738. ’ Elected an 48 Edward Edwards, 1793 Draughtsman and painter. Associate of the Koyal Academy in 1773, and was made teacher of perspective; he wrote a supplement to Walpole’s ‘ Anecdotes of Painters.’ He died in 1806. r. - y _ 49 Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Bart., 1794 Natural philosopher. Born in 1752. Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Society of Antiquaries; he wrote ‘Tables of the Apparent Places of the Comet in 1661,’ and ‘ On the Determination of the Orbits of Comets.’ He died in 1822 50 Rev. Charles Este, 1793 Born in 1753. For some time connected with the stage ; afterwards engaged in medical pursuits; and finally entered the Church in 1777, and was appointed one of the reading chaplains at Whitehall; he edited the daily journal callod tho ‘ World.’ Ho died in 1829. 12 /• /o - /■ / - - Jr. £•- /o. 51 John Fawcett, 1809 Actor and dramatist. Born in 1768. Was apprenticed to a linendraper, but at the age of eighteen be ran away to New¬ gate, and under the name of Foote appeared on the stage in ‘ The Belle’s Stratagem ’ ; his connection with Covent Garden lasted from 1791 to 1830. He died in 1837. Leigh Hunt describes him as having “ singular harshness and rapidity of utterance and general confidence of manner,” and knows “ no actor who can procure so much applause for characters and speeches intrinsically wretched,” and “ in attempts at gentle¬ manly vivacity becomes awkward and vulgar.” Rev. Dr. John Fisher, 1793. Consecrated Bishop of Exeter in 1803, and Bishop of Salis¬ bury in 1807. Jesse Foot, 1798. An eminent English surgeon. Born in 1744. Became sur¬ geon to the Middlesex Hospital; published a ‘Life of John Hunter ’ and ‘ Life of Arthur Murphy,’ &c. He died in 1827. 54 Alan Gardner, Lord Uttoxeter, 1809 A British Admiral. Born in 1742. He served in under Rodney against the French near the West Indies in 1782, and his ship ‘ The Duke,’ 98, was the first to break the enemy’s line; he took part in Lord Howe’s great victory in 1794, and received a Baronetcy; in 1800 he was raised to the Peerage ; and he held the command of the Channel fleet for a short period in 1807. He died at Bath in 1809. the action 55 Thomas Girtin, 1798 ^ Water-colour painter. Born in 1773. He first exhibited in the Academy in 1794; he painted many cathedrals and ruins which were his favourite subjects; he did maay views of Paris also, some of which havo been engraved. He died in 1802. rs- ‘C'm.JLojB. ^(y^LiAJv AVo %j? ytfob dJ&Jsr 66 The Hon. Sir Robert Graham Ooac/Xsum A judge. Born in 1744. Educated at Cambridge, and became third wrangler; entered the Inner Temple in 1766; was made Attorney-General 1793 ; made Baron of the Ex¬ chequer in 1799, and knighted. He died in 1836. 57 Richard Grindall, 1793 Vis Surgeon. 58 — Haley (59 Henry Hall, 1793 I { 60 George Hardinge, 1794 61 A miscellaneous writer. Born in 1744. Called to the Bar in 1769; appointed Solicitor-General to the Queen in 1782; and Attorney-General in 1794. He died in 1816. In 1818 his memoirs and works were published, comprising charges, sermons, parliamentary speeches, literary essays, and some poems. Celebrated singer. Born on Sept. 8,1760. He opened the & ‘ Messiah ’ at the Handel Commemoration in 1784 ; “ Had his physical powers been equal to his taste,” wrote a con¬ temporary, “ Harrison would have been unrivalled.” He died in 1812. 62 Thomas Hardwick, 1795 Architect. Born in 1752. Studied under Sir W. Cham¬ bers; in 1790 be built the church of St. Mary, Wanstead; in 1795 he restored Inigo Jones’s church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, which had been destroyed by fire; in 1810 he was appointed Clerk of the Works at Hampton Court. He died in 1829. His son was Philip) Hardwick, R.A. 63 Ludford Harvey, 1795 Surgeon. 14 64 Fbanz Joseph Haydn, 1794 Renowned musician. Born in 1732. He wrote a mass when only thirteen years old; in 1760 he entered the service of Prince Esterliazy, and on the death of Werner he became the Prince’s principal Kapellmeister; in 1791 he came to London; in 1799 he produced ‘The Creation’ at the Schwarzenberg Palace, Vienna ; and in 1801 ‘ The Seasons.’ In 1809, at the siege of Vienna, the noise of the bursting shells caused his death. 65 — Hearne, 1795 Doctor. 66 — Heaviside, 1794 Surgeon. u o»>xo 9^0 67 Prince noARE, 1798 Collector of works of art. Author of * An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Art of Design in England ’; ‘ Epoch of the Arts ’ ; «Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq.’; he also wrote about twenty dramatic pieces. . 68 John Howard, 1794 Surgeon. 69 Thomas Holoroft, 1795 A dramatist and miscellaneous writer. Born in 1744. He wrote ‘ Tales of the Castle,’ and ‘ The Marriage of Figaro.’ He died in 1809. 70 Rev. Richard Hole, 1796 Author of the ‘ Remarks on the Arabian Nights Entertain¬ ments ’; * Arthur, or the Northern Enchantment ’; ‘ Poetical Romance ; and ‘ An Essay on the Character of Ulysses, as delineated by Homer.’ 15 * ~ 71 John Hoole, 1793 Translator of Tasso, 1761, and = Aristo. Born in 1727. In 1763 he published a translation of the ‘ Gierusalemme,’ with a dedication, written by Dr. Johnson, to the Queen. He published some tragedies between 1768-75 ; in 1773 he pub¬ lished his ‘ Orlando Furioso 5 ; he was appointed to the office of East India Auditor. His last work was a metrical version of Metastasio’s ‘ Dramas and other Poems.’ Ho died in 1803. 72 The Eev. Geobge Huddesforth, M.A. Author and editor of £ Salmagundi,’ ‘ Topsy-Turvy,’ ‘ Bubble and Squeak,’ and ‘ Crambe Eepetita,’ ‘ The Wiccamical Chaplet,’ and ‘ Les Champignons au Diable.’ 73 Rev. Thomas S. Hughes, 1794 Author of ‘ Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania,’, and ‘ History of England,’ in continuation of Hume and Smollett. . — 74 Thomas Hull, 1799 Comedian. Born in 1728. Manager of Covent Garden Theatre; and was one of the principal founders of the Theatrical Fund for the Relief of Distressed Comedians. Died in-1828. - /t-z — 75 Charles Incledon, 1798 J^oCyicix^iC V- Yocalist. Born in 1763. He first entered the Navy, but afterwards abandoned it for the stage ; he first appeared in London in 1790 at Covent Garden, where he continued until ^cr 1815. “ The new singer’s fine tenor voice, correct ear and finished shake won him popular favour in spite of his un¬ skilled acting and vulgar accent.” He went to America in 1817 ; retired from the stage in 1822. He died in 1826. 76 Sir Walter James, Bart., 1798 Grandfather of Lord Northbourne. 16 $ Jjh • «• — r 77 Joseph Jekvll, F.R.S., F.S.A., 1796 Wit and politician. Born in about 1753. Educated at Westminster School and Christ Church ; called to the Bar in 1778; his best writing was a satire on Pitt’s salt tax, called ‘Tears of the Cruets’; entered Parliament in 1787, and resigned his seat in 1816 ; the first Lord Colchester mentions him as “ a frequent speaker, but positively without weight even in his own (Whig) party ”; was created a Master in Chancery in 1815, through the influence of the Prince of Wales. He died in 1837. 8T‘ ' 78 — Jessop, 1796 Engineer. & 1 • \ 79 John Philip Kemble, 1795 Eminent English actor. Born in 1757. He became manager of Drury Lane in 1790, and continued it till 1801; retired from the stage in 1817. He died in 1823. And the engraving, by Daniell 2 4 .* 4 - - 80 Thomas King, 1797 Actor and dramatist. Born in 1730. He was articled as a « solicitor, but ran away and joined a travelling company, and for the sum of fourpence was allowed to play Hamlet; he was seen by Garrick and engaged at Drury Lane in 1748; was manager of the Bath Theatre for one season in 1755; he returned to Drury Lane in 1759, and was its mainstay until 1802; he married Miss Baker, a hornpipe dancer, in 1766; he v\ as the original Sir Peter Teazle when ‘ The School for Scandal ’ was first produced in 1777, and Puff in * The Critic ’ in 1779 ; he wrote ‘ Love at First Sight,’ and many other plays. He died in 1805, having been reduced to poverty by gambling. /■ x. — 81 Charles Knyvett, Sen., 1799 Musician. Born in 1752. Was a member of the Royal Society of Musicians in 1778. Parke states that he was “one of the best singers of glees, and perhaps the best catch singer in England.” He died in 1822. 17 ./ 6 .- b~ - 6 ~ - /A - /ir. - - 82 William Knyvett yf) Musical composer. Third son of the preceding. Born in 1779. He succeeded Dr. Samuel Arnold as Composer of the Chapel Royal in 1802 ; he was conductor of the Birmingham Festival from 1834 to 1843 ; he wrote many vocal works, many of which were printed ; he impoverished himself by unsuc¬ cessful speculation. He died in 1856. 83 Charles Knyvett, Jun., 1800 Musician. Son of Charles Knyvett. Born in 1773. Be¬ came organist at St. George’s, Hanover Square. He died in 1852. 84 Bennet Langton, 1798 Friend of Dr. Johnson. Born in 1737. He was an original member of the Literary Club ; he became a major in the Lincolnshire Militia; he was appointed to succeed John¬ son as Professor of Ancient Literature at the Royal Academy. He died in 1801. 85 Dr. John Latham, M.D., 1798 dL*. Born in 1740. In 1781 he commenced the publication of ‘ General Synopsis of Birds,’ completed in 1787; though best known by his ornithological works, he published many excellent medical papers. He died in 1837. 87 Matthew Gregory Lewis (“ Monk ” Lewis) 1798 ^ Author. Born in 1775. Educated at Oxford and Weimar; his novel ‘ The Monk,’ was written in ten days, when he was an attache at the Hague, at the age of nineteen. He died at sea in 1818. 88 William Long, 1794 Surgeon. 86 James Lewes, 1793 Architect. C 18 89 Longman, 1809 Publisher, of Paternoster Row. CL. jd. /" -2' ”' 90 Rev. Daniel Lvsons, 1793 y~ C*r Tojfographer. Born in 1762. Became Curate of Putney, and commenced his work on the ‘ Environs of London ’ ; part author with his brother, Samuel Lysons, of the ‘ Magna Britannica.’ He died in 1834. 3 . - JxajbjLAjdlc'hQr 91 Samuel Lysons, 1793 Antiquary and Keeper of the Records in the Tower. Born in 1763. Was called to the Bar in 1798; he became a favourite of George III.; and in 1803 becamo Keeper of the Records of the Tower; he became F.R.S. in 1797, and F.S.A. in 1812 ; he occasionally exhibited views of old buildings in the Academy ; author of ‘ Roman Antiquities discovered at Woodcliester,’ ‘Figures of Mosaic Pavements discovered at Hortstow,’ ‘ Remains of Two Temples at Bath,’ ‘ A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities,’ and other works. He died in 1819. A- 92 William Marsden, 1794 Born 1754 in Dublin. Became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and published in 1782 his valuable ‘History of Sumatra ’ ; he became Chief Secretary of the Admiralty, but retired in 1807 ; he bequeathed his library to King’s College, and his collection of coins to the British Museum ; he also published a translation of the ‘ Travels of Marco Polo,’ ‘ Numismata Orientalia,’ and Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay language. C?- He was music master to the children of Mrs. Thrale (the “Thralia” of Dr. Johnson); and, on the death of Mr. Thrale, he married her. He died in 1809. ^107 Rt. noN. Joseph Planta, 1794 An eminent philologist. Born in 1744. At first Secre¬ tary to the British Minister at Brussels, and was appointed 1 in 1773 Assistant Librarian to the British Museum ; elected I F.R S. in 1774; became Under Secretary to the Society in 1776, and afterwards became Senior Secretary ; he compiled the Catalogue of the Cottonian MSS. at the British Museum. He died in 1827. 108 Rev. Joseph Holden Pott, 1793 Rector of Little Burstead, Essex, 1797 ; Vicar of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 1813; Archdeacon of London, 1814; and Vicar of Kensington, 1824; author of ‘A Course of Sermons for the Lord’s Day throughout the year.’ 109 Rev. Thomas Powys, 1793 Of St. John’s College, Oxford, and Fawley, near Henley- on-Thames ; Prebendary of Bristol, and Chaplain-in-ordinary to George III. 22 £ - - 3-/0 — 3 • /i“ - — - — 110 Rev. Abraham Rees, D.D, 1794 Celebrated Cyolop2edist and Dissenting divine. Born in 1743. Educated at and Tutor of Hoxton Academy; he published many sermons, political and social tracts, various contributions to the ‘ Literary Review ’ edited Chambers’s Encyclopaadia for five years, and afterwards published his own Cyclopsedia in 45 volumes; he was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and D.D. of Edinburgh University. He died in 1825. Ill Major James Rennell, 1794 Eminent geographer and military engineer. Born in 1742. Entered the Navy at the age of 15 ; distinguished himself at the siege of Pondicherry, and under Lord Clive was made Surveyor-General of Bengal; elected Member of the Royal Society; his chief works were 4 Geography of Herodotus’ and ‘Marches of the British Army in tho Peninsula of India in 1790.’ 112 John Rennie, 1803 J&oCwJ&s Celebrated engineer. Born in 1761. He was engineer of the Hull Docks, Kennet and Avon Canal, Kelso Bridge over the Tweed, Waterloo Bridge, London Bridge, Southwark Bridge, London and East India Docks, Holyhead and Sheer¬ ness Docks, and the Plymouth Breakwater. Died in 1821. 113 Nicholas Revett, 1800 r- dr Architect. Born in 1772. The author of 4 Ionian Anti¬ quities ’ and 4 Antiquities of Athens ’ ; sent by the Dilettanti Society together with Dr. Chandler to make researches uecessary for the publication of those works. Died in 1804, 114 William Rix, 1796 Town clerk to the City of London. 115 — Robert, M.D., 1798 S’, /o . - //J -? 23 116 Sam Rogers, 1795 Poet. Born at Newington Green in 1763. On the com¬ pletion of his education he went into his father’s banking house with a view of becoming a partner; in 1786 he published his * Ode to Superstition and other Poems,’ but only sold twenty copies in four years ; the ‘ Pleasures of Memory ’ was published in 1792 ; and others followed till in 1822 he published the first part of his ‘ Italy,’ and he spent about 15,0U0Z. on the illustrated editions. He died in 1855. 117 Judge Rooke One of the justices of the Court of Common Pj 118 Michael Angelo Rooker, A.R.A., 1793 Son of Edward Rooker, the engraver. Born in\London in 1743. Studied in the St. Martin’s Lane Academy; had also instruction in landscape painting from Paul Sandby; in 1-770 was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy; he attained much excellence as an engraver, but, his sight failing, obtained the appointment of scene painter to the Haymarket Theatre. He died on March 8, 1801, and was buried at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Kentish Town Road. Physician and naturalist. Born in 1727. He became Botanist and Naturalist to the East India Company; he wrote a treatise on ‘ Indian Snakes,’ and also a work on the Plague in Allcpo. He died in 1805. Salomon, 1794 Musician. Born at Bonn in 1745, in the house whore Beethoven was born twenty-five years later. Became Concert-master to Prince Henry of Prussia; he composed several operettas ; he appeared at Covent Garden in 1781. He died in 1815. 121 — Scott Brickmaker. 9 - /JJL 24 122 Bight Hon. Sir William Scott, 1803 ** ( '- 134 George Steevens, 1793 Editor of Shakespeare’s works, together with Dr. Johnson, published in 1773. This edition became the standard for all future editions and publishers And the Engraving by Daniell 2 135 John Taylor, 1794 Oculist. 136 — Townley, 1797 Proctor in the Commons. 137 R. Waithman, 1804 138 Sir George Walker, 1809 139 Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1793 Born in 1717. Prince of English letter-writers and great collector and connoisseur ; third son of Sir Robert Walpole, succeeded his nephew George, Earl of Orford ; he never married ; his chief works consisted in Memoirs of the reigns of George II. and George III. 140 Peter Warren, 1795 - -1141 Peter Warren 2G / /*-/ ^ cV 142 Caleb Whitefoord, 1795 Wine merchant and picture collector. He w s Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies; he is termed by Peter Cunningham the “ Papirius Cursor of the Newspaper press ” ; he is painted as the hero in Wilkie’s picture of The Letter of Introduction. Goldsmith wrote the following epitaph for him thirty years before his death (he died in 1800) :— Here Whitefoord reclines, and, deny it who can, Though he merrily lived he is now a grave man. Ye newspaper witlings, ye pert scribbling folks Who copied his squibs and re-echoed his jokes, Ye tame imitators, ye servile herd, come, Still follow your master and visit his tomb. The Retaliation. 143 William Wilmot, 1802 144 Du. Wolcott (Peter Pindar), 1793 'f- ^ Writer and satirist. He went to Jamaica to practise medicine, then returned to England and was ordained by the Bishop of London, that he might accept a cure of souls in Jamaica ; in 1782 he commenced his long series of attacks on established authorities, political, literary, social and artistic ; the Pitt Ministry attempted to buy his silence by a pension of 300Z. a year. He died in 1819. 145 — W HOUGHTON, 1808 Comedian. 146 Arthur Young, 1795 Noted agriculturist and agricultural writer. Born in Suffolk in 1741. First Secretary of the Board of Agricul¬ ture. Died in 1820. 147 An Engraver, 1799 148 Superintendent of the Bengal 27 S’- - ^ - /*.• — /£. - / ■ _ r- — 149 PORTRAIT OF THE AUDITOR OF THE BOARD OF W0HKS 150 Portrait of a Surgeon, 1798 151 Portrait of an Architect, 1799 -%$ct*sJ&rKSLnA 152 Portrait of a Gentleman, 1793 (153 Portrait of a French Painter, 1794 £?n'/7) 164 Portrait of a Gentleman who was the Editor of a Paper,‘W95 155 A Volume, containing a series of thirteen drawings illustrating the Story of Valentine and Orson ; also three drawings of probably Political Caricatures of the characters in the Story, and Six Landscapes 156 A volume, containing numerous water-colour drawings of named subjects; also caricatures of Marshal Soult, Sir John Coxon, Le Chevalier Bayard, Marshal Suwarrow ; the drawing of the Miser, engraved by Daniell; and others n , 7 157 Drawings, sketches and fragments, by Nathaniel Dance, B.A.: a volume containing several portraits, studies of heads and . figures, landscapes, and caricatures in pencil, chalk and ink ,S 7«- rMkJky. 158 Six Albums, bound in calf ^ 1^/9- d- L FINIS. 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