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CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS 
 
 OF 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A., 
 
 EXHIBITED AT THE 
 
 GROSVENOR GALLERY, 
 
 MDCCCLXXXIII-IV. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTO-INTAGLIO PLATES AFTER THE 
 ORIGINALS BY ALFRED DAWSON. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS, 
 TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. 
 1884. 
 
EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS 
 
 OF 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, RR.A, 
 
 WITH HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 BY 
 
 F. G. STEPHENS, 
 
 AUTHOR OF "ENGLISH CHILDREN AS PAINTED BY 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS." 
 
NOTICE. 
 
 "IR COUTTS LINDSAY and the Directors of the Grosvenor 
 Gallery desire to express their thanks to the owners of works 
 by Sir Joshua Reynolds for the readiness with which many 
 of the most famous and valued productions of the master 
 
 have been entrusted to them for the present exhibition. 
 
 They likewise take this occasion of recording their indebtedness to Dr. 
 Hamilton, from whose valuable catalogue of the engraved works of Sir 
 Joshua they have derived constant assistance in forming the collection, and 
 in classifying and describing the pictures for exhibition. Also to Mr. F. G. 
 Stephens, who has kindly supplied the historical and illustrative notes ac- 
 companying the catalogue. 
 
 Frequent reference has been made to the " Life and Times of Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds," by C. R. Leslie and Tom Taylor. 
 
 Considerable difficulties present themselves in the preparation of even 
 the simplest lists of Reynolds's works. The most embarrassing of these diffi- 
 culties arises from the fact that many portraits of the same person bear 
 different names and are widely known under varying titles ; thus, many 
 
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 Notice. 
 
 ladies who were painted in their maiden state, retain, in the pictures, their 
 original names, while the titles of other examples have followed the altera- 
 tions of the sitters' designations. No rule has been observed in this matter. 
 The practice of the compilers of this catalogue has been to adopt the titles 
 given by the owners of the pictures, adding other accepted or correct 
 titles. 
 
 The Exhibition will open at lo a.m. and close at 6 p.m. from the 31st 
 December to the 29th March. 
 
 Admission one shilling ; season tickets, five shillings. Catalogues one 
 shilling. 
 
 SUMMER EXHIBITION, 1884. 
 
 Pictures and Drawings are admitted to the Gallery solely on Sir Coutts 
 Lindsay's invitation. Every possible care will be taken of the works sent 
 for exhibition, but Sir Coutts Lindsay cannot hold himself responsible for 
 injury or loss. 
 
 Artists can insure their works at the Gallery at the rate of 2s. 6d. per cent. 
 The prices of works to be disposed of should be communicated to the 
 Secretary. A deposit of 25 per cent, must be made at the Gallery when a 
 work is purchased. 
 
 No work can be removed before the close of the Exhibition. 
 
CATALOGUE. 
 
 The Numbers commence in the larger or West Gallery, and continue from left to right. 
 
 The terms "right" and "left" in the descriptions of the pictures denote the right and 
 left of the spectator. 
 
 In describing the size of a picture, the first measurement indicates the height, the second 
 the width, of the canvas or panel. 
 
 Portraits are described as of four sizes: — "bust" the head and shoulders; "half- 
 length," to the waist; "three-quarters length" to the knee or a little *J)elow ; 
 " whole length" the entire figure. 
 
 WEST GALLERY. 
 
 I. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. 
 
 Lent by Louis Huth, Esq. 4 10 '^^^ 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds was bom July l6, 1723, four months before the death of Kneller, ('^.^"'Aj^ M»o--i\^ if- 
 
 his most eminent predecessor in portrait-painting in this country during the eighteenth ' 
 
 century. Educated at Plymptoa St. Mary, Plymouth, he came to London as a pupil of 
 Hudson in 1 741, remained with this master less than two years, and, returning home, painted 
 many portraits at a low 'price (seventy shillings) ; of his skill at this time, or earlier^ 
 
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West Gallery. 
 
 No. 2 is the best example in this gallery. At this date he painted Lord Normanton's 
 "Boy reading," which was in the Academy in 1883. It is dated 1747. He was soon after 
 this (1749) introduced to Commodore Keppel, see No. 181, one of his earlier friends being 
 the Rev. Z. Mudge, Vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, see No. 206. With Keppel he 
 sailed to the Mediterranean, and after passing through Port Mahon, Algiers, and Leghorn, 
 reached Rome, where he stayed nearly two years ; his studies were directed to Michael 
 Angelo's works in the Sistine Chapel, where, during bad weather, he worked, caught 
 cold, and became veiy deaf, so that thereafter, when in the company of more than one 
 person, he was compelled to use an ear-trumpet. At Rome he painted the " Caricatures," 
 No. 1 88. At Petworth is "A Holy Family " painted at this period. He studied else- 
 where in Italy, and returned to London in October, 1752 ; a visit to Devonshire, when 
 he painted Dr. John Mudge, lasted three months ; returning to the metropolis he 
 settled for a time in St. Martin's Lane, rapidly rose in reputation, and painted "Commodore 
 Keppel," No. 181, which laid the foundation of his fortune; this was in 1753. He 
 removed to Great Newport Street in a short time, and painted many heads at the rate 
 of twelve guineas each. Henceforward his progress was very rapid. Of his art shortly 
 after this time, showing how greatly he had improved, the portrait of Lady Cathcart 
 and her daughter, No. 71, which is dated I75S) is a capital example; so is "Alderman 
 Beckford," No. 179. The price of the former elaborate group was thirty- five guineas. 
 "Lady Elizabeth Montagu," No. 77, and "Lady C. Keppel," No. 123, were painted in 
 the same year, so was the "Countess of Essex," No. 83. " Sir F. Blake-Delaval," No. 
 101, painted in 1758, is the next example in this gallery. The "Duchess of Hamilton," 
 No. 26, is due to the same year, and a still more powerfiil work, " Lady Selina 
 Hastings," No. 169, belongs to 1759. Reynolds became intimate with Dr. Johnson, see 
 No. 97, Baretti (No. 73), John Wilkes, the Dilettanti Society (see " Group," Nos. 21 and 32, 
 which pictures were painted long after), Garrick (No. 143), the Duchess of Gloucester 
 (No. 136), and others. In 1760 he removed to Leicester Fields. In this year he exhibited 
 the "Duchess of Gloucester," No. 136 ; the lady was then Countess Waldegrave. " Lord 
 Amherst," No. 174, came in 1765. In 1766 Reynolds was elected a member of the 
 Dilettanti Society, and painted " Sir John Cust," No. 38. In 1768 he was knighted, and 
 became President of the Royal Academy. In 1769, Jan, 2, he delivered his first Discourse 
 to the Students of that institution. From this time he worked with almost uninter- 
 rupted assiduity and success, producing many hundreds of pictures, a large proportion 
 of the finer of which are in this collection. He died Feb. 23, 1792. His first and last 
 portraits of himself are here, Nos. 2 and 106. 
 
 Half length, in spectacles ; dark green coat. 
 
 Painted, 1789. Canvas, 295 X 245 inches. Engraved by Caroline Watson as the 
 frontispiece to Malone's "Life of Reynolds," 1798, vol. i. 
 
IVest Gallery. 
 
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 2. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. The first portrait he painted 
 
 of himself ; given to his niece, Lady Thomond, and left by 
 her to her sister, Mrs. Theophila Gwatkin, and given by the 
 latter to her grandson, J. R. Gwatkin. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Gwatkin. 
 
 See No. io6. This picture was at the British Institution in 1823, at Manchester, 1857, 
 and at Leeds in 1868. 
 
 Bust in an oval ; full face turned over the left shoulder ; dark coat. 
 
 Painted, c. 1 748. Canvas, 29^ X 24 inches. 
 
 3. Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Leeds. 
 
 Half length, with spectacles. See No. I. 
 Painted, 1788. Canvas, 29! X 245 inches. 
 
 4. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., taken in old age. 
 
 Lent by ILorace N. Pym, Esq. 
 
 Head in profile, turned to the left. 
 
 Painted, c. 1788. Canvas, 13I X lis inches. 
 
 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy, 
 
 Member of the Imperial Academy at Florence, D.C.L. Oxon. 
 and Dublin, Fellow of the Royal Society. 
 
 L^ent by the Royal Academy. 
 
 A three-quarters length figure, in official cap and red gown ; right hand on his hip ; 
 elbow under the drapery ; left hand resting on a table, on which, in allusion to his profound 
 admiration of Michael Angelo, often expressed in his Discourses to the Students of the 
 Royal Academy — is a bust of that artist. The red gown belongs to Reynolds's costume as 
 a D.C.L., an honour he, with Dr. Seattle, Lord Shelburne, and others, received in July, 
 1773) Oxford. According to the inscription under the mezzotint by Valentine Green 
 from this picture, it was "Painted by himself, for the Royal Academy, 1780." It is 
 practically, though not actually, Sir Joshua's diploma worlc, his gift to the institution of 
 which he was one of the most illustrious members. 
 
 This picture usually hangs in the Council Chamber of the Royal Academy ; it has been 
 generously lent on the present occasion, and now occupies a leading place in the largest 
 
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 JVest Gallery. 
 
 collection ever made of the works of the P.R.A. A version, in a similar costume, of this 
 picture is in the Florence Gallery of celebrated painters' portraits. It was presented by Sir 
 Joshua to that great collection, on his admission to the Academy there. The Duke of 
 Rutland has a third picture in a similar costume. 
 
 This portrait was exhibited at the British Institution in 1813, when the Directors of 
 that society first collected pictures by old and deceased modern masters, and inaugurated 
 the series with a selection of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 142 in all, which, until 
 the present exhibition was formed, was the largest gathering but one of the kind. It was 
 not included in the next considerable collection of Reynoldses, that at the British 
 Institution in 1823. It was there, however, in 1843, among the Art-Treasures at Man- 
 chester, 1857, in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867, and in the Royal Academy Winter 
 Exhibition, 1870. 
 
 The most numerous collection of Reynoldses before the present was at the National 
 Portrait Exhibition, 1867. 
 
 Painted, 1780. Panel, 5o|- X 40 inches. Engraved by Val. Green, and J. Bond. 
 
 c9 6. Admiral Lord Anson, the Circumnavigator. 
 ) Lent by the Earl of Lichfield. 
 
 George Anson was the second son of William Anson of Shugborough, Staffordshire, 
 where the sailor was born, April 23, 1697 ; he entered the navy, but afterwards established 
 himself in South Carolina, where he founded a town called " Ansonville. " In 1730 he 
 commanded an expedition against the Spanish trade in the Pacific, in the conduct of which 
 he circumnavigated the globe ; he burnt Paita in Peru (see " Commodore Keppel," 
 No. 181), and captured the Manilla galleon, "Nostra Signora de Cabadonga," with 550 
 men, and the value of ;^35o,ooo on board. Returning to Portsmouth, he sailed through 
 the French fleet in a fog ; commanded the Channel Fleet ; captured a large French convoy, 
 1747; was created Baron Anson in the same year, and became, with a short interval, First 
 Lord of the Admiralty from 1751 till 1762. Admiral of the Fleet, in 1761, he convoyed 
 Queen Charlotte to England. He died at Moor Park, June 6, 1762. 
 
 Sir G. Bowyer sold this picture after it had been shown at the National Portrait Exhi- 
 bition in 1867. A copy is in the National Portrait Gallery. 
 
 One of the ships of the great voyage, begun September, 1740, was the "Centurion," 
 in which, at a later date, April 25, 1749, Keppel (Nos. 44 and 181) took Reynolds, when 
 the latter left England for the first time, to Algiers (see No, i), Minorca, and Italy. 
 This ship had a memorable history that deserves to be written. The sailor who lounges on 
 the top of the coach in Hogarth's " The Stage Coach " apparently belonged to this famous 
 vessel, his bundle is labelled with her name. Another of Anson's companions was 
 "Admiral Saunders," No. 203. 
 
IVest Gallery. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in the naval uniform of the period ; looking to the right ; right 
 hand on hip, left hand resting on an anchor ; in the distance a ship saluting. 
 
 Painted, 1755. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. Engraved by James McArdell, 1755. 
 
 Mrs. Abington in the character of "Miss Prue," in "Love 
 FOR Love." 
 
 Lent by Sir Charles Mills, Bart. 
 
 Frances (vi^ho called herself Barton, bom in 1731, or 1738) vs'as said to be the daughter 
 of a soldier in the guards, and was variously reported to have begun life as an errand girl, as ■ ^i^i^jj^^ Kl-<tL> Kj 
 
 a milliner's assistant, and as a flower-seller in St. James's Park. She appeared at the Hay- * 
 market Theatre as " Miranda " in the Busy-Body, 1755, but failed to impress the audience. 
 Soon after this she married Mr. Abington, her music-master, with whom she did not live long. 
 Her first success was at Dublin, as " Kitty " in High Life below Stairs ; this evoked a ficrore 
 of admiration for the saucy actress, and her very cap became fashionable as the "Abington 
 Cap "in every shop window and on every fashionable head. She returned to London in 
 1765, and took service with Garrick, whom she plagued most unmercifully, so that it was 
 said she "was not unlike the miller's mare, for ever looking for a white stone to shy at." 
 Northcote said that she offended Goldsmith by, at the last moment, refusing to take the 
 part which he had written on purpose for her, in She Stoops to Conquer ; therefore on the first 
 night the character was performed by another actress, to Goldsmith's great mortification. 
 Smith and Woodward also refused their parts, Mrs. Bulkely declined the epilogue because 
 she could not sing, and Miss Catley followed suit. Mrs. Abington succeeded Pritchard 
 and Mrs. Clive in public favour, and became the first comic actress of the day. She 
 appeared on the stage for the last time in April, 1799 ; died at her house in Pall Mall, 
 March 4, 1815, and was buried in St. James's Churchyard, Piccadilly. 
 
 Her chief characters were "Lady Teazle," in the School for Scandal; "Miss Prue," 
 in Congreve's comedy; " Roxalana," in Sultan ; the "Comic Muse," in the Jubilee; 
 "Widow Belmore," in the Way to Keep Him; "Beatrice," in Much Ado About 
 Nothing; and "Charlotte," in The Hypocrite. Reynolds painted her (i) in 1771, in a 
 cardinal cloak out of character ; this picture was at the Academy last year. (2) Again, 
 in 1782, as " Roxalana," putting aside a curtain — a portrait Reynolds gave to the actress : 
 she entrusted it to Sherwin to engrave, who, notwithstanding her plaintive remon- 
 ' strances, kept it nearly four years before he finished the plate. (3) Again, 1764, as the 
 " Comic Muse," a whole-length picture which is now at Knole, was engraved by J. Watson, 
 and appeared at the British Institution in 1817 and 1846, and at the Academy in 1873. 
 (4) As " Lady Teazle," and (5) as " Miss Prue," the likeness which is now before us, and 
 represents an incident in Act HI., Scene I, of Congreve's Love for Love, where Ben, just 
 returned from sea, and a lout in his manners, makes love to the hoyden by order of his 
 
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 fatlier, and, with awkward courtesy, giving her a chair, offers to sit near her. In her 
 petulant way she cried : — " You need not sit so near; if you have anything to say, I can 
 hear you further off ; I arn't deaf." Walpole preferred Mrs. Abington in " Lady Teazle." 
 
 Boswell tells us how Johnson boasted of Mrs. Abington having " insisted so much on my 
 coming " when she played Charlotte for her benefit, March 27, 1775, and how the doctor went 
 to Drury Lane, with Reynolds and others, Sir Joshua " having secured forty places in the 
 front boxes ", and done to Boswell " the honour to put me in the group. " Johnson sat in the 
 seat immediately behind Boswell, and, as he could neither see nor hear at such a distance, 
 he was wrapped in thought during the whole of the glittering performance, " seemed quite in 
 a cloud." Johnson went to sup with her, and afterwards teazed Mrs. Thrale with "Mrs. 
 Abington's jelly, my dear lady, is better than yours." — See T. Davies's " Garrick," c. 52. 
 
 Half length, seated, looking full face, with her arms leaning on the back of a chair ; the 
 left hand raised to the lips ; pink dress, with white lace trimming. 
 
 Painted, 1764. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 8. Sir George Beaumont, Bart., of Coleorton, M.P. 
 
 Lent by Sir George Bemtmont, Bart. 
 
 Sir George Rowland Beaumont, 7th baronet, husband of Lady Beaumont, No. 183, 
 ' "■/ ' was born at Dunmow, November, 1753; educated at Eton and Oxford; M.P. for Beer 
 
 Alston in 1790. An energetic patron of artists, and an amateur painter, he promoted the 
 formation of the National Gallery, to which institution he presented sixteen pictures. He died 
 at Coleorton in February, 1827. He was on intimate terms with Reynolds, who bequeathed 
 to him his favourite picture by Sebastian Bourdon, "The Return of the Ark," which is 
 now in the National Gallery. He was one of the pall-bearers at Sir Joshua's funeral. He 
 gave commissions to Wilkie, then quite unknown, for " The Blind Fiddler," and to Haydon 
 for "Macbeth." Haydon and Wilkie visited Sir George at Coleorton in 1809, and the former 
 gave a characteristic account of his entertainer. Going there again in 1837, ten years after 
 the host's death, he walked through the house and noticed with regret the "two superb 
 heads (by Sir Joshua) of Sir George and Lady Beaumont pushed high up to make way for 
 some commonplace trash." Reynolds's ledger contains a note of a second payment of fifty 
 guineas from Sir G. Beaumont, in July, 1787. 
 
 This picture was at the British Institution in 18 13 and 1823, and at the National 
 Portrait Exhibition, 1 867. 
 
 Half length; three-quarters face, turned to the left ; black coat, white cravat, powdered 
 hair ; a crimson curtain in background. 
 
 Painted, 1787. Canvas, 29 J X 24I inches. Engraved by an anonymous engraver 
 on a private plate ; and by S, W. Reynolds. 
 
West Gallery. 
 
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 9. Mrs. Pelham feeding Chickens. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Yarborough. 
 
 She sat to Re)niolds in July, 1770, as Miss Aufrere, and, in the next year, as 
 Mrs. Pelham. She was the daughter of Mr. George Aufrere of Chelsea, and married 
 Mr. C. Anderson Pelham, Recorder of Great Grimsby, who was created, in 1794, Baron 
 Yarborough ; he took the name of Pelham on inheriting the estates of his great-uncle, 
 Captain Pelham. Mrs. Pelham died in 1786. 
 
 This picture was in the Manchester Art-Treasures Exhibition, 1857, and at the 
 Academy in 1875. 
 
 Whole length ; in a flowered dress ; her left arm supports a sieve, from which she is 
 feeding poultry and pigeons ; farm buildings, &c., in the distance. 
 
 Painted, 1770. Canvas, 93 X 565 inches. Engraved by W. Dickinson, and S. W. 
 Reynolds. 
 
 10. Admiral the Hon. John Byron when a Captain. 
 
 Lent by William Byron, Esq. 
 
 This portrait represents Admiral the Hon. John Byron, known as "Foul-weather ^ ^W. , ^yt^iVtC 
 
 Jack," grandfather of Lord Byron the poet, and second son of the 4th Lord Byron. He 
 was bom November 8, 1723, and entered the Navy on board the " Wager," one of Lord 
 Anson's circumnavigating squadron. Cast away on a desolate island in the South Seas, 
 he, after enduring five years' hardships there (of which in 1768 he published a " Narrative "), 
 returned to England in 1748, and rose to great eminence in his profession; becoming 
 Rear-Admiral in 1775, he commanded in North America and the West Indies in 1778-9, 
 and fought a bloody battle with a greatly superior French sliip off the Island of Grenada. 
 He married Sophia, born Trevannion, of Carhays, Cornwall, and died in 1786. He sat 
 to Reynolds in March, 1 759. 
 
 Three-quarters length, full face, with arms crossed, resting on a stick ; naval uniform ; 
 in the distance a view of the sea with a ship. 
 
 Painted, 1759. Canvas, 49 X 39i inches. 
 
 II. 
 
 Mrs. N ESBITT AS " CiRCE." *^yv(*u f-iAVtiui 
 
 Lent by the Dowager Lady Stanley of Alder ley. 
 
 This is one of the most beautiful, poetic, and pathetic of Reynolds's subject-portraits. 
 The amorous, astute, and treacherous expression of the lovely face fitted the character of (Xf^^ ^^(XC \ StSQ / I QOO 0 
 the witch whose name has been given to the picture. The sitter was one of the ' , 
 
 mistresses of Augustus John, 3rd Earl of Bristol, the putative husband of the Duchess • ^^'^^f^ isWn^. 
 
 of Kingston ( " Iphigenia, " born Chudleigh) ; his marriage to " Iphigenia " was the 
 
JVest Gallery. 
 
 subject, of a long and costly law-suit. He died in December, 1779, and Walpole wrote 
 of his will to Lady Upper-Ossory (the mother of " Collina," see No. 153, and " Sylvia "), 
 as follows: — "Lord Coventry and Colonel Harvey are Lord Bristol's executors. He 
 has left an estate of 800/., that he had purchased, to Mrs. Nesbitt for life, paying 
 300/. a year to his natural son by Mrs. Clarke (the wife of Field-Marshal Sir Alured 
 Clarke, the ' Kitty Hunter ' of the Admiralty, who ran away with the Earl of Pembroke, ■ 
 see 'The Earl of Pembroke,' No. 159) till (he is) of age, and 400/. afterwards, he to 
 have the whole if surviving her ; if not, she and Colonel Hervey to have the property of 
 the whole. His personal estate, estimated at 30,000/., Lord Bristol divides between Mrs. 
 Nesbitt and the aforesaid son. I do not hear of another legacy, not even to his sisters." 
 This picture was exhibited at the Academy in 1876, the catalogue of which exhibition 
 states, that it was "painted in 1 781 for the Earl of Bristol, and given by him to Sir John 
 Stanley." The date, although it agrees with Reynolds's pocket-book, which includes 
 "Mrs. Nesbitt" among the sitters of 1781, is inconsistent with the fact that the earl died 
 in 1779. Either there was no gift, or there was another Mrs. Nesbitt, who sat in 1 78 1. Sir 
 Charles Bunbury paid Reynolds, according to a dateless entiy in his ledger, thirty-five 
 guineas for a " Circe," the first payment. Sir Charles likewise paid for " Miss Kennedy," 
 or " Polly Kennedy," sister of the ruffians whose trial for the murder of a~ watchman 
 excited the popular mind, and vexed the macaronies, because the latter liked not that 
 one of their order should suffer in the persons of the woman's brothers, while the people 
 were exasperated because the privileges of a class should seem to be evoked to protect 
 the wrong-doers. Sir Charles was the doubly unlucky spouse of the beautiful and daring 
 Lady Sarah Bunbury, whom Reynolds painted in the Holland House picture, and as 
 "Sacrificing to the Graces." Sir Charles, as mentioned above, paid for the meretrix's 
 portrait in " Polly Kennedy," and might have paid for this " Circe." 
 
 A portrait of " Mrs. Nesbitt," the property of the Hon. Edmund Phipps, was at the 
 British Institution in 1843, this was ' doubtless the same as Portrait of Mrs. Nesbitt in a 
 white dress, with a Dove, which was sold with the pictures of Mr. E. Phipps in 1859, for 
 ;^630. It now belongs to Sir R. Wallace. In the Academy of 1876 Lady Stanley of 
 Alderley exhibited the picture now before us, which was given by the Marquis of Bristol 
 to Sir John Stanley. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; seated in the character of Circe ; white dress ; holding a wand 
 in her right hand ; by her side a panther and a white cat ; to the left a goblet ; landscape 
 background. 
 
 Painted, 1 78 1. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. 
 
 12. Miss Gwatkin (daughter of " Offie ") as " Simplicity." 
 
 Lent by E. Fagon Watson, Esq. 
 
 Sketch for the larger picture. 
 
West Gallery. 
 
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 Three-quarters length, as a girl, sitting (inscribed Simplicity ") ; head turned to right ; 
 face in profile ; in a lace cap ; white dress ; black sash ; her hands in her lap ; fingers 
 turned upwards. 
 
 Painted, 1788, Canvas, 8x7 inches. 
 
 13. Lord George Seymour, when a Boy — Hon, G. Seymour 
 
 Conway. 
 
 Lent by the Marquis of Hertford. 
 
 Probably this is the " Conway, Lord Hertford's Son " of Sir Joshua's notes in February, 
 1770. In theledger " Master Conway" stood for;^36 15^-. in 1770. Lord George Seymour 
 Conway was the seventh son and thirteenth child of the ist Marquis of Hertford (see Nos. 
 37 and 187), bom July 21, 1 763, married Isabella, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. George 
 Hamilton ; his eldest son was Sir George Hamilton Seymour, the diplomatist. 
 
 See No. 202. 
 
 Half length ; face turned to the left ; Van Dyck dress with green cloak over the left 
 shoulder ; gloved hand. 
 
 Painted, 1770. Canvas, 24 X 18 inches. Engraved by E. Fisher, 1771. 
 
 14. Colonel, afterwards General the Hon. William Keppel, 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 Small portrait of No. 28. 
 
 Half length ; three-quarters face turned to the right ; red coat with black and gold 
 facings ; sash over the right shoulder. 
 
 Painted, 1758. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
 15. Sir Joshua Reynolds's Black Servant. 
 
 Lent by the Rt. Hon. George Cavendish-Bentinck, M.P. 
 
 See "A Negro," No. 42, which has been said to be another portrait of this person. 
 Northcote, in the "Life of Reynolds," i. 204, preserved an anecdote of Sir Joshua's 
 relations with this servant. Reading in a newspaper that a man then in Newgate had been 
 condemned to death for a robbery from this negro, he, in astonishment, summoned the latter, 
 and learnt that after Mrs. Williams, Dr. Johnson's old and blind inmate, had dined in 
 Leicester Square with Miss Reynolds, the negro was ordered to attend her to Bolt Court, and, 
 on returning, was detained by some of his companions until too late to be re-admitted to Sir 
 Joshua's house. The man wandered about the street and took shelter in a watch-house, 
 where, falling asleep, he was robbed. The thief was detected with the stolen things in his 
 
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 possession ; he was tried, found guilty, and condemned to death. Sir Joshua employed 
 Burke's influence to procure commutation of the sentence to transportation, and supplied 
 the convict with all necessaries before he left England. The negro, previously a slave of 
 Mr. Morris, of Piercefield, was Reynolds's footman under Ralph, the knight's henchman ; 
 he sat for pictures, particularly in that of the Marquis of Granby, where he holds the horse. 
 "Frank " sat to Reynolds in April, 1767. 
 
 Head, full face ; unfinished study. " 
 
 Painted, 1767. (?) Canvas, 16 X I2j inches. 
 
 i5. John, ist Lord Boringdon, when Mr. Parker. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Morley, 
 
 Full length, in sporting dress, leaning on a gate ; turned to the left, and carrying a gun 
 on his left arm. 
 
 Painted, 1766. (?) Canvas, 3S2 X inches. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 17. Miss Theophila Palmer. 
 
 Lent by George Wodehouse Currie, Esq. 
 
 Half length, seated ; face turned to the right ; blue dress, black mantilla ; gloved 
 hand. 
 
 Painted, 1776. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by J. R. Smith, 1777. 
 
 18. Master Wynn as " The Infant St. John." 
 
 Lent by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart. 
 
 Sitting, holding a cup, into which water is flowing from a rock ; a lamb by his side. 
 See No. 21. This picture was at the British Institution 1813, and at Manchester, 1857. 
 
 Painted, 1776, Canvas, 27^ X 3S2 inches. Engi-aved by John Dean, 1776. 
 
 ig. Portrait of a Lady. 
 
 Lent by Major-Gen. R. Mackenzie. 
 
 Half length ; three-quarters face turned to the left. Ermine cloak over a white bodice ; 
 a strip of black velvet tied round the neck. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
West Gallery. 
 
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 20. Master Thomas Lister, afterwards the ist Lord 
 
 RiBBLESDALE. 
 
 Brother of "Miss B. Lister," No. 91. 
 
 Whole length, in a landscape ; Van Dyck dress ; standing with one foot crossed before 
 the other ; right hand raised and leaning on a staff. 
 
 Painted, 1764. Canvas, 91 X SS inches. 
 
 21. Group of Portraits of Members of the Dilettanti Society. 
 No. I. 
 
 The first of the pair of grouped portraits of members of the Dilettanti Society, contains 
 likenesses, beginning at the side of the picture, of, I, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P. (with one 
 hand'extended, the other on a book), in the act of speaking ; 2, Mr., afterwairds Sir John 
 Taylor, Bart., standing behind, holding a glass in his right hand, a handkerchief in his left 
 hand ; 3, Mr. Stephen Payne- Gall wey, drinking from a wine-glass ; 4, The Right Hon. Sir 
 William Hamilton, the husband of Romney's and Nelson's "Lady Hamilton," seated 
 at the table in the middle of the composition ; 5, Mr. Richard Thompson, standing behind, 
 holding up a wine-glass ; 6, Mr. W. Spencer- Stanhope, in profile, talking to the last 
 named ; 7, Mr. Smyth, of Heath. 
 
 This picture and its companion were painted for the society ; each member being 
 bound to present his portrait, the whole body was, in these cases, grouped. We know from 
 Re3molds's ledger that some, if not all of the members, paid him, each for his own portrait. 
 "Feb. 24, 1791, Sir W. W. Wynn, in full, 124/. 4. o." (this included other portraits, such 
 as " Master Wynn, as the Infant St. John," see No. 18). In "May, 1781, Sir John Taylor, 
 for Dilettanti, 30/. 15^. o." "Sir Wm. Hamilton. Dilettanti picture, 30/. 15^. o.", occurs 
 without a date. In June, 1780, "Mr. Stanhope Dilettanti picture, 36/. 15^. o." In 
 February, 1778, "M^. Gallway, 18/. i^s. 6d.," a. first pa3rment. This picture was exhibited, 
 with its companion, at the British Institution in 1846, with a key-plate, as above, attached 
 to the catalogue ; the picture was in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1868. 
 
 The Dilettanti Society was founded in 1732, many years before this picture was painted, 
 for the encouragement of studies in antiquity and the arts. The body promoted the publica- 
 tion of many books of a costly nature, some of which retain considerable value to this day, and 
 not a few of Reynolds's friends were members of the body. The establishment of a society 
 intended to include amateurs and artists had been one of the objects of this association, 
 which had failed, because the latter, as represented by Hogarth and others, would not ally 
 themselves with the lay element, as represented by the former. In the end the artists, 
 under the presidency of Reynolds formed, out of the till then unstable bodies of their 
 
 Lent by the Dilettanti Society. 
 
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 profession, the Royal Academy, as it originally existed. The laymen remain distinct, and 
 are represented by the present Dilettanti Society, the owners of this picture, a body which 
 is considerably the oldest of its kind devoted to the study of artistic antiquity in the kingdom. 
 A certain amount of conviviality was practised by the society, as indicated in this picture, 
 and, still more, by its companion. No. 32. A painter was officially a necessity of the asso- 
 ciation; Knapton, "Athenian Stuart," Reynolds, and Lawrence successively occupied this 
 office. Reynolds was elected a member in May, 1766 ; this brought him into official connec- 
 tion with its members, and led to the production of these pictures. 
 
 The " Portrait of Sir J. Reynolds," belonging to the Dilettanti Society, No. 105, was 
 presented by him to that body when he was elected a member. 
 
 This picture, although it has been repeatedly cleaned, is in excellent preservation, and 
 remarkable for the richness of its colour and clear illumination. 
 
 Painted, 1777-9. Canvas, 78 X 61 inches. Engraved by W. Say. 
 
 22. Babe in the Wood. A Sleeping Girl. 
 
 Lent by Horace N. Pym, Esq. 
 
 An oil sketch. 
 
 Half length ; a young girl seated with head resting upon her arms. 
 Painted, 1788? Canvas, 29I X 24 inches. 
 
 23. Old Man wearing a Cap. 
 
 Lent by the Rev. W. H. Wayne. 
 
 Signed " J. Reynolds " in left lower corner. 
 Head ; wearing a fur cap ; full face. 
 Painted, , Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
 24. John, Viscount Mountstuart, Baron Cardiff. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Wharncliffe. 
 
 Bust, in an oval ; three-quarters face, turned to the right ; in peer's robes. 
 Painted, 1776. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
 25. Emilia Vansittart. 
 
 Lent by John Thornton, Esq. 
 
 Daughter of Henry Vansittart, Esq., at one time Governor of Bengal, and sister of 
 Lord Bexley, born 1758 ; wife of Edward Parry, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, and a Director 
 of the East India Company. 
 
 Half length, in an oval ; full face, with eyes bent down ; holding a dog in her arms. 
 
 Painted, 1773. Canvas, 29J X 24J inches. 
 
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 26. Elizabeth (Gunning), Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll. 
 
 Len^ by the Duke of Hamilton, K. T. 
 
 This lady married, first, James, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Feb. 14, 1752, and by this 
 union became the mother of James George, 7th, and Douglas, 8th, Dukes of Hamilton. She j( Kft.m lO^v^ Soic 
 
 married, secondly. Col. John Campbell, afterwards the 5th Duke of Argyll, March 17, 1759, f \ U C 1' 
 
 and became mother of George, 6th, and John, 7th, Dukes of Argyll. She was the second '^'^ C 5/ ' 
 
 daughter of John Gunning, Esq., of Castle Coote, Roscommon, and sister of Maria, 
 Countess of Coventry ; and, like the latter, was celebrated for her beauty. She was created 
 Baroness Hamilton in 1776, and died December 20, 1790. She sat to Reynolds for this 
 
 portrait at intervals from January, 1758, to January, 1759. The picture was exhibited in '^\tA'^<idifJjCcJt)u 
 1760, in the Great Room of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi, the room which now con- ** 
 tains Barry's pictures. This was the first exhibition analogous to those now current ; the 
 admission was free, sixpence was charged for the catalogue. The appearance of the 
 " Gunning girls " in 1 75 1, created so great an impression upon the London world that they 
 were mobbed by crowds anxious to see them get into their chairs, and places were taken 
 early at the theatres when they were expected ; according to Walpole, they were so poor 
 before they " came out," that they had intended to become actresses ere they were "at once 
 exalted almost as high as they could be, were Countessed and double-Duchessed." Peg 
 Wof&ngton is said to have lent them dresses. 
 
 When they appeared in the drawing-room at St. James's, the peers and peeresses clam- 
 bered upon tables and chairs to look at them ; several hundred people sat up all night, in 
 and about a Yorkshire inn, to see the Duchess of Hamilton get into her chaise in the morn- 
 ing ; a Worcester shoemaker "got two guineas and a half" at a penny each spectator, by 
 merely showing the shoe he was making for the Countess of Coventry. Walpole wrote to 
 Sir Horace Mann, "About six weeks ago, Duke Hamilton, the very reverse of the Earl (ot 
 Coventry), hot, debauched, extravagant, and equally damaged in his fortune and person, fell 
 in love with the youngest at the masquerade, and determined to marry her in the spring. 
 About a fortnight since, at an immense assembly at my Lord Chesterfield's, made to show 
 the house, which is really most magnificent, Duke Hamilton made violent love at one end 
 of the room, while he was playing at pharaoh at the other end : that is he saw neither the 
 bank nor his own cards, which were of three hundred pounds each ; he soon lost a 
 thousand." "However, two nights afterwards, being left alone with her, while her mother 
 and sister were at Bedford House, he found himself so impatient, that he sent for a parson. 
 The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without a licence or ring : the Duke swore he 
 would send for the Archbishop ; at last they were married with a ring of the bed curtains, 
 at half-an-hour after twelve at night, at May-Fair Chapel. The Scotch are enraged ; the 
 women mad that so much beauty has had its effect : and, what i-^nore silly, my Lord 
 Coventry declares that now he will many the other. " " The world, " Walpole wrote at a later 
 date, "is still mad about the Gunnings." The Duchess of Hamilton was one of the Ladies 
 
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 of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte, and escorted her Majesty to London when she came 
 to be married to George III. After the death of her first husband, the Duchess Elizabeth 
 refused the Duke of Bridgewater, promoter of " Inland Navigation," in order to marry Col. 
 John Campbell. She had thus the choice of three dukes, and refused one of them, who was 
 among the ablest as well as the richest men of the century, "The luck of the Guimings 
 attend you ! " was the blessing bestowed by Irish beggar-women on those who gave them 
 alms. 
 
 At a later date the Duchess of Hamilton distinguished herself by the courage she 
 showed in opposition to one of the Wilkes mobs of 1768. Walpole wrote : — "Atone 
 o'clock they (the rioters) marched to the Duchess of Hamilton's in Argyll Buildings (Lord 
 Lorn being in Scotland). She was obstinate, and would not illuminate, though with child, 
 as they hope, of an heir to the family, and with the Duke, her son (by her first husband), 
 and the rest of her children in the house. There is a small court and parapet wall before 
 the house : they brought iron crows, tore down the gates, pulled up the pavement, and 
 battered the house for three hours. They (the inmates) could not find the key of the back 
 door, nor send for any assistance. The night before, they (the mob) had obliged the Duke 
 and Duchess of Northumberland to give them beer, and appear at the windows, and drink 
 Wilkes's health." They stopped the coach of Count Seilem, the Austrian ambassador, 
 the stiffest and most punctilious of envoys, pulled him out on the pavement, turned his heels 
 in the air, and chalked " '45 " on the soles of his boots. This referred to the famous " No. 
 XLV." of the "North Briton." Mrs. Piozzi's "Autobiography,"!, p. 318, contains an 
 anecdote of a trick played upon the "Gunning girls" when they were making their 
 debut. Gunhilda Gunning, the subject of much talk and public excitement at a later 
 period ( 1 790-1) than that of the marriages of the ladies in question, was the daughter of 
 their brother General Gunning. 
 
 It was the Countess of Coventry who, a few months after this picture was painted, 
 having been stared at in the Park, complained, so that orders were given to protect 
 her in the future. " This her ladyship knew, went to the Park, and pretended to 
 be frightened directly, desired the assistance of the officers on guard, who ordered the 
 twelve sergeants to march abreast before her, and the sergeant and twelve behind her, 
 and in this pomp did the idiot walk all the evening with more mob about her than 
 ever, as you may imagine ; her sensible husband supporting her on one side and Lord 
 Pembroke (see No. 159) on the other." — Letter from the Hon. J. West to LordNuneham, 
 June 26, 1759. Walpole, three days before this, wrote to G. Montagu :— " My Lady 
 Coventry and my niece Waldegrave (No. 152) have been mobbed in the Park." 
 
 Whole length, with landscape background ; her right arm rests upon a marble 
 pedestal, carved in relief. Face turned to left, almost in profile ; white dress \ ei-mine 
 cloak. To the right two doves. 
 
 Painted, 1758. Canvas, 93 X 57 inches. 
 
West Gallery. 
 
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 27. The Ladies Elizabeth Laura; Charlotte Maria; and Anna 
 HoRATiA Waldegrave ; afterwards Countess Walde- 
 grave; Countess of Euston ; and Lady Hugh Seymour. 
 
 "Lady Laura, after. Lady Chewton, is in the middle; Lady Maria is on her r., 
 holding a skein of silk ; and Lady Horatia is working at the tambour. — H. W." (Horace 
 Walpole's catalogue.) 
 
 These portraits of the beautiful daughters of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, and Maria, 
 daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, grand-nieces of Horace Walpole, were painted for him, TOi/e 
 his letter to Mason, May 28, 1 780, not according to his own device, which included their appear- 
 ing ' ' as three Graces adorning a bust of the Duchess of Gloucester their mother (see ' The 
 Duchess of Gloucester, 'Nos. 136, 152), as the Magna Mater." This device would have resulted 
 in something like Reynolds's picture in the National Gallery representing " The Graces 
 decorating a terminal figure of Hymen. " Sir Joshua preferred to paint the ladies at home, 
 and, technically speaking, to produce what is now called a study in white, comprising their 
 white dresses of divers tints, their lofty powdered coiffures, and their brilliant, pure carna- 
 tions. Walpole, while the picture was in hand, described it as "charming," and declared 
 that the faces were " very like," but when the whole was finished, and the question of final 
 payment arose, he began to grumble thus : " Sir Joshua Reynolds gets avaricious in his 
 old age. My picture of the young ladies Waldegrave, is doubtless very fine and graceful ; 
 but it cost me 800 guineas," see " Walpoliana," ii., p. 157. This statement seems to be 
 confirmed by the painter's ledger, which contains, under "first payments: — Nov., 1780, 
 The Lady Waldegraves ; paid by H. Walpole, 315.0.0." The second payment and the 
 price of the frame would bring the payer's statement within " measurable distance " of the 
 800 guineas. The leaf following the above entry in the ledger is lost ; it probably recorded 
 the second payment made when the picture was finished and sent home to Strawberry Hill. 
 Had the above been the full payment it is inconceivable that Walpole would have 
 grumbled. Nevertheless the collector of "Walpoliana" may have written "800" for 
 " 300 " guineas, which agrees with the ledger. The Duke of Marlborough paid, the year 
 before this, for the far larger picture of his family of eight figures, only 700 guineas. 
 
 Mr. Tom Taylor recognized in the faces of Walpole's nieces the influence of 
 that disappointment in love which each lady had experienced not long before she sat to 
 Reynolds. Walpole indicated as much when he wrote to Mason : — " You will be charmed, 
 I flatter myself, with poor Horatia, who is not at all well, but has behaved with a gentleness, 
 sweetness, and moderation that are lovely. She has had no romantic conduct, concealed 
 all she could, and discovered nothing she felt but by her looks. She is now more pleasing, 
 though she looks ill, by her silent softness, than before, by her youthful vivacity. Maria, 
 almost as much wounded, and to be pitied, carries off another kind of misfortune with a 
 noble spirit." In this way the sentimental elderly grand'Uncle commiserated the sorrows 
 
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 of his favourites. " These three charming girls," he added, " inherit more of their mother's 
 beauty than her fortune. Each has missed one of the first matches in the country : Lady 
 Laura, Lord Carmarthen ; Lady Maria, Lord Egremont ; and Lady Horatia, the Duke of 
 Ancaster; after each had proposed and been accepted." The facts are that the Ladies 
 Laura and Maria had been jilted by their lovers, and their sister had been deprived of a 
 husband to be by the sudden death of the Duke of Ancaster, July 8, 1779 ; she put 
 on mourning for him, and behaved so as to deserve the admiration of her patron. "Lady 
 Horatia has behaved in the most reasonable manner, shown very proper concern, but 
 nothing romantic or extravagant. " Her loss was not great, as one may guess by her uncle's 
 statement to Sir Horace Mann, made the day after the event : — "The Duke of Ancaster is 
 dead of a scarlet fever contracted by drinking and rioting, at two-and-twenty. He was in 
 love with my niece, Lady Horatia, the Duchess's third daughter, and intended to marry 
 her." "I much doubt whether she would have been happy with him ; for, though he had 
 some excellent qualities, he was of a turbulent nature, and, though of a fine figure, his 
 manners were not noble." The Lady Horatia consoled herself with Lord Hugh Seymour, 
 a sailor, son of the Earl of Hertford. Lady Laura married George, Viscount Chewton, 
 her cousin, afterwards 4th Earl Waldegrave. Lady Maria married the Earl of Euston. 
 
 The table at which those young ladies are working remained at Strawberry Hill ; 
 Walpole wrote thus to Mason, Feb. 10, 1783, of Reynolds's deficiencies in hand- 
 painting : — " Sir Joshua's are seldom even tolerably drawn, I saw t'other day one of, if 
 not the best of his works, the portrait of Lord Richard Cavendish," see No. 176. "Little 
 is distinguished but the head and hand, yet the latter, though nearest to the spectator, is 
 abominably bad : so are those of my three nieces ; and, though the effect of the whole is 
 charming, the details are slovenly, the faces are only red and white ; and his journeyman, 
 as if to distinguish himself, has finished the lock and key of the table like a Dutch flower 
 painter." This remark on the " red and white " of the ladies' carnations is very interesting 
 as showing what was the condition of this picture soon after it was sent home. 
 
 Walpole's letters abound in notices of these ladies, of their looks, their visit to Ranelagh, 
 and other matters. This picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1781, and 
 Walpole commented in his catalogue in regard to it as No. "187, Portraits of three ladies." 
 — " Daughters of the Duchess of Gloucester, a most beautiful composition, the features very 
 like, and the attitudes natural and easy. He did another of them with variations, and I 
 think still finer." This "another" has not, according to Mr. Tom Taylor, who inquired 
 for it, been found. 
 
 It will be noteworthy that some of Reynolds's finest pictures on these walls were produced 
 about this time, and that several of them are, like this group, studies in white, e.g., "Mrs. 
 Nesbitt," No. 11 ; " Lavinia, Countess Spencer," No, 124; "Lady Anne Bingham," 
 No. 112; and "Mrs. Pelham," No. 9. "The Death of Dido" is another modified 
 example ; so is "Thais." 
 
 Besides being at the above exhibition this picture was at the British Institution in 
 
JVest Gallery. 
 
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 1823 and 1856; at the 'National Portrait Exhibition 1867. Fanny Burney went to 
 Leicester Square on the 26th of March, 1781, and saw that : — " Sir Joshua Re)molds is fat 
 and well. He is preparing for the Exhibition a new ' Death q/ZP/r/ij;' portraits of the three 
 beautiful Lady Waldegraves, Horatia, Laura, and Maria, all in one picture, and at work 
 with the tambour ; a Thais, for which a Miss Emily (Bertie), a celebrated courtesan, 
 sat, at the desire of the Hon. Charles Greville ; and what others I know not ; but his room 
 and gallery are both crowded." 
 
 A crimson curtain draped across columns behind the nearly whole-length figures ; to 
 the right a landscape background. 
 
 Painted, 1781. Canvas, 54! X 65 inches. Engraved by Val. Green, 1781. 
 
 28. Colonel, afterwards General the Hon. William Keppel, 
 third son of William Anne, 2nd Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 He conducted the storming of the Mora Castle at the Havannah, in 1762. Brother 
 of "Commodore Keppel," No. 181, and "Lady E. Keppel," No. iii. Son of "Lady 
 Anne Lennox," No. 67. This picture was in the Academy in 1873. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; in uniform ; landscape background, with a fort in the distance, 
 towards which he points with the left hand ; right hand in the breast of his coat. 
 
 Painted, 1765. Canvas, 56 X 672 inches. 
 
 29. MusciPULA — Girl with a Mouse- trap. 
 
 Lent by the Lady Holland. 
 
 " Muscipula," otherwise called the " Girl with a Mouse-trap, " is one of a numerous '^^^^yy.^^^^ L Cvt^' lriv\tc ^ 
 class of pictures in producing which Reynolds exercised his desire to illustrate, or to solve, 
 technical problems, such as combinations of colours or the arranging of masses of light and 
 shade. There is more than one picture bearing this title, and of course to the pictures 
 severally varied dates have been ascribed. Northcote said that Count D'Adhemar (French 
 Ambassador) gave 50 guineas for the "Muscipula" which J. Jones engraved in 1786. 
 The painter's ledger confirms the statement of the price and buyer's name. The design 
 was named, no doubt, on account of the action of the child with the trap, and possibly fol- 
 lowing a vein of Reynolds's humour, which recognized something mouse-like in the quaint 
 features and expression of the child. The work has been so popular that, besides J. Jones, 
 C. Watson, F. Bartolozzi, and S. W. Reynolds engraved it. This picture, unless under 
 another name, has not been exhibited before. 
 
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 Another version of this picture belongs to the Marquis of Lansdowne. See "A Negro," 
 
 Three-quarters length ; a little girl in a cottage, holding a mouse-trap in both hands ; 
 a cat on table to her right ; from window, landscape and cottage in the distance. 
 
 Painted, 1784. Panel, 29 X 24mches. Engraved by J. Jones, 1 786, and S. Cousins, 1879. 
 
 30. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (?). 
 
 Lent by Horace N. Pym, Esq. 
 
 Half length, seated ; three-quarters face, turned to the left ; left hand raised and thrust 
 in the breast of the coat ; right arm resting on the chair. At the Academy, 1882. 
 
 Painted, 1789. Canvas, 29^ X 24^ inches. 
 
 31. The Hon, Mrs. Peter Beckford. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Hamilton, K.T. 
 
 A Mrs. Beckford sat to Reynolds in April, 1782. 
 
 Whole length, with landscape background, represented as offering sacrifice in a 
 Grecian temple. She holds up a cup, and at her feet is a tripod with burning incense. 
 To the right an attendant, kneeling, pours out a libation. 
 
 Painted, 1782? Canvas, 93 X 57 inches. 
 
 32. Group of Portraits of Members of the Dilettanti Society. 
 
 For the history of this picture, see " A Group of Portraits," No. 21. The persons repre- 
 sented are, beginning at the side of the canvas, I, Constantine John, Lord Mulgrave, 
 2nd baron, pointing over his shoulder, a naval captain who essayed to discover the North- 
 west passage. Lord of the Admiralty ; 2, Mr. Alexander, afterwards Lord, Dundas, stand- 
 ing up with a gem between his fingers, holding it against the light ; 3, next him, 
 seated at the table, the Earl of Seaforth, last peer of the name ; 4, The Hon. 
 Charles Greville in the middle, behind; 5, Charles Crowle, Esq., a well-knovm antiquary, 
 next to the last ; 6, Francis Godolphin, 5th Duke of Leeds, then Marquis of Carmarthen, 
 a picture-collector, whose gatherings are at Hornby Castle, Bedale ; he sits at the table 
 holding a gem in one hand, a stick in the other ; 7, Sir Joseph Banks, P.R.S., in profile, 
 behind the last. Bottles, fruit, and wine-glasses are on the table. 
 
 Painted, 1777-9. Canvas, 78 X 61 inches. Engraved by W. Say. 
 
 No. 42. 
 
 No. 2. 
 
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 33. The Countess of Egremont. 
 
 Lent by S. Butler, Esq. 
 
 Half length, profile turned to the left. 
 
 Lady Egremont sat in June, 1762, and October, 1765. In March, 1766, Sir Joshua's 
 notes say, "Send Lady Egremont." 
 
 Painted, 1766. Canvas, 24 X 18 inches. 
 
 34. Sketch for " Robinetta." 
 
 Lent by Horace N. Pym, Esq. 
 
 Half length ; a girl seated, with landscape background, feeding a robin perched upon 
 her shoulder. There are several versions of " Robinetta." 
 
 Painted, 1786. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
 35. Lady William Gordon, born Frances Ingram-Shepherd, 
 daughter of the loth Viscount Irvine. ^V>to r^c*., <^ wU t 
 
 r^-^ by the Marquis of Hertford, j^.f ^ 
 
 been the lover of Lady Sarah Bunbury ; ^ ' 
 
 Lent 
 
 Married, 1 78 1, Lord W. Gordon, v?ho had 
 mother of the child who sat for ' 'Angels' Heads " by Reynolds, which is in the National Gallery. 
 Bust ; full-face ; white kerchief; black mantilla ; white cap. 
 
 Painted, 1779. Canvas, 24 X 18 inches. Engraved by J. Raphael Smith, 1780. 
 
 36, The Guardian Angel. A Child with Angels. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Leeds. 
 
 Half-length figures ; an infant asleep in the arms of an elder child ; an angel encircles 
 both children with her arms. See Malone's " Reynolds," Ixvii. 
 
 Painted, 1785. Canvas, 22J X 24! inches. Engraved by C. H. Hodges, 1786. 
 
 37. First Marquis of Hertford, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 
 
 WHEN A youth. 
 
 Lent by the Marquis of Hertford. 
 
 Son of Francis, ist Baron Conway, and Charlotte Shorter ; Viscount Beauchamp and 
 Earl of Hertford in 1750 ; Earl of Yarmouth, and Marquis of Hertford in 1793 ; died 1794, 
 
 Bust, as a boy ; blue Van Dyck dress with white lace collar; three-quarters face, turned 
 to the left. 
 
 Painted, 1759. Canvas, 24 X i8 inches. 
 
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 38. The Rt. Hon. Sir John Cust, Bart., Speaker of the House 
 OF Commons. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Brownlow. 
 
 On a table lies a paper, inscribed " The Speech of the Speaker of the House of Commons" 
 dated "'Dec. 2, 1761." Sir John, who was born in 1718, was a prominent politician ; M.P. 
 for Grantham; elected Speaker, Nov. 3, 1 761 ; much vilified by Wilkes and others, and 
 frequently satirized on account of the shortness of his nose. Four days after his election, 
 Walpole wrote to G. Montagu, " Sir John Cust is Speaker, and, bating his nose, the 
 chair seems well-filled." He is represented in Hogarth's print of "The Times, Plate II.," 
 and many other satirical engravings. He died five days after resigning the Speakership in 
 1770. The note-book of Reynolds records engagements to paint this picture in July, 1767, 
 and contains a memorandum that he was to send for "the Speaker's wig at Theed's, peruke 
 maker. Middle Temple ; " likewise : — ' ' Mr. Steevens, housekeeper of the House of 
 Commons, to send a day or two before for the Mace." Sir Joshua described the materials 
 he used for this picture, which is in an excellent condition. At this period Reynolds 
 charged £\'y:> for a whole-length portrait. This example was No. 885 in the National 
 Portrait Exhibition, 1868. 
 
 Whole length, in his robes as Speaker ; embroidered coat with steel buttons ; a roll of 
 paper in right hand ; left to hip ; on his left is a paper entitled as above. 
 
 Painted, 1767. Canvas, 106 X 77 inches. Engraved by James Watson. 
 
 39. The Nymph, otherwise " Nymph and Boy," " Venus and Boy," 
 " Venus and Cupid," " La Nymphe indi£f6rente." 
 
 Lent by the Dowager Lady Castletown of Upper-Ossory. 
 
 This work was bequeathed in the following terms by Reynolds : — ' ' I desire the Earl 
 of Upper-Ossoiy would accept of some picture of my ovm painting, that he take his choice 
 of those of my painting which shall be unsold at my death." " In consequence of 
 the above bequest of my most valuable and excellent friend, I have made choice of 
 this painting, representing Nymph & Boy," signed "Upper-Ossory." This attestation 
 was made by John Fitz-Patrick, second and last Earl of Upper-Ossory, the father of 
 "Collina" and "Sylvia," i.e., the Ladies Gertrude and Anne Fitz-Patrick, by Anne, 
 bom Liddell, the divorced wife of the Duke of Grafton. Lady Upper-Ossory was 
 Walpole's frequent correspondent, and one of his greatest favourites. For " Collina " see 
 " Lady Gertrude Fitz-Patrick," No. 153. The earl died in February, 1818, the countess 
 in 1804. The children died unmarried. This picture was at the British Institution in 1844, 
 and at the Academy in 1875, No. 63. 
 
West Gallery. 
 
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 Whole-length nude female figure, reclining in a landscape beneath a crimson curtain. 
 The head of a boy peeping through the trees to the right. 
 
 Painted, 1785. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. Engraved by J. CoUyer, 1786, D. Raimbach, 
 and S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 40. Anthony Chamier, M.P, for Tamworth, one of the original ' ^ A^w<w 
 
 members of the Literary Club, F.R.S. .^Yox Iv 
 
 Lent by Alexander W. MacDotigall, Esq. \^ /y^y.^*^ jt-.^ x la < 
 
 A great friend of Sir Joshua's, died Oct. 12, 1780. He was one of the Under- 
 Secretaries of State, and much assailed by "Junius." The picture which belonged to Mr. 
 John Chamier is still in possession of the family. 
 
 Three-quarters length, sitting at a table ; left hand in his waistcoat ; the right holding 
 a book ; on his right an inkstand. 
 
 Painted, 1767, Canvas, 49 X 39j inches. Engraved by William Ward. 
 
 41. Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch, and her Child, Lady 
 
 Mary Scott. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G. 
 
 This lady was the wife of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, daughter of George, 
 Duke of Montagu ; the child was Lady Mary Scott, who married, in 1 79 1, James George, 
 Earl of Courtown. The duchess died in 1827 ; her daughter in 1823. Reynolds, in 1757, 
 painted the duchess, as Lady Elizabeth Montagu, and her sister Lady Henrietta, in a 
 picture which was exhibited in 1763 by the Incorporated Society of Artists. He painted 
 the former again in 1759, a picture which was engraved by McArdell. She was called " the 
 good duchess," because she expended in judicious charity ,1^30, 000 a year. 
 
 Whole length, sitting on a bench under a tree ; her left arm encircling her child ; two 
 dogs, one of them jumping up on her knees ; a curtain draped over the tree ; landscape, &c. 
 
 Painted, 1772. Canvas, 92 X 57 inches. Engraved by James Watson, 1775 5 ^nd 
 S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 42. A Negro. Said to be Frank Barber, Dr. Johnson's black 
 
 servant. 
 
 Lent by Sir George Beattmont, Bart. 
 
 One of the numerous studies made for practice in painting by Sir Joshua, who was 
 accustomed to "keep his hand in" by means of exercises such as this: from children, 
 men, and women who sat to him as professional models, from paviors, and other labourers 
 whom he encountered in the streets. Occasionally he gave names to these exercises, as 
 
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 West Gallery. 
 
 "Ugolino," "The Banished Lord," "St. John," "St. Agnes," "The Captive," "A 
 Captain of Banditti " (like that he sold to Mr. Crewe for thirty-five guineas in 1 772). Such 
 examples as " The Link Boy," "Boy with a Drawing in his Hand," sold to the Duke of 
 Dorset; " The JBoy with the Cabbage Nets," which C. Hardy engraved ; "Felina," 
 "Muscipula," see No. 29, and the like are studies turned into subject-pictures. The 
 example before us was at the British Institution in 18 13, 1823, and 1861, and was one of the 
 Manchester Art-Treasures, 1857, No. 58, Modern Masters. See "The Portrait of Sir J. 
 Reynolds's Black Servant," No. 15, which is said to represent the same person. Mr. Tom 
 Taylor stated that Mr. F. Byng had a head of this negro. Can this be No. 15 ?- 
 
 Frank Barber, Dr. Johnson's servant, the " Dear Francis " of his letters, to whom 
 this head has been referred, was the lexicographer's affectionate friend, and (with an annuity 
 of seventy pounds to be paid by Bennet Langton) his residuary legatee. Barber was bom in 
 Jamaica, and brought to England in 1750 by Col. Bathurst, who sent him to school, and 
 by will bequeathed the man his freedom. He preferred Johnson's service to another 
 employment, and, with two short intervals, continued with him from 1752 till his death, 
 attending his master at the last hour. Boswell, in the " Life of Johnson," often mentions 
 F. Barber. It was he who received Miss Morris (younger sister of the lady who sat 
 for " Hope nursing Love," by Reynolds, now in the Academy Exhibition), when she called 
 on the Doctor, and, finding him on the point of death, heard his last words when he 
 turned his face to the wall, saying " God bless you, my dear ! " 
 
 Bust, unfinished ; in full face, relieved against a cloudy sky. 
 
 Painted, 1767. Canvas, 29 X 23 inches. 
 
 43. Frances, Marchioness Camden, painted when Lady Bayham. 
 FouvJUK'w) Lent by the Earl Spencer, K.G. 
 
 CrJU(w A^^> ( *) Half-length, sitting in a white dress ; left arm resting on a crimson cushion ; landscape 
 
 I ^ ^ / background. 
 
 Painted, 1786. Canvas, S4I X 445 inches. Engraved by L. Schiavonetti, and Agar. 
 
 44. Commodore, afterwards Admiral, and Viscount Keppel. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 See No. 181. 
 
 Half length, in naval uniform ; turned to the left ; right hand extended resting on his 
 sword ; background of sea and stormy sky. A similar picture is in the National Portrait 
 Gallery. 
 
 Painted, 1760. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. 
 
West Gallery. 
 
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 45. The Match Boy. 
 
 Lent by Selwyn Payne, Esq. 
 
 Three-quarters length of a child in a ragged dress, with a basket on his left arm ; in his 
 right hand he holds a bundle of matches. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 13 X loi inches. 
 
 46. Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer, or *' The Young 
 Fortune Tellers." 
 
 The little girl in this picture was Charlotte, fourth child of George, 3rd Duke of 
 Marlborough, bom October 19, 1769, who, in 1797, married the Rev. Edward Nares, 
 Regius Professor of Modem History and Languages in the University of Oxford, D.D., 
 a learned writer, whose reputation is still current. The little boy was Henry John, the duke's 
 fifth child, bom December 20, 1770, who died at Berlin, July 3, 1795. Both the children 
 appear in the large group called " The Marlborough Family," which includes the 3rd duke, 
 Caroline, his duchess, and six children. See No. 133-, " A Sketch," &c. In the large picture 
 Lady Charlotte holds the mask with which she is terrifying her sister Lady Anne (afterwards 
 Countess of Shaftesbury, mother of the present Earl of Shaftesbury) ; Lord Henry stands 
 at his mother's knee, and seems to hesitate to share the sports of his brothers and sisters. 
 In May, I777j Reynolds's pocket-book records that Lord Henry, and Ladies Caroline and 
 Elizabeth Spencer sat to him, probably for the " Marlborough Family " ; the date agrees 
 with the ages of the two children in " The Fortune Tellers." Sir Joshua was at Blenheim 
 during August and September, 1777. He painted the Ladies Elizabeth and Caroline in 
 May, 1777, inagroup, and, in the group called "The Mask," the Ladies Anne and Charlotte 
 Spencer. The ages of the persons decide the date of the picture. The true date of this 
 picture has been a subject of discussion. Re3rnolds's ledger contains, as second payments : — 
 " Nov. 1779, Duke of Marlborough's Family, 735/. o o. Feb. 1780, Do., for Lord Henry 
 and Lady Charlotte 136/. \os. o." 
 
 There is a picture by Reynolds which, having been called " The Gipsy Fortune Teller," 
 is sometimes mistaken for this one. "The Gipsy Fortune Teller," half-length figures, is 
 at Knole; it was at the British Institution in 1813, 1823, 1843, and 1851 ; at the Royal 
 Academy in 1777, and was engraved by J. K. Shervnn. Both pictures were at the 
 Portrait Exhibition, 1867. 
 
 Two whole-length figures ; the boy in a Van Dyck dress ; his sister is telling Ms fortune. 
 
 Painted, 1777? Canvas, 55 X 44 inches. Engraved by John Jones, 1791, and 
 J. K, Sherwin. 
 
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 West Gallery. 
 
 47. 
 
 William Henry, Duke of Gloucester. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Waldegrave. 
 
 Father of Prince William Frederick, No. 53, and second husband of Maria, Countess 
 Waldegrave, No. 152. 
 
 Half length ; face turned to the right ; red coat, with the star of the Garter on the 
 breast. 
 
 Painted, 1770. Canvas, 29 X 245 inches. 
 
 48. Mother and Child, formerly called " Lady Ormond." 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Westminster^ K»G. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated ; with both arms she clasps her child ; his form supported 
 on a pedestal and leaning against his mother, while with the right hand he holds a plait of 
 her hair. This picture formerly belonged to Colonel Ellis. 
 
 " Miss Charlotte Fish," vide " The Life of Sir J. Reynolds," by Leslie and Taylor, 
 i., 202, sat to Reynolds in September, 1 761, and " Miss Fisher " (? " Kitty Fisher ") in the 
 previous August. 
 
 Three-quarters length, sitting ; necklace of one row of pearls; spotted dress, with black 
 mantilla; landscape, &c. 
 
 Painted, 1761. Canvas, 49 X 39i inches. Engraved by James Watson, 1770. 
 
 50. Lady Henrietta Antonia Herbert, Countess of Powis. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in a white dress; looking over left shoulder; spotted scarf; she 
 is pulling on a long glove over the left hand and arm ; she wears a large green hat ; land- 
 scape, with trees and water in the background. The engraving is without the hat, which 
 was added later. 
 
 Painted, 1777. Canvas, 55 X 44 inches. Engraved by Valentine Green, 1779. 
 
 Painted, 
 
 Canvas, 40J X 37 inches. 
 
 49. Charlotte Fish. 
 
 Lent by H. L. Bischoffsheim, Esq. 
 
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West Gallery. 
 
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 51. Tan-che-qua, or rather " Wang-y-Tong." 
 
 A Chinese elected an Honorary Royal Academician 
 on the foundation of the body. 
 
 Lent by H, L. Bisckoffsheim, Esq. 
 
 This appears to be the head of Wang-y-Tong, the Chinese boy, painted for the Duke 
 of Dorset, and, according to the painter's ledger, August, 1776, paid for with £']■>, \os. 
 Compare a portrait exhibited by Archdeacon Harrison, at Burlington House, 1871, No. 30. 
 The foundation R.A.was called "Tan-che-qua." The head in Zofifany's picture of the 
 R.A.s is different from this. 
 
 Half length ; three-quarters face, turned to the right ; in Chinese hat. 
 
 Painted, 1770. Canvas, 31I X 25 inches. 
 
 52. John, 3RD Earl of Bute, K.G., and Mr. Charles Jenkinson, 
 
 HIS Secretary, afterwards ist Earl of Liverpool. A 
 Study. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Wharncliffe. 
 
 The finished picture is in the Bute Collection. Compare this with No. 59, a design for 
 ■ a portrait of the earl. 
 
 Whole length, two figures standing ; to the left Lord Bute in red coat, his left hand 
 with an explanatory gesture ; to the right his secretary in dark green coat. 
 
 Painted, 1763. Canvas, 165 X I2i inches. 
 
 53. Prince William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester and 
 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Lent by Trinity College, Cambridge. \yJ,^cJX ^ ,^3;^. ^ 
 
 Whole length, as a boy, in a Van Dyck dress of lavender shot with rose, and in 
 an attitude referring to Van Dyck's mode of design; he stands bareheaded on a hillock with 
 a hat and a long stick in his right hand ; sky background of clear rich blue. Bom on January 
 iSj 1776 ; son of William Henry (third son of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales), Duke of 
 Gloucester and Edinburgh, and Maria, Countess-Dowager of Waldegrave, see Nos. 47 
 and 152. Became Field-Marshal, and, 1816, married the Princess Mary, his cousin, 
 daughter of George III., and died November 30, 1834. Reynolds painted the prince's 
 sister, Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, as a girl plajdng with a dog, a picture now the property 
 of Her Majesty. The prince's portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780 
 (No. 167), and 1879 (No. 45). It was at the British Institution in 1813. Walpole noticed 
 
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 West Gallery. 
 
 it on the former occasion as "Well, but too washy." Reynolds's ledger (according to 
 Cotton) contains : — "January, 1788, Duke of Gloucester, for Prince William. Sent home, 
 100 gs." 
 
 Painted, 1780. Canvas, 53^ X 38 J inches. Engraved by Caroline Watson, 1784. 
 
 54. George Keppel, 3RD Earl of Albemarle, K.G. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 Bom 1724, succeeded his father in the title, December, 1754, Aide-de-Camp to the 
 Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Fontenoy (see " Lord Cathcart," No. 137), w^as at 
 the Battle of Culloden, and took to London the despatches announcing that victory, 1746. 
 Commander-in-Chief at the reduction of the Havannah, 1762, K.G. ; died October, 1772. 
 His second brother was "Commodore Keppel," Nos. 44 and 181 ; his third brother was 
 " Col. Keppel," Nos. 14 and 28 ; two of his sisters vi'ere "Lady C. Keppel," No. 123, and 
 ' ' Lady E. Keppel, " No. 1 1 1 . There is another portrait of this officer by Reynolds, painted 
 1759, and engraved by E. Fisher in 1762. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in armour ; blue cloak over the left shoulder, with the Order of 
 the Garter ; right hand resting on a baton ; background, a curtain with landscape beyond. 
 
 Painted, 1765. Canvas, 495 X 39 inches. 
 
 55. Mrs. Siddons, as the " Tragic Muse." 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Westminster, K. G. 
 
 The history of this famous picture was given by Mrs. Jameson on the authority of 
 Mrs. Siddons herself. She had been called "The Tragic Muse," as Mr. Taylor told us, 
 by Mr. Russell, the author of a once well-known and still useful "History of Modem 
 Europe ; " this distinction may have suggested to Re)molds the mode of regarding the 
 subject which is illustrated in this picture. She had been confined not many weeks before 
 she began to sit in the autumn of 1783 or spring of the following year. Sir Joshua took the 
 actress by the hand, and led her to the sitter's platform in the Leicester Fields studio, where 
 stood the chair which, in strictly architectural, or rather monumental guise, appears in the 
 picture. What the chair really was may be surmised by means of Sir F. Leighton's unfinished 
 group of Lord Rockingham and Edmund Burke, see No. 197, the notice of which gives the 
 history of this memorable chair, which is now in the Royal Academy. While leading her thus, 
 Reynolds, as Mrs. Siddons related, said to her, " Ascend your undisputed throne ; bestow 
 on me some idea of the Tragic Muse." On which she added, " I walked up the steps and 
 instantly seated myself in the attitude in which the Tragic Muse now appears. So 
 thoroughly characteristic of an actress of the school of Kemble is this attitude, that the 
 
JVest Gallery. 
 
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 internal evidence of the design of tliis picture favours of the narrative of the chief performer 
 in the scene. The sequel is vi'orthy of this histrionic beginning. Sir Joshua, in the ornate 
 complimentary mode of his class and time, pretended to be at the tragediettnis feet during 
 the sitting, and, when the vifhole was done, he added, with a flourish, " I cannot resist the 
 opportunity for going down to posterity on the edge of your garment." There, accordingly, 
 he painted his name, so that it appears like embroidery extended along the front of the figure 
 below the knees, with the date, 1784, when the work was finished. Mrs. Siddons stated 
 to Mr. Phillips, R. A., that the head was originally in a different attitude, but that " while 
 Reynolds was preparing some colours she changed her position to look at a picture hanging 
 on the wall of the room. When he looked at her again, and saw the action she had 
 assumed, he requested her not to move ; and thus arose the beautiful and expressive figure 
 we now see in the picture." Mrs. Siddons averred that Reynolds said he intended to 
 work a good deal more on the face. When he told her this, on her rising from her last 
 sitting, she answered that she thought it could not be improved. On his showing her 
 the finished picture, he said he had taken this advice, and had not touched the face since 
 she last sat for it. 
 
 M. de Calonne, a renowned collector of those days, gave Sir Joshua 800 guineas for 
 the work before us, the largest price Reynolds had then received for a picture with so 
 few figures. It was sold in 1795 for 100 guineas less than that sum, to Mr. Smith 
 of Norwich, and again sold to Mr. G. Watson Taylor of I^iverpool, for 900 guineas ; 
 lastly, in 1822, Lord Grosvenor, with whose family it remains, gave 1,760 guineas for the 
 work, or more than double the original price. The version at Dulwich was, as Northcote 
 told us, painted by Score, one of Sir Joshua's assistants, and was, according to Malone, 
 
 upper portion of the figure. See below. 
 
 The head of the figure behind the "Tragic Muse" on our left is said to have been 
 painted by Sir Joshua from his own. The portrait of Mrs. Siddons's sister, Miss Fanny 
 Kemble, see No. 142, was painted very soon after' "The Tragic Muse." When the latter 
 was exhibited at the Academy in 1784 it created an immense sensation. Walpole 
 commented on it in his catalogue: — "Head very fine, left arm too large." Sir T. 
 Lawrence considered this work the finest portrait in the (English ?) world. 
 
 This is one of the few works on which Reynolds signed his name, which appears on 
 the edge of the robe. 
 
 Whole length, in the character of the Tragic Muse ; seated in a large chair ; left arm 
 raised, with the elbow resting on the aim of the chair ; a tiara on her head ; a long plait of 
 hair falls over each shoulder to the waist j strings of pearls round her neck, looped at the 
 bosom ; her foot on a stool supported by clouds ; on the hem of her dress is the name of the 
 painter and the date, 1784 ; behind the chair are emblematical figures of " Crime " and 
 " Remorse." The head of the latter is a portrait of Reynolds himself. 
 
 sold to Mr. Desenfans (whose collection is at Dulwich) for 700 guineas. Lord Normanton 
 has a replica, and in the possession of Mrs. Combe there is, or was, a replica of the 
 
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 IVest Gallery. 
 
 There are at least two other versions of this picture ; one of these belongs to Sir R. B. 
 Harvey at Langley Park. 
 
 Painted, 1784. Canvas, 93 X 57 inches. Engraved by Francis Haward, 1787, 
 S. W. Reynolds, and H. Dawe. 
 
 56. The Infant Hercules. 
 
 Lent by the Lord Northwick. 
 
 See "The Infant Hercules," No. 175. 
 
 Full-length nude figure of an infant in his cradle holding a serpent in either hand. 
 Painted, 1788. Canvas, 495 X 39 inches. 
 
 57. Miss (Hester Frances) Cholmondeley, afterwards Lady 
 
 Bellingham, " Crossing the Brook." 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Buchanan Riddell. 
 
 This young lady was the youngest daughter of Mrs. Mary Cholmondeley, sister of Peg 
 Woffington. Her picture was exhibited at Spring Gardens in 1768, and again at the 
 British Institution in 1813, as the property of G. J. Cholmondeley, Esq., and at the latter 
 place in 1858, as belonging to the Rev. J. C. B. Riddell. Her father, the Hon. Robert 
 Cholmondeley, was a clergyman, of meeting whom, with his wife and daughters, at Sir 
 Joshua's, Dec. 21, 1778, Fanny Burney gave a lively account, and effectively illustrated the 
 society which surrounded the painter. See likewise Boswell's "Life of Johnson." 
 Mr. Cholmondeley sat to Reynolds in January, 1766. The young lady married, in 1783, 
 Mr. William Bellingham, sometime secretary to William Pitt, M.P. for Reigate, created a 
 baronet in 1796. She died, childless, in 1844. 
 
 Whole length ; a little girl in a green and brovra dress carrying a dog across a brook ; 
 face turned to the left. 
 
 Painted, 1767. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. Engraved by Giuseppe Marchi. 
 
 58. General Sir William Fawcett. 
 
 Lent by W. W. Fawcett, Esq. 
 
 Three-quarters length, standing in uniform, with Ribbon and Star of the Order of the 
 Bath ; left hand in the pocket of his waistcoat ; right hand leaning on stick. 
 
 Painted, 1784. Canvas, 54 X 46 inches. Engraved by James Ward, 1801, and 
 S. W. P.eynolds. 
 
JVest Gallery. 
 
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 59. John, 3RD Earl of Bute, K.G. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Wharncliffe. 
 
 The Earl of Wharncliffe has a full-length figure of the earl, 94 X 58 in., in Garter 
 Robes, advancing, head turned to the left, holding his plumed hat ; painted soon after he, 
 in 1762, took the Garter simultaneously with Prince William Henry, afterwards Duke of 
 Gloucester, see No. 47. The full-length picture was in the National Portrait Exhibition, 
 1867. There is another in the Bute Gallery. 
 
 Sketch for a picture. See No. 52. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; standing at a window ; looking at a miniature which he holds 
 in his right hand ; red coat. 
 
 Painted, 1763. Canvas, 155 X 12 inches. 
 
 60. Lavinia, BORN Bingham, Countess Spencer, and John 
 Charles, Viscount Althorp, afterwards 3RD Earl 
 Spencer. 
 
 Sister of " Lady Anne Bingham," No. 112 ; see Nos. 118 and 124. 
 
 Whole length, in a landscape ; Lady Spencer seated, and turned to the right, holds 
 her child, who stands by her side ; white dress, with black scarf draped across the skirt ; 
 black hat ; a white dog at her feet. 
 
 Painted, 1784. Canvas, 57 X 43 inches. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi and S. Cousins. 
 
 61. George, Viscount, afterwards Marquis Townshend, born 
 1724, died 1807. 
 
 Half length, in armour ; face turned to the left ; holding a baton in the right hand ; red 
 sash over the left shoulder. 
 
 Painted, 1779' Canvas, 35 X 27 inches. 
 
 Children at play on the terrace of a palace in glowing afternoon light, with a summer 
 cloud extended athwart the pillars behind the group. This work, apart from the charm of 
 the figures, comprises one of the most poetic landscape backgrounds Reynolds painted. It 
 was selected in pursuance of Sir Joshua's bequest to the second Viscount Palmerston 
 
 Lent by the Earl Spencer, K. G. 
 
 62. The Infant Academy. 
 
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 West Gallery. 
 
 the second choice of any of his works remaining in his studio. A repetition of the 
 chief figure, called the "Mob Cap," was bought at Samuel Rogers's sale, 1856, for 
 Lady Burdett-Coutts, for 780 guineas ; it has been engraved separately by S. W. Reynolds 
 and others. " The Infant Academy " was exhibited at the British Institution in 1813, 1823, 
 1833, and 1843. I' was at the Academy in 1872. 
 
 A nude boy sitting before an easel, on which is an oval canvas ; another child sitting 
 for her portrait, nude, with the exception of a large cap and feather ; on one side of her a 
 child, with hand raised, is placing the feather in her cap ; on the other is a child wrapped 
 in a gauze veil, only her head visible ; curtains, columns, &c. 
 
 Painted, c. 1783. Canvas, 445 X SSs inches. Engraved by F. Haward, 1783, 
 S. W. Reynolds, J. Walker, and W. J. Fry. 
 
 63. Lady Katherine Powlett, afterwards Lady Darlington. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Cleveland, K. G. 
 
 Whole length, as a young girl, sitting ; her left breast, and arm on which she rests, 
 bare ; her right hand caressing a greyhound lying at her feet. On her left a rose-bush, with 
 trees in the distance ; on her right, masonry, draped with a curtain. 
 
 Painted, 1777. Canvas, 555 X 44 inches. Engraved by J. Raphael Smith, 1778. 
 
 64. Edward, Lord Thurlow. 
 
 Lent by the Marquis of Bath. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated ; in his robes as Chancellor, with the mace, &c. , on the 
 table to his right ; his hands resting on the arms of the chair. 
 
 Painted, 1781. Canvas, 55 X 433 inches. Engi-aved by F. Bartolozzi, 1788. 
 
 65. Edmund Burke. 
 
 Lent by William Maxted, Esq. 
 
 This picture was the property of Thomas Gainsborough, See No. 197. 
 
 Half length ; full face ; the left arm raised to the hip ; dark coat ; white cravat. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
 66. Girl with a Dead Dove — " Lesbia." 
 
 Lent by the Lord Houghton. 
 
 Small three-quarters length, seated ; holding a dead bird in her lap, the empty cage 
 beside her. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 12 X 10 inches. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi. 
 
IVest Gallery. 
 
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 67. Lady Anne Lennox, Countess of Albemarle. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 Daughter of the ist Duke of Richmond, K.G., and wife of William Anne Keppel, 
 and Earl of Albemarle. Mother of the Keppels, Nos. 44 and 181, and 14 ; and Lady 
 E. and Lady C. Keppel, Nos. 11 1 and 123. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated ; full face ; the hands raised tatting ; on a table to the 
 left a work-basket ; green brocaded dress ; black mantilla and hood. 
 
 Painted, 1758. Canvas, 495 X 395 inches. 
 
 68. Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, M.P. for Newcastle. 
 
 Lent by Sir Alfred Trevelyan^ Bart. TiwcA 
 
 Three-quarters length, full face ; wearing a three-cornered hat ; mulberry-coloured C9v.v>a^L^ « 
 coat ; landscape background. 
 
 Painted, 1768. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches, 
 
 69. George John, Viscount Althorp, afterwards 2nd Earl 
 
 Spencer, aged 1 7 years. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Spencer, K.G. QoM fX-'^^X^o^h ( 
 
 George John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, was bom September I, 1758, eldest son of \' 
 the 1st Earl Spencer and his wife Margaret Georgiana, Nos. 157 and 199; he manied, 
 March 6, 1 78 1, Lavinia Bingham, eldest daughter of Charles, ist Earl of Lucan, whom 
 Reynolds painted with her son, in No. 60, and, singly, in Nos. 118 and 124. Her sister 
 'was " Lady Anne Bingham," No. 112. The viscount succeeded his father as Earl Spencer 
 in 1783. His sister Georgiana, see "The Duchess of Devonshire," No. 81, married 
 Williafn, Sth Duke of Devonshire, and appears in Nos. 157 and 199. The duke's portrait 
 is No. 190. 
 
 Earl Spencer become Lord Privy Seal in 1794; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1794 
 to 1801, a period comprising the victories of Cape St. Vincent, Camperdown, and the 
 Nile; Home Secretary in the administration of " All the Talents," 1806 ; K.G. in 1829 ; 
 died November 10, 1834. He formed the Library at Althorp, and was one of the most 
 eminent bibliopoles ; first President of the Roxburghe Club. 
 
 This picture was at Manchester in 1857, and in 1879 at South Kensington, with other 
 works lent by Earl Spencer. 
 
 Whole length, in a landscape ; left elbow resting on a stone parapet ; right hand 
 holding a book ; black Van Dyck dress ; red curtain draped above. 
 
 Painted, 1776. Canvas, 94 X 58 inches. Engraved by C. Townley, 1800, and 
 J. H. Robinson, 1822. 
 
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 West Gallery. 
 
 70, Miranda. The proper title of this picture is " Ariadne." 
 
 Lent by Thomas Evans, Esq. 
 
 The Hon. Mrs. Tollemaclie as " Miranda " in The Tempest, one of Reynolds's master- 
 pieces, remains at Peckforton, the lady's home of one hundred and ten years ago. It must 
 not be confounded with this picture, being a whole length, and, as such, admirably 
 engraved by J. Jones. It was at the Academy in 1774, with the "Baretti," see No. 73, 
 "Lady Cockburn and her Children," better known as "Cornelia," and the half-allegory 
 of Dr. Beattie, which is known as "The Triumph of Truth." The larger "Miranda" 
 was among the Manchester Art-Treasures of 1857. 
 
 Mr. Lock paid Reynolds 35 guineas for " Ariadne," in 1781. 
 
 Half length, three-quarters face, turned to the left. 
 
 Painted, 1778. Canvas, 28^ X 23J inches. Engraved by G. Doughty, 1779. 
 
 71. Jane Hamilton, Lady Cathcart, and her daughter Jane, 
 
 AFTERWARDS DuCHESS OF AtHOL'E. 
 
 Eent by the Earl Cathcart. 
 
 This picture, which was painted within a year or two of Reynolds's settling in London, 
 after his return from Italy in 1752, is very interesting on account of its technique, and shows 
 distinctly the influence of Italian art on his style and taste, there being a marked difference 
 between it and those works of somewhat Jater date, which illustrate the fact that the artist 
 had adopted a much swifter mode of delineation than obtains in this exceptionally 
 solid, bright, and careful example. The "classical "style of the composition of the 
 two figures is noteworthy. Under the engraved margin of the print by Houston and 
 McArdell, the inscription states that the portraits are those of "Jane Lady Cathcart, 
 Daughter of the late Lord Archibald Hamilton, and their Second Son Allan Cathcart." It 
 appears that this is a mistake, and that the child was Jane, afterwards Duchess of Athole, 
 born May, 1754, married in 1774 to John, 4th Duke of Athole ; she died Dec. 4, 1790, 
 in her thirty-seventh year. The following extracts from Lady Cathcart's book of accounts 
 establishes this fact : — 
 
 " 25 Ap' 1754 Paid Mr Reynolds for my Lord's picture, ;^3I , o , o," (see No. 137), 
 "Dec. 22, 1755, Paid Mr. Reynolds for Portrait Lady C. and the little girl, £y] ,, 16. o." 
 
 This picture was in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. It is signed "J. R. I7SS-" 
 
 Mary, the second daughter of Lady Cathcart, married, in 1774, the gallant Sir 
 Thomas Graham, who distinguished himself at Barossa during the Peninsular War. She 
 died in 1792, childless. Inconsolable for the loss of his beautiful wife, the bereaved soldier 
 caused her portrait by Gainsborough, one of his masterpieces, which is known as 
 that of "Mrs. Graham," to be shut up with a smaller one ; he never looked at them again. 
 
West Gallery. 
 
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 He thenceforth devoted himself to his military duties without stint of danger or daring. 
 Scott alluded to his grief in the " Vision of Don Roderick." Sir Thomas was created 
 Lord L3Tiedoch, and died in 1843. His heir gave the picture to the National Gallery of 
 Scotland after it had been forgotten nearly fifty years. It was exhibited in 1848 at the 
 British Institution ; with the Manchester Art-Treasures in 1857. The smaller version was 
 in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. A life-size, whole-length figure, mostly laid 
 in with brown, of this lady, as a peasant, holding a long broom and standing at the door of 
 a cottage, left unfinished by Gainsborough, is at Castle Howard. The third daughter, 
 Louisa, Countess of Mansfield in her own right, married David, Earl of Mansfield, her first 
 husband ; secondly she married the Hon. R. Fulke-Greville. Romney painted one of his best 
 pictures from the Countess Louisa seated beneath a tree ; it was in the National 
 Portrait Exhibition, 1868; and is now at Thornton-le-Street ; it is well known by means of 
 a mezzotint engraving by J. R. Smith. It thus happened that the three daughters of Lord 
 and Lady Cathcart were painted severally by Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney, and 
 that two of the three works are masterpieces. Bums celebrated the beauty and sweetness 
 of the Hon. Mrs. Graham. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated, with a child sitting in her lap ; her left hand supports 
 the left arm of the infant, who holds in her right hand a baby's cap. Dark blue dress, with 
 transparent veil over her head ; to the right a greyhound. 
 
 There is an oval print by Bartolozzi, from a marble profile by Ann Callot, of Lady 
 Cathcart. 
 
 Painted, I7SS- Canvas, 48^ X 385- inches. Engraved by R. Houston. 
 
 72. Henry, Earl of Sussex. 
 
 Lent by the Lord Donington. 
 
 This portrait represents Henry Yelverton, 3rd Earl of Sussex of that creation, who 
 was bom in 1729, sat to Reynolds in 1759, and died in 1799, when the earldom became 
 extinct. Sir Joshua's pocket-book contains a memorandum which throws light on the 
 mode in which the business part of his work was conducted. This note, dated December 
 in the above-named year, states " Lord Sussex to be finished in three weeks." This peer 
 had then just succeeded to the title on the death of his brother, George Augustus Yelverton, 
 2nd Earl, Lord of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and afterwards to the 
 King. He was one of the English hostages for the due performance of the Treaty of Aix-la- 
 Chapelle, 1748; see "Charles, 9th Lord Cathcart," No. 137. 
 
 "Lord Sussex and Lord Cathcart are gone on their hostage employment, excessively 
 happy with it, though I do not find they have more than 1000/. each to bear their charges. 
 I wonder therefore they should be so eager for it, it being at their own pressing request 
 they were sent." — Lady Betty Germaine to Lady Suffolk, Nov. 18, 1748. 
 
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 West Gallery. 
 
 This picture was in hand about eighteen months. The number of sittings required by 
 Reynolds varied considerably even in respect to portraits of the same cliaracter. Cun- 
 ningham stated that Sir Joshua valued his time at about five guineas an hour; on this 
 Cotton reckoned that in the height of his reputation he painted a portrait in four hours, 
 which, even admitting the utmost for the help of assistants, is absurd. "This he might 
 sometimes do," added Cotton, "but I believe Sir Joshua generally had six or eight 
 sittings of an hour each. Mr. Charles Rogers sat eight times to Sir Joshua for the portrait 
 in my possession, and always at five o'clock in the afternoon. " Reynolds often had five 
 or six sitters in one day. 
 
 Three-quarters length, looking to the left, in peer's robes, his right hand resting on 
 a table. 
 
 Painted, 1759. Canvas, 495 X 39 inches. 
 
 Giuseppe Baretti, author of an Italian and English Dictionary, &c. Foreign Secretary 
 to the Royal Academy. A friend of Johnson, Reynolds, Garrick, &c. This picture was 
 painted for Mr. Thrale's collection of the portraits of his friends. Mrs. Thrale, in her verses 
 on these Streatham portraits, has the following on this picture : — 
 
 " Baretti hangs next, by his frowns you may know him. 
 
 He has lately been reading some new published poem ; 
 
 He finds the poor author a blockhead, a beast, 
 
 A fool without sentiment, judgement, or taste. 
 
 Ever thus let our critic his insolence fling, 
 
 Like the hornet in Homer, impatient to sting. 
 
 Let him rally his friends for their frailties before 'em. 
 
 And scorn the dull praise of that dull king decorum : 
 
 While tenderness, temper, and truth he despises, 
 
 And only the triumph of victory prizes. 
 
 Yet let us be candid, and where shall we find 
 
 So active, so able, so ardent a mind ? 
 
 To your children more soft, more polite to your servant, 
 
 More firm in distress, or in friendship more fervent." 
 
 The Thrale pictures were sold by auction in May, 1816, and, according to Mrs. Piozzi's 
 marked catalogue, Baretti's portrait was bought for ^31 los. by "Stewart Esq''., I know 
 not who." Cotton said it fetched 82 guineas. It afterwards became the property of Mr. 
 
 73. Joseph Baretti. 
 
 Holland. 
 
 See Autobiography, &^<r. of Mrs. Piozzi, ed. Hayward, 
 
 1861, Vol. a., p. 16. 
 
JVest Gallery. 
 
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 G. Watson Taylor, at whose sale in 1832 it was purchased, according to Cotton, for 100 
 guineas, by Francis, Marquis of Hertford, and presented by him to the late Lord Holland. 
 
 Baretti having in the Haymarket, October, 1769, in self-defence and misapprehension, 
 fatally stabbed a man, was tried for murder, and acquitted. Reynolds, Burke, Garrick, 
 Johnson, Goldsmith, and Topham Beauclerk were strenuous witnesses in his favour. John- 
 son's evidence illustrates the purblind character of the face of this portrait. To the question, 
 " How is he as to eyesight ? " the reply was, " He does not see me now, nor do I see him. 
 I do not believe he would be capable of assaulting anybody in the street, without great pro- 
 vocation. " Reynolds, Garrick, and Burke were Baretti's bail on this occasion. When Johnson 
 and Burke went to condole with Baretti during his incarceration in the Old Bailey, they 
 had small comfort to give him, and bid him not hope too strongly. "Why, what can he 
 fear," says Baretti, placing himself between them, " that holds two such hands as I do ? " 
 See Mrs. Piozzi's "Autobiography," ii., 348. 
 
 This example was in the British Institution in 1813 and 1843; in the National Portrait 
 Exhibition, 1867, and at the Academy in 1871. 
 
 Half length, sitting in his chair reading, with a book held close to the face ; three- 
 quarters face turned to the right ; brown coat. 
 
 Painted, 1774. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by J. Watts, 1780, and J. Hardy. 
 
 74. Lady Caroline Fox, afterwards Lady Holland. 
 
 Lent by the Lady Holland. 
 
 Mother of Charles James Fox. 
 
 Half length, seated, full face ; working a piece of embroidery ; a lace cap upon the 
 head ; white and green dress ; two roses in her bosom. 
 
 Painted, 1758. Canvas, 35 J X 28 inches. 
 
 75. The Hon. Miss Frances Harris, afterwards Lady (Frances) 
 
 Cole, with a Dog. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Darnley. 
 
 The portrait of Lady (Frances) Cole is known by many names, including that above, 
 which is proper to it, e.g., " Miss Frances Harris," "Fanny and her Friend," and "Girl 
 and Dog." She was the second daughter of Sir James Harris, Secretary and Comptroller 
 to Queen Charlotte, better known by his title of Earl of Malmesbury (1800). Her mother 
 was related to the Cornewall family, see "Catherine, Lady Cornewall," No. 103, being 
 the youngest daughter of Sir George Amyand, Bart. The Hon. Miss Harris married the 
 Hon. Lieutenant-General Sir Lowry Cole, a distinguished soldier, Governor of the 
 
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 IVest Gallery. 
 
 Mauritius and the Cape, one of the Enniskillen family. She died in 1842, one of the last 
 survivors of Reynolds's sitters. The picture was painted for the fourth Earl of Darnley, 
 who, in May, 1789, paid one hundred guineas for it ; in that month, as Reynolds's pocket- 
 book attests, the child sat for the portrait, which, some have said, is the last of Reynolds's 
 works. It is one of the most charming and popular of the children's portraits this best of 
 painters of children produced. It certainly was not the last of Reynolds's pictures, yet so 
 nearly such that it may be the last work which, in a finished state, left his hands. "Lady 
 Frances Cole" was included in the "Art-Treasures" of Manchester, 1857, No. 63. See 
 " Archseologia Cantiana," vol. ix., "On the Pictures at Cobham Hall." Bromley 
 described it as Reynolds's last picture. That distinction has been claimed for the portrait 
 of "the famous Mr. Tomkins" which was exhibited at the British Institution in 1813, 
 and is now here, see No. 1 14. He was the cleverest calligrapher of the day, renowned for pen 
 flourishes and magnificent penmanship, headings of official addresses, intricate mazes of ink. 
 
 A dog was frequently introduced by Reynolds in his portraits, see " Emilia Van- 
 sittart," No. 25 ; "Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch," No. 41; and "Portrait of Miss 
 Lister," No. 91. " Miss Harris's dog" sat to Reynolds in May, 1789. 
 
 This picture was at the Royal Academy in 1876, 
 
 Whole length, a girl in a white dress over a green skirt ; her right hand resting on the 
 head of a dog ; landscape background. 
 
 Painted, 1789. Canvas, 55I X 44 inches. Engraved by J. Grozer, 1791. 
 
 76. Lord Porchester, i.e. Master Henry George Herbert, 
 
 AFTERWARDS EaRL OF CARNARVON, AS AN InFANT BaCCHUS, 
 
 WITH Lions. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Carnarvon. 
 
 Painted, 1776. Canvas, 49 X 392 inches. Engraved by J. R. Smith, 1776. 
 
 77, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, afterwards Duchess of Buc- 
 
 cleuch. Date, 1755. Signed " J. R." 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G. 
 
 Mother of the Earl of Dalkeith, No. 132. 
 
 Half length ; ribbon round her neck ; an ornament of three pearls at her bosom ; a 
 scarf over her right shoulder and over left forearm ; her right hand over her left. 
 
 Painted, 1755. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by J. McArdell,. 1756. 
 
PVest Gallery. 
 
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 78. The Calling of Samuel. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Darnley. 
 
 Half-length figure, nearly in profile, in a brown dress, looking up, with one hand raised 
 as if the child's attention had been suddenly awakened by a voice from above ; the other arm 
 is placed across the body. This design is known by many repetitions in nearly all modes of art. 
 It has reappeared in almost every possible form, even on jam pots. Sir Joshua's account-book 
 tells us that in August, 1766, he had fifty guineas from the Duke of Dorset for the " Samuel " 
 which is now at Knole. The example before us cost the 4th Lord Darnley a much larger 
 sum, for the same book states that in June, 1791, he paid ^78 15J. for "a Samuel." The 
 Marquis of Granby paid Reynolds 100 guineas for " Samuel." There are other versions of 
 the subject, differing in design, in the National Gallery, and Dulwich Gallery (engraved by 
 J. Dean). An " Infant Samuel " belonging to Sir Charles Long, was at the British Institu- 
 tion in 1813 and 1823 ; a " Calling of Samuel " was at the same place in 1817. A picture, 
 since named "The Calling of Samuel," was at the Royal Academy, entitled "Daniel." 
 Mr. Chamier (see No. 40) paid Reynolds fifty guineas " for a Samuel sent to France, " Feb. 3, 
 1778. See also No. 204. 
 
 Half length, turned to the left, with right hand raised to heaven ; brown cloak. 
 Painted, c. 1782. Canvas, 35 X 27 inches. Engraved by J. R. Smith. 
 
 79. Miss Jacobs, or Jacob. 
 
 Lent by the Marquis of Hertford. ^^rr^^ ^ 
 
 Boydell's catalogue of his prints, including Spilsbury's plate from this picture, calls it 
 "A Lady unknown." Supposed to have been a singer. Portrait known as "The Blue 
 Lady." At the Academy in 1872. 
 
 Three-quarters length, blue dress, sitting in a chair ; face nearly in profile, looking to 
 her left ; hair turned up with pearls ; a single row of pearls as a necklace ; bouquet of 
 flowers in her lap. 
 
 Painted, 1761. Canvas, 36 X 27i inches. Engraved by J. Spilsbury, 1762, and 
 R. Houston. 
 
 80. Mr. R. L. Gwatkin, who married "Offie" Palmer, niece 
 of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Gwatkin^ 
 
 Painted, 1781. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
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 IVest Gallery. 
 
 81. Georgiana, born Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, and her 
 
 Child, Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish, afterwards Countess 
 of Carlisle. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; sitting on a sofa playing with and singing to her daughter ; the 
 child with both arms raised ; the Duchess with right 'arm and hand raised ; a vase to the 
 right ; a curtain to the left. This picture was in the International Exhibition, 1862, and 
 in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. 
 
 Painted, 1786. Canvas, 43I X 56 inches. Engraved by G. Keating, 1789, and others. 
 
 82. The Lady Jane Lindsay, Countess of Eglinton. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. 
 
 The lady is supposed to have been poisoned by a servant whose peculations she had 
 discovered. The picture was at the British Institution in 1865. 
 
 Whole length, seated, playing on a harp ; amber dress, with dark blue robe ; at her 
 feet a book of music ; landscape background beyond. 
 
 Painted, 1777. Canvas, 78 X 58 inches. 
 
 83. Frances, Countess of Essex. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Essex. 
 
 Daughter of Sir C . Hanbury Williams, and first wife of William, 4th Earl of Essex. 
 Half length, full face ; white cloak trimmed with fur ; head resting on her left hand ; 
 red bodice. At the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. 
 
 Painted, 1755. Canvas, 35 X 285 inches. Engraved by J. McArdell, and R. Purcell. 
 
 84. " Offie " Palmer, Mrs. R. L. Gwatkin, niece of Sir Joshua 
 
 Reynolds. Painted after her marriage to Mr. Gwatkin in 
 1781. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Gwatkin. 
 
 There is another portrait of the same " OfSe" underneath, over which this one was 
 painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds for presentation. 
 
 Half length, face turned to the left, looking down ; black mantilla over a white dress. 
 
 Painted, 1781. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
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West Gallery. 
 
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 R.A., Engraver. , 
 Lent by the Earl of Mor ley. \\^<Uxm^ ^M^fJi^'riK^ ^ 
 
 85. Portrait of Francis Bartolozzi, R.A., Engraver. 
 
 Lent by the Earl c 
 
 Half length, in a coat trimmed with fur ; looking to the left, with left hand over right 
 
 arm. 
 
 Painted, 1 77 1. Canvas, 29f X 24I inches. Engraved by T. Watson, 1783. 
 
 86. The Strawberry Girl. 
 
 Lent by Colonel Copley Wray. 
 
 Bequeathed by Lady G. Gordon to Major C. Wray. Sir R. Wallace and the Marquis 
 of Lansdowne have original version of this subject. The former was bought at the 
 Rogers sale, 1856, for 2,100 guineas. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; a little girl ; handkerchief round her head, with the border 
 over her forehead ; bow fastening dress in front ; hands crossed at waist ; from right arm 
 hangs a strawberry-basket ; rocky landscape. 
 
 Painted, 1773. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by T. Watson and R. Marcuard. 
 
 87. John Charles, Viscount Althorp, aged 4 years. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Spencer^ K.G. At' Al4iN<ry|', OjS5^ 
 
 Whole length, in a landscape ; white suit with frilled collar open at the throat ; 
 black hat ; blue sash ; his left hand in the sash. 
 
 Painted, 1786. Canvas, 55 X 435 inches. Engraved by G. Kellaway, and L. Fry. 
 
 88. Venus chiding Cupid for learning to cast Accounts. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Northbrook. 
 
 Venus lying on a cloud, with an arrow in her right hand ; Cupid stands before her, 
 with his left hand and arm to his face ; in his right hand is a scroll with letters and figures. 
 Painted, 1771. Canvas, 50 X 40 inches. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, 1784. 
 
 89. Mrs. Morris, born Henrietta Musgrave of Eden Hall, 
 
 WIFE OF Mr., afterwards Sir John Morris, Bart. 
 
 Lent by W. B. Beaumont, Esq. 
 
 This picture was at the Academy in 1875. The price was thirty-five guineas. 
 
 Half-length, sitting ; head-dress of two feathers ; resting on her left elbow ; hand up to 
 her face ; dress trimmed with ermine ; the hand and arm throw a shadow on the neck and 
 throat. Reynolds painted Charlotte, one of this lady's sisters. 
 
 Painted, 1775. Canvas, 29^ x 24I inches. Engraved by J. R. Smith, 1776. 
 
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 JVest Gallery. 
 
 go. The Studious Boy, sometimes called "The" Contemplative 
 Boy." 
 
 Lent by Joseph Sidebotkam, Esq. 
 
 This picture, until 1827, belonged to the late Lord de Tabley. This is not the picture 
 engraved by J. Dean and J. R. Smith. 
 
 Half length, seated, and turned to the left ; face in profile and bent over a book 
 which he holds on his knees ; to the left a vi'indow with a view of a landscape background. 
 
 Painted, 1784? Panel, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
 gi. Miss Beatrix Lister, sister of the ist Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
 Lent by the Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
 Miss Lister is described as the ' ' Sister to Lord Ribblesdale " in the catalogue of the 
 British Institution, 181 7, when this picture was exhibited by T. L. Parker, Esq. The 
 Lord Ribblesdale of 1 817 was the first possessor of the title, his sister Beatrix married 
 Thomas Parker of Browsholme, Esq. See " Master Thomas Lister," No. 20. 
 
 Half length ; seated with a dog in her lap. Dark blue dress with slashed sleeves ; a 
 row of pearls round the neck. 
 
 Painted, 1765. Canvas, 31 X 25 inches. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 g2. Felina. Lent by the Earl of Feversham^ 
 
 A similar picture, from the Thomond Collection, belongs to Lord Normanton. 
 Whole length of a girl, kneeling ; in her arms is a half-grown cat, squeezed tight to 
 her chest ; full face, her eyes on the cat ; landscape and rocks. 
 
 Painted, 1787. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by J. Collyer, 1790. 
 
 g3. Richard Burke. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Spencer, K. G. 
 
 To R. Burke, junior, Sir Joshua bequeathed his miniature of the Protector Oliver, by 
 Cooper, one of the testator's greatest treasures, which he had picked up "a bargain." 
 R. Burke was a member of the Literary Club. See " Anthony Chamier," No. 40. 
 
 Bust, head turned to the left ; red coat. 
 
 Painted, 1782. Canvas, 24 X 20 inches. Engraved by J. Ward, 1795. 
 
 g4. Edwin, from Beattie's " Minstrel." 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Leeds. 
 
 Reynolds had fifty-five guineas for this picture. 
 
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IVest Gallery. 
 
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 Half length ; a boy in a loose dress, hair over forehead ; the right side of forehead, 
 cheek, and half the nose, in strong light ; shadow over both eyes ; neck in shadow. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 23J X iQs inches. Engraved by C. H. Hodges. 
 
 95. Portrait of Miss Ridge, daughter of Counsellor Ridge. 
 
 Lent by Frederick Hawortk, Esq. 
 
 Goldsmith wrote in " Retaliation " : — 
 
 "full certain I am 
 
 That Ridge is anchovy, and Reynolds is lamb." 
 Bust, full face, with a blue dress cut low on the neck. See No. 116. 
 Painted, 1773. Canvas, 182 X iSi inches. 
 
 96. Charles William Henry Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, 4Th 
 
 Duke of Buccleuch. 
 
 Lent by the Lady Marian Alford. 
 
 Sketch for the larger picture — see No. 132. 
 Painted, 1778. Canvas, ^\ X 6j inches. 
 
 97. Dr. Johnson. 
 
 Lent by Charles Morrison, Esq. ^ p 
 
 This picture, which has been painted on, was given by Reynolds to Boswell. 
 
 Three-quarters length, sitting in an armchair covered with a checkered stuff ; a pen in 
 his right hand ; a table before him, his left hand on a paper. On the table an inkstand 
 and a volume of his Dictionary. It was at the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. 
 
 Painted, 1756. Canvas, 48J X 39 inches. Engraved by J. Heath, 1791, and T. 
 Baker. Another with no name. 
 
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 98. The Hon. Mrs. Seymour Damer. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Portarlington. 
 
 The distinguished and able amateur sculptor, daughter of Field -Marshal Henry 
 Seymour-Conway, brother of the 1st Marquis of Hertford, born 1748, died May 28, 1828. \ 'V^^Ot C<5tl< IS" I U \kx\ 
 
 This lady was a pupil of Ceracchi and the elder Bacon, a frequent exhibitor of L I *^ ✓ 
 
 sculptures at the Academy from 1785 to 1818. Among other works of hers are the statue K'^'^-'-^ \ Vit^,'^yve*>s^ , 
 of herself in the hall of the British Museum, the heads on the bridge at Henley, and 
 
4^ IVest Gallery. 
 
 various busts. She was buried at Sundridge at her own desire, with her sculptor's tools 
 and apron and the ashes of a favourite dog in her coffin. Horace Walpole, her cousin, 
 left her Strawberry Hill, where she resided till 1810, with £z,ooo a year for its main- 
 tenance. Much of her correspondence with him and other papers, which she intended to 
 publish, were, by her order, destroyed. She is very often mentioned in Walpole 's "Letters." 
 
 A head of her, by Reynolds, with long plaits of hair falling down her neck, the 
 property of Mr. J. H. Anderdon, was in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. 
 
 Three-quarters length, standing ; hands together ; round the neck a black ribbon, 
 to which is attached a locket ; a long plait of hair falls over each shoulder ; a landscape 
 background. 
 
 Painted, 1771, Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. Engraved by J. R. Smith, 1774. 
 
 99. Alexander, the ioth Duke of Hamilton and ^th Duke of 
 sJ,, C^or.tfttA \^ \ Brandon, K.G. and F.R.S 
 
 .... 1/ T.^'. 
 
 «o ^ f' Lent by the Duke of Hamilton , K. T. 
 
 This peer married, April 26, 1810, Susan Euphemia, second daughter and co-heir of 
 William Beckford, Esq., of Fonthill, see No. 186. By this alliance much of the estate and 
 many works of art, including this picture, passed to the family of the present ovraer. The 
 Duke of Hamilton died August 18, 1852. 
 
 Bust ; three-quarters face, looking to the right ; long hair falling on his shoulders ; 
 crimson velvet coat and vest ; white frilled shirt open at the neck. 
 
 Painted, 1782. Canvas, 26 X 20 j inches. 
 
 100. Mrs. Robinson — " Perdita." A Study. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Granville, K.G. 
 
 Bust in profile, turned to the left ; the eyes bent down ; narrow band of black ribbon 
 round the neck ; white dress. 
 
 The Marquis of Hertford lent his finished picture of "Mrs. Robinson" to the 
 Academy, in 1872. 
 
 Painted, 1781. Canvas, 23J X 18^ inches. Engraved by J. Dickinson and C. H. 
 Hodges. 
 
 101. Sir Francis Blake-DelTval, K.B. 
 
 Lent by Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford. 
 
 Son of Francis Blake-Delaval, Esq., of Seaton-Delaval, and father of John Hussey- 
 Delaval, No. 196, who was created a Baronet in 1761 and a Baron in 1783. The subject 
 of this portrait was M.P. for Andover ; an energetic politician on the side of the court, and 
 
Pf^esf Gallery. 
 
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 an active patron of the drama, well known in society ; he married Isabella, fifth daughter 
 of Thomas, Earl of Thanet, and died in 1771. His daughter married the Earl of Mex- 
 borough, see No. 113. His sister was "Lady Stanhope," No. 125. 
 
 Whole length, in uniform ; wearing a hat ; holding a musket in his right hand ; a 
 battle going on in the distance to the left. 
 
 Painted, 1758. Canvas, 88j X 5^2 inches. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated in a chair covered with crimson velvet. His right hand 
 resting upon a table strewn with papers ; his left hand upon the arm of the chair ; blue 
 coat ; flowered white waistcoat ; red velvet curtain draped behind the head. Exhibited at 
 the British Institution, 1823 and 1854. 
 
 Painted, 1766. Canvas, 49 X 39J inches. Engraved by T. Watson, 1777. 
 
 103. Catherine, Lady Cornewall, 
 
 Lent by Miss Alice Ditff Gordon. 
 
 Catherine, Lady Cornewall, was only daughter and heiress of Velters Cornewall, Esq., 
 of Moccas Court, Herefordshire. She was born in 1752, and died in 1835 ; she married, 
 in I77i> Sir George Amyand, Bart., who took her name. He was M.P. for Hereford, and 
 a well-known politician. This picture was left in a somewhat unfinished state in Sir 
 Joshua Reynolds's studio ; another, which was considered a better likeness, was 
 subsequently painted and approved. The present portrait was bought by Mr. Annesley, a 
 relation of the Cornewall family, and subsequently left to Caroline, Lady Duff-Gordon, Sir 
 George and Lady Cornewall's youngest daughter. Sir George died in 1819. Harriet, 
 a daughter of this pair, married the Right Hon. Thomas Frankland-Lewis, of Harpton 
 Court, Radnorshire. According to Reynolds's ledger, ;^73 loj-. was paid for "Lady 
 Cornwall," in June, 1786. See " The Hon. Miss Frances Harris," No. 75. 
 
 This picture was at the Royal Academy in 1883, No. 210. Another portrait, in a 
 white dress, of the same lady, was No. 218 in the same collection, likewise by Reynolds. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated. Head turned to the left, resting upon her hand ; red 
 robe over white bodice and skirt. Her right arm leans upon a table ; landscape 
 background. 
 
 102. Warren Hastings. 
 
 Painted, c. 1 786. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. 
 
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 West Gallery. 
 
 104. Lady Amelia Spencer, daughter of the Duke of 
 Marlborough. A study for the " Marlborough Family 
 Picture " at Blenheim, or rather a sketch of the head in the 
 " Age of Innocence " in the National Gallery.* 
 
 Lent by Louis Hutk, Esq. 
 
 See "Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer," No. 46. 
 Child's head, in profile, turned to the right. 
 
 Painted, 1787. Canvas, 13^ X 11 inches. 
 
 105. Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. 
 
 Lent by the Dilettanti Society. 
 
 This portrait was presented to the Dilettanti Society by Reynolds when he was elected 
 a member. See "A Group of Portraits," &c., Nos. 21 and 32. 
 
 Half length, three-quarters face, a loose cloak thrown over his shoulders, a volume in 
 his right hand. 
 
 Painted, 1770. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by J. Watson, 1770. 
 
 106. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Gwatkin. 
 
 Northcote wrote, in his "Life of Reynolds," 1819, ii., 245 : — "Of the many portraits of 
 Sir Joshua himself, by his own hand, the last which he painted was executed this year 
 (1788); it is a three-quarters length, with spectacles, representing him familiarly, as in 
 common domestic life. Of this picture there are several duplicates ; one in the possession 
 of the Duke of Leeds (see No. 3) ; but his niece, the Marchioness of Thomond, possesses 
 the original." This is the picture now before us, which passed by inheritance to the present 
 owner. Northcote erred about the spectacles, and as to the size of the "last " portrait. The 
 spectacles themselves are now in a case in the West Room, with other relics of Reynolds. 
 
 Malone relates a laughable account of the use to which a portrait of Sir Joshua was 
 put : — "The tricks which are often practised with engraved copper-plates are well known. 
 At the time the person so justly execrated, and branded with the name of The Monster, 
 made much noise, the dealers in articles of this kind were very desirous of some representa- 
 tion of him ; but not being able suddenly to procure one, they made an old plate, which had 
 
 * Lady Amelia Sophia and her brother. Lord Francis Almeric Spencer, were not bom when the 
 " Marlborough Family Picture " was painted. 
 
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 been engraved for a magazine, and with the aid of the name subjoined, was intended for the 
 portrait of our author, serve their purpose. As the print had no resemblance to Sir J. Rey- 
 nolds, and had indeed a most formidable appearance, by striking out the original inscription, 
 and substituting ^The Monster,^ it did very well." 
 
 Said to be the last he painted of himself. See No. 2. 
 
 This picture was at the British Institution in 1823, among the Art-Treasures at 
 Manchester, 1857, and at Leeds in 1868. 
 
 Half length, nearly full face ; dark brown coat, with high collar. 
 
 Painted, 1788. Canvas, 29^ X 24I inches. Engraved by Caroline Kirkley. 
 
 107. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Brownlow. 
 
 See No. 106, and No, 5) the portrait lent by the Royal Academy. 
 
 It is known that Reynolds painted not fewer than eighteen portraits of himself. 
 Probably he executed a still greater number. See the first of the series, lent to this 
 exhibition by Mrs. Gwatkin, No. 2. One of the earliest is now in the National 
 Portrait Gallery, painted when he was about seventeen years of age, and in the act of 
 shading his eyes with his left hand while holding a palette by a handle in his right ; 
 this, picture was produced before Reynolds went to Italy, and in its style it approaches the 
 earlier portraits belonging to the Earl of Morley. One of the latest of these portraits of 
 himself is that of the grizzled and spectacled man now in the Dulwich Gallery. See 
 the example lent by H. N. Pym, Esq., No. 4, and the second portrait lent by Mrs, 
 Gwatkin, No. 106, which is said to be the latest he painted of himself. There are several 
 portraits of the type here represented ; the present instance is supposed to be an old copy, 
 with variations, from one of them. See the example lent by the Dilettanti Society, No, 
 105, and that belonging to the Duke of Leeds, No. 3. 
 
 Half length, in spectacles. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 295 X 24I inches. 
 
EAST GALLERY, 
 
 1 08. General Hanger, afterwards Lord Coleraine. 
 
 Lent by William Agnew, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Bust : face turned to the right ; dark coat ; white cravat. 
 Painted, 1771. Canvas, 29 X 245 inches. 
 
 109. Lady in a Black Hat. 
 
 Lent by m * * 
 
 Bust, unfinished ; head turned to the right. 
 Painted, . Canvas, 23 X 172 inches, 
 
 110. Kitty Fisher, as " Danae," from Caleb Whitefoord's 
 Collection. A Sketch. 
 
 Lent by J. C. Robinson, Esq. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated ; looking to the right. 
 Painted, 1 76 1. Canvas, 17 J X 2I5 inches. 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 III. Lady Elizabeth Keppel, afterwards Marchioness of 
 Tavistock. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 This lady was the youngest of the three daughters of WilHam Anne, 2nd Earl of 
 Albemarle, and "Lady Anne Lennox," No. 67. "Lady C. Keppel," No. 123, was 
 her sister; two of her brothers were "Cominodore Keppel," Nos. 44 and 181, and 
 "Col. Keppel," Nos. 14 and 28. She married, in 1 764, Francis Russell, Marquis of 
 Tavistock, see No. 151, who was killed by a fall from his horse while hunting, March 22, 
 1767 ; she is said to have died of grief following that event. She sat to Reynolds in 1761 
 as one of the queen's bridesmaids, adorning a Term of Hymen with flowers, a whole-length 
 picture which was exhibited in 1762. She sat for the present work in April, 1759, when 
 her brothers and Lady Caroline, as above, likewise sat. This picture was exhibited 
 in 1760. 
 
 Half-length ; seated ; turned to the right ; white dress, with a rose in her bosom ; 
 pearl necklace and earrings. 
 
 Painted, 1759. Canvas, 29 X 244 inches. Engraved by E. Fisher. 
 
 112. Lady Anne Bingham, when Miss Anne Bingham, daughter of 
 
 the I St Lord Lucan. . a^i 
 
 Lent by the Earl Spencer, K.G. nf^fvim.^ ■'^^33. 
 
 Sister of "Lavinia, Countess Spencer," No. 60. 
 
 Half length, sitting ; in a large straw hat, which shades the upper part of her face ; 
 hair over shoulder ; her dress fastened with three buttons on each side ; a black band round 
 her waist clasped by a buckle ; long gloves. 
 
 Painted, 1786. Canvas, 293 X 24J inches. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, S. Cousins, 
 and P. Bonato. 
 
 113. The Countess of Mexborough (when Lady Pollington) and 
 HER Son. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Mexborough. 
 
 This lady was Sarah, daughter of Francis Blake-Delaval, Esq. (afterwards Baron 
 Delaval, see No. loi), and sister of John, Lord Delaval, and "Lady Stanhope," No. 125. 
 She married John (Savile), the 1st Earl of Mexborough, Jan. 30, 1760, better known as 
 Baron and Viscount Pollington, who died Feb. 27, 1778, and was succeeded by the little 
 boy, John, 2nd Earl of Mexborough, who was bom in April, 1761, and died June 7) 182 1. 
 Lord and Lady Pollington sat to Sir Joshua in November, 1761. 
 
East Gallery. 
 
 It is said that when Reynolds began to paint this picture, he tried the effect of setting 
 on her head the lady's coronet, but, being dissatisfied with the effect of that arrangement, 
 he placed the ornament in her hand. It was shown to the little boy, and he was offered a 
 choice of the crown and an apple. He preferred the former, and within a year inherited 
 it on the death of his father. There appears to be an error in the date of this anecdote. 
 
 Full length, in coronation robes, turned to the right ; in her left hand she holds an 
 apple, in her right her coronet, which the child by her side grasps with his right hand. 
 Painted, 1762. Canvas, 93 X 57 inches. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Tomkins. 
 
 Lent by the Corporation of the City of London. 
 
 A famous calligrapher. Born 1743, died September 5, 1816. The artist's ledger 
 records the payment : — "Feb. 1790. Mr. Tomkins, Writing Master, 50.0.0." This 
 picture was bequeathed to the City by Tomkins. It was at the British Institution in 1813 
 and 1823. See " The Hon. Miss F. Harris," No. 75. 
 
 Half length, holding a paper in left and pen in right hand ; table and inkstand. 
 Painted, 1789. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by C. Turner, 1805, 
 
 115. Cupid. 
 
 Lent by Colonel Vivian. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; left hand raised as if holding a bow ; a quiver with arrows hangs 
 from a blue sash on the left side. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 29-I X 24I inches. Engraved by W. Say. 
 
 Unfinished Portrait of Miss Ridge. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Hamilton. 
 
 Half length, seated ; full face ; white dress, trimmed with yellow ; left arm resting 
 on a table. See No. 95. A " Miss Ridge " was sold at the Thomond sale. May 25, 1821, 
 to Mr. Gwatkin, for 30 guineas. 
 
 Painted, 1773. Canvas, 28 X 23^ inches. 
 
 117. Sophia Campbell, wife of Edward, 17th Baron de Clifford. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 Reynolds painted this lady twice ; both portraits were at the Academy in 1875. 
 Half-length ; face turned to the left ; black dress with a white kerchief ; both hands 
 in a muff. 
 
 Painted, 1786. Canvas, 29 X 2\\ inches. 
 
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 116. 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 ii8. ' Lavinia, born Bingham, Countess Spencer. 
 
 Lent dy Dr. Hamilton. 
 
 This picture was at the Royal Academy in 1878. See Nos. 60 and 124. 
 
 Half length ; front face ; hair turned back, slightly powdered ; in a fi-illed hood, pass- 
 ing under the chin and tied with pink ribbon; a muslin handkerchief crossed over the 
 chest ; cloak trimmed with fur. Bought at the Thomond sale for 55 guineas. 
 
 Painted, 1784. Canvas, 29^ X 24^ inches. Engraved by C. H. Hodges, 1785, 
 and S. Cousins. 
 
 119. James, 13TH Earl of Erroll, Hereditary Lord High Con- 
 stable of Scotland and Knight Marshal of that kingdom. 
 
 This picture was described by Mr. Tom Taylor as " a magnificent full length of a magnifi- 
 cent colossus, in cloth of gold," as he appeared at the coronation of George HI., 1761, where, 
 in virtue of his office, he acted as Lord High Constable of Scotland, and forgot to take off his 
 cap of state when the king entered ; on apologizing for his negligence in the most respectful 
 manner, the king begged him to be covered, because he regarded the Lord High Constable's 
 presence as an especial honour to himself. When describing the coronation to Mr. George 
 Montagu, Sept. 24, 1761, Horace Walpole wrote : — " One there was, though of another 
 species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the High Constable of Scotland, Lord Erroll ; as one 
 saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed 
 in tissue, he looked like one of the Giants in Guildhall, new gilt. It added to the energy of 
 his person, that one considered him acting so considerable a part in that very Hall, where 
 so few years ago saw his father, Lord Kilmarnock, condemned to the block." Gray wrote 
 to the Rev. J. Brown : — " Of the men doubtless the noblest and most striking figure was 
 the Earl of Erroll." On Nov. 28, 1761, Walpole again wrote : — "Lady Sarah Lennox has 
 refused Lord Erroll." 
 
 In Boswell's account of his tour with Dr. Johnson in the Hebrides, 1773) is, with much 
 other matter concerning the earl, an interesting notice of a visit to Slains Castle, Aberdeen. 
 This notice describes the reception of the friends by the Earl of Erroll and his countess 
 (Isabella, born Carr, of Etal, Northumberland), with particular reference to this painting, 
 which hung in the drawing-room when the visitors took coffee there after dinner. Boswell 
 wrote: — "This room is ornamented with a number of prints, and with a whole-length 
 picture of Lord Erroll, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of 
 our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyric he concluded by saying, ' Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, Sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should 
 quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' " 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 On account of his magnificent appearance and lofty stature (tlie earl was six feet, four 
 inches in height). Dr. Johnson compared him to Sarpedon. 
 
 Lord ErroU sat to Reynolds in March, 1762. Under some of the prints by T. Watson 
 are these lines : — 
 
 " Take him all in all, 
 We ne'er shall look upon his like again." 
 Lord Erroll died in June, 1778. 
 
 Whole length, with his staff of office ; in his robes over an embroidered coat ; to the 
 left his coronet, to the right a balustrade. 
 
 Painted, 1763. Canvas, 922 X 57 inches. Engraved by Thomas Watson, 1763- 
 
 120. Field - Marshal Jeffery, ist Lord Amherst — a small 
 equestrian figure. 
 
 Lent by the Hon. Pascoe C. Glyn. 
 
 Second son of Jeffery Amherst, Esq., of Riverhead, Kent ; born Jan. 29, 17 17 ; aide- 
 de-camp to Field-Marshal Lord Ligonier ; served at Dettingen and Fontenoy; Major-General 
 in America, 1758- 1760 ; captured Louisburg and Cape Breton; assisted in the reduction of 
 Canada, 1760 ; Commander-in-Chief in America, and, subsequently, in England ; created a 
 Baron, 1770; Field-Marshal, 1796; died Aug. 3, 1797. The "Americanus" of the 
 satirists of his time ; animadverted on by "Junius." For another portrait of this com- 
 mander, see No. 174. He sat to Gainsborough. 
 
 Full length, in armour, upon a white horse. The face turned to the spectator. Holding 
 in the right hand the baton of a Field-Marshal. 
 
 Purchased at Sir Joshua's sale in 1796, by Sir F. Bourgeois, and again (as "Lord 
 Ligonier") at the Dowager Countess of Essex's sale, March, 1883. It was at the Academy 
 in 1870. 
 
 Painted, 1768? Canvas, 29I X 24 inches. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 121. Miss Searle, with a Lamb. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Ford. 
 
 This example was painted for Mr. Benjamin Booth. 
 
 The anecdote current in the family is that when the artist begged Mr. Booth to come 
 and see the sketch, Mr. Booth was so well satisfied that he would have no more done, but 
 carried off the sketch in his carriage. 
 
 Half length, seated, holding a lamb in her arms ; landscape background. 
 
 Painted, 1773. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by Eliz. Judkins, 1775, and G. 
 Dawe, 1801. 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 122. Charles Rollin, the Historian. 
 
 Lent by Thomas Evans, Esq. 
 
 As Rollin, the historian, died in 1741, there must be a mistake in the naming of this 
 portrait. Reynolds was but eighteen when Rollin died. 
 
 From the collection of the Rev. Mr. Kingston, vicar of Sutton St. Edmond, Wisbech. 
 Half length ; in drab coat ; face turned to the right ; right hand holding a book. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 28 X 225 inches. 
 
 123. Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of William Anne, 2nd Earl 
 of Albemarle, married Robert Adair, Esq., the famous 
 surgeon. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 Half length ; full face ; the arms crossed resting on a table ; white dress with black 
 mantilla ; a band of black ribbon and a string of pearls round her neck. 
 
 Painted, I7SS- Canvas, 29 X 24^ inches. 
 
 124. Lavinia, born Bingham, when Viscountess Althorp, after- 
 wards Countess Spencer. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Spencer, K.G. 
 
 See Nos. 60 and 118. 
 
 Half length, in a large straw hat, which half shades the face ; hair falling in curls over 
 her shoulders ; white kerchief crossed on her neck ; black band round the waist ; landscape 
 and trees. Exhibited at the British Institution, 1854. 
 
 Painted, 1782. Canvas, 29^ X 24J inches. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, A. 
 Coute, and S. Cousins. 
 
 125. The Lady (Ann) Stanhope, born Blake-Delaval. 
 
 Lent by the Earlof Mexborough. 
 
 Sister of "Sir F. Blake-Delaval," No. loi, and "The Countess of Mexborough." 
 No. 113. 
 
 Whole length, standing ; her right arm resting on a table, on which are works of art, 
 busts, &c. ; a porte-crayon in her right hand ; her left holds a roll of paper ; a long plait 
 of hair falls over her right shoulder ; landscape in the distance. 
 
 Painted, 1765-6. Canvas, 93 X 57 inches. Engraved by James Watson, 1767, and 
 S. W. Reynolds. 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 126. John, 8th Earl of Rothes. 
 
 Lent by the Countess of Rothes. 
 
 John Leslie, 8th Earl of Rothes, Lord Leslie and Bambreigh, K.T., Lieutenant- 
 General in the Army and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, Colonel of the Third Foot 
 Guards and other regiments, a distinguished officer, was born about 1 700, succeeded his father 
 in 1722, entered the Army, served at Dettingen and Roscoux, K.T. in 1753, died December, 
 1 767. MaiTied, secondly, Mary Lloyd (daughter of the Countess, Mary, of Haddington), who, 
 in 1770, married Mr. Bennet Langton, a particular friend of Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds. " Why ! everybody marries a Countess-Dowager of Rothes ! " was said at the 
 time, because there were, in fact, three ladies of that name married to second husbands. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in his uniform ; star and ribbon ; breastplate ; sash round waist ; 
 lace coat ; his right hand on sword ; battle in the distance. Exhibited in 1763. 
 
 Painted, 1762. Canvas, 50 X 40 inches. Engi-aved by J. McArdell. 
 
 127. Mrs. Thrale (Mrs. Piozzi) and her Daughter, after- 
 wards Viscountess Keith. 
 
 Lent by Louisa, Lady Ashburton. 
 
 This member of the Thrale Collection of portraits by Sir Joshua, painted for Mr. 
 Thrale of Streatham, husband and father of the subjects, was not sold with those works, 
 May, 1816, but was afterwards purchased by Mr. S. Boddington for 78 guineas ; he 
 exhibited it at the Suffolk Street Gallery in 1833. See "Joseph Baretti," No. 73. 
 
 There are repetitions, if not likevsdse copies, of the pictures of the Thrale Collection, 
 which, on being sold and resold, have realized varying prices ; these, being diversely repoited, 
 have caused no end of confusion. With regard to the Thrale sale. Cotton's authority, see 
 No. 73, as above, is likely to be good, because he was present. As Reynolds painted 
 Johnson, Burke, Dr. Burney, Goldsmith, and others of Thrale's friends, independently of 
 the Streatham series, here is another source of confusion. 
 
 Madame D'Arblay (Miss Bumey), in a letter to her son, April 30, 1816, describes the 
 sale of the Streatham pictures :— " To what recollections, painful and pleasing, does this sale 
 give birth ! In the library, in which these pictures were hung, we always breakfasted ; and 
 there I have had as many precious conversations with the great and good Doctor Johnson, 
 as there are days in the year. Dr. Johnson sold the highest of all ! 'tis an honour to our 
 age, that ! — 360 !" &c. 
 
 This picture was sold vrith the Streatham Gallery, see "Baretti," No. 73, in 1816, to 
 S. Boddington, Esq., for ;^8i 18^. 
 
 The younger lady was Hester Maria, eldest daughter of Mr. Thrale, whom Johnson, 
 alluding to Queen Esther, designated "Queenie ;" she is often mentioned in her mother's 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 "Autobiography," Bos well's " Life of Johnson," and Fanny Burney's " Diary ;" she was 
 bom in 1764, married, in 1808, the Hon. George Keith Elphinstone, the famous Admiral 
 and Viscount Keith ; she died March 31, 1857. 
 
 Whole length ; two figures in a landscape ; to the right Mrs. Thrale seated on a stone 
 bench, her head resting on her left hand, while the right hand lies on the arm of her daughter, 
 who kneels beside her. 
 
 Painted, 1781. Canvas, 54^ X 562 inches. 
 
 128. A Study. One of Sir Joshua^s well-known models, referred to 
 in his letters as " the girl with red hair." 
 
 Lent by Major-Gen. R. Mackenzie. 
 
 Whole length of a young girl with auburn hair ; in white drapery, holding a dove 
 between her two hands ; an eagle at her feet ; landscape background. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 495 X 395 inches. 
 
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 129. The Countess of Ancrum — Elizabeth, born Fortescue, / 
 
 AFTERWARDS MaRCHIONESS OF LOTHIAN. / ' 
 
 Lent by H. L. Bischoffsheim, Esq. ' ,oxi , J-^^ 
 
 Half length ; three-quarters face, turned to the right ; pink dress, trimmed with ermine, 
 over white bodice. 
 
 Painted, 1771. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by J. Spilsbury, 1771 ; J. Wilson, 
 1771. 
 
 130. Sir Abraham Hume, Bart., F.R.S. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Brownlow. 
 
 Bom Feb. 20, 1749, Sir Abraham Hume entered the Navy, and served against the 
 Dutch and French ; succeeded his father as second Baronet in 1772 ; he was eminent as a 
 patron of learning and art ; an amateur painter ; one of the founders of the British Institution 
 in 1805 ; intimate with all the dilettanti of his day, and a close friend of Sir Joshua's, who 
 bequeathed a choice of his Claudes to him ; one of the pall-bearers at Reynolds's funeral, 
 March 3, 1793. Died in 1838. His collection of pictures is now the property of Earl 
 Brownlow. Reynolds's ledger records payments of 25 guineas each by Sir Abraham on 
 April 10, 1783, and Feb., 1784. Reynolds painted this subject twice; another portrait 
 is in the Vemon Gift to the National Gallery, No. 305. The present picture was exhibited 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 at the British Institution in 1813, 1833, and 1843, and at the National Portrait Exhibition 
 in 1868. See "Lady (Amelia) Hume," No. 173. 
 
 Half-length, in an oval looking to the left ; powdered hair ; white cravat ; white 
 waistcoat ; crimson coat half open. 
 
 Painted, 1783? Canvas, 29I X 24J inches. Engraved by J. Jones and C. H. Hodges. 
 
 131. The Hon. William Legge. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 
 The Hon W. Legge was the second son of William, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, born 
 1757, died 1784. 
 
 Younger brother of No. 149. 
 
 Half length, in an oval ; as a boy, in a Van Dyck dress ; cloak over his right shoulder ; 
 left sleeve slashed ; front of dress slashed ; looking to his right ; fair hair. 
 
 Painted, 1763. Canvas, 24 X 18 inches. Engraved by J. Spilsbury, 1764. 
 
 132. Charles William Henry Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, 4th 
 Duke of Buccleuch. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G. 
 
 The subject of this portrait was the eldest son of Henry, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, and 
 Lady E. Montagu, No. 77, born May 24, 1772, married Harriet Katherine, daughter of 
 Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney. He succeeded his father as 4th Duke of Buccleuch in 1812, 
 and died in 1819. See No. 96. 
 
 The entries in Reynolds's ledger dated Aug., 1783, "Duke of Buccleuch, for his Son 
 and Daughter, ;£^I47 os. od.," may refer to this and another picture. 
 
 Whole length, when a boy, in a Van Dyck dress, leaning on a slab on which is an 
 owl ; a spaniel dog sitting with his paw up, snarling at the bird ; landscape, sun setting be- 
 hind some trees. 
 
 Painted, 1778. Canvas, 55^ X 44i inches. Engraved by Val. Green. 
 
 133. Sir Thomas Acland. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Morley. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated ; in a landscape ; looking to the right ; caressing a dog 
 with his left hand ; a whip in the right hand ; riding dress. 
 
 Painted, 1768, Canvas, 49!^ X 39s inches. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 134. Mrs. Collyer, as " Chloe," or " C^lia lamenting her 
 Sparrow." 
 
 Mrs. Collyer, or, according to Reynolds's pocket-book, which recorded her sittings to 
 him in February, 1764, " CoUyear," was the wife of Captain, afterwards Admiral Sir 
 George Collyer, and sister of Col. Gwyn, who married Maria, the younger Miss Horneck, 
 Goldsmith's " Jessamy Bride." Bromley states that she was the first and divorced wife of 
 Sir G. Collyer, who was knighted 1775, became Rear- Admiral in 1793, and died in April, 
 1795. Catherine, Maria Horneck's sister was Goldsmith's "Little Comedy," whom 
 Reynolds painted in March, 1764, and later. This picture belonged to Mrs. Gwyn before 
 it passed into the possession of Sir W. Kjiighton. 
 
 Half length, seated ; the right arm resting upon a table ; the head in profile turned to 
 the left ; the eyes bent upon a dead bird lying on the table ; pale pink robe over a white 
 bodice ; a pink rose in the breast. At the British Institution, 1823 and 1864. 
 
 Painted, 1764. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by James Watson, R. Houston, 
 and J. Graham. 
 
 Born in Bombay, Oct. 22, 1742; died at Fulham, June, 1821; son of Laurence 
 Sullivan, Esq., Chairman of the East India Company ; and father of the Rt. Hon. Laurence 
 Sullivan. 
 
 This picture was in the British Institution in 1850 ; the property of the Rt. Hon. 
 Laurence Sullivan. Half length, full face ; red coat ; white frilled shirt ; holding a paper in 
 right hand. 
 
 Painted, 1772. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
 136. The Duchess (Maria, born Walpole) of Gloucester, 
 WHEN Countess Waldegrave. 
 
 Half length, in profile ; a gauze turban on her head ; the end falling over her left 
 shoulder. See No. 152. 
 
 Painted, 1 76 1. Canvas, 29I x 24 inches. Engraved by James McArdell, 1762. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Knighton, Bart. 
 
 135. Stephen Sullivan, Esq. 
 
 Lent by H. Hippisley, Esq. 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 137. Charles, qth Lord Cathcart, K.T. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Cathcart. 
 
 This Lord Cathcart, bom in 1721, entered the army and served under Lord Stair on 
 the continent, and acted as aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland at Fontenoy, where his 
 only brother was killed, and he was shot through the face, 1745. After this period he was 
 compelled to wear the lunette of black silk which, as in this portrait, covered the scar 
 produced by the wound. He was one of the hostages, the other being the Earl of Sussex, 
 see No. 72, for the performance of the English part in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748. 
 He was made a Knight of the Thistle in 1763, appointed Ambassador to the Empress 
 Catherine of Russia in 1 768, and resided in St. Petersburg for a considerable period. He 
 was the friend of James Watt, Adam Smith, and other noteworthy men. He died in 
 London in 1776' The patch distinguishes his portraits. His descendant, the present 
 Earl Cathcart, possesses a picture by C. Philips, representing "Cathcart of Fontenoy" 
 and William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (see No. 178), small equestrian figures, in 
 which, on the cheek of the former, the same patch, of which he is said to have been very 
 proud, appears. 
 
 This portrait, attesting the influence of those studies of Correggio which the artist 
 estimated so highly, is an interesting example of Reynolds's earlier mode of painting. 
 It appeared in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. See "Jane Hamilton, Lady 
 Cathcart," No. 71. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in uniform, with breastplate ; a black half-moon patch under his 
 right eye ; on his right is an arch ; on his left, a curtain ; a balustrade in front. 
 
 Painted, c. 1754. Canvas, 48^ X 382 inches. Engraved by J. McArdell, finished by 
 R. Houston, 1770. 
 
 138. The Hon. Mrs, Parker, afterwards Lady Boringdon. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Mor ley. 
 
 Whole length, standing ; face in profile ; her right arm resting on a pedestal, on 
 which is a vase ; her left hand across her right forearm ; in a woody landscape. 
 
 Painted, 1772. Canvas, 92 X 56 inches. Engraved by Thomas Watson, 1773' 
 
 139. Mrs. Hartley with her Child. Nymph and Young 
 Bacchus. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in a landscape ; the child as a youthful Bacchanal sits on her 
 right arm, which is supported at her hip ; her left hand holds his right vreist. Reynolds 
 sold this picture to the Earl of Carysfort for fifty guineas. 
 
 Painted, 1773. Canvas, 35 X 27 inches. Engraved by Giuseppe Marchi, 1773, and 
 G. Nutter, 1 80 1. 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 140. John Simpson, Esq., of Bradley. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Ravensworth. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated ; turned to the left ; red embroidered coat ; left hand in 
 his bosom ; right hand resting on the table. 
 
 Painted, 1767. Canvas, 50 X 39 inches. 
 
 141. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Yarborough. 
 
 This picture was at the Academy in 1875. 
 
 Whole length in a landscape ; red coat ; hands crossed, resting upon a stick and 
 holding a hat. 
 
 Painted, 1776. Canvas, 92 X S6 inches. <> 
 
 142. Miss Fanny Kemble, afterwards Mrs. Twiss. 
 
 Lent by the Rt. Hon. George Cavendish- Bentinck, M.P. 
 
 Frances, or Fanny Kemble, fourth child of Roger Kemble, actor and theatrical 
 manager, and sister of Mrs. Siddons, and Stephen and Elizabeth Kemble, was born at 
 Hereford, Dec. 28, 1759. She became an actress and performed in London ; marrying 
 Mr. Francis Twiss, she retired from the stage. She died at Bath in 1812. This picture 
 was at the Royal Academy in 1784, and at the British Institution in 1823. It was formerly 
 in the possession of Sir John Beckett. Northcote's " Life of Reynolds," ii. 183, contains a 
 "poetic tribute " to the virtues of this lady, and the charms of her portrait, including : — 
 
 " In Kemble's look chastis'd will yet be seen 
 What one bright daughter of the stage has been ; 
 Reserv'd, tho' mingling with the loud, the vain. 
 And unseduc'd where syren pleasures reign. 
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 " Should time, whose force our hopes in vain withstand. 
 Blast the nymph's face, and shake the painter's hand ; 
 Yet may these tints divide the fame they give, 
 And art and beauty bid each other live ! " 
 
 This picture was one of the greatest attractions of the Exhibition, 1784, when it was 
 styled " Portrait of a Lady, " No. 183. It hung close to "Mrs. Siddons, as the Tragic 
 Muse," No. 55, which was painted at the same period. In the same collection were 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 "Mrs. Abingtonas Roxalana," "Dr. Chauncy," " Lady Dashwood and Child," and the 
 admirable "Master Bradyll." 
 
 Half length ; three-quarters face, turned to the left ; white dress with blue sash ; a blue 
 ribbon twined in the hair and tied under the chin. 
 
 Painted, 1783. Canvas, 29 X 24^ inches. Engraved by J. Jones. 
 
 143. David Garrick, in the Character of " Kitely." 
 
 Lent by Loziis Huth, Esq. 
 
 The original picture of " Garrick as ' Kitely ' " is at Windsor, and dated 1768. It was 
 at the British Institution in 1827. 
 
 This portrait came from the collection of the late General C. R. Fox. It belonged to 
 Stephen, 2nd Lord Holland, and afterwards to the Earl of Upper-Ossory, see "The 
 Nymph," No. 39, who left it to Henry, Lord Holland, in 1818; it was bequeathed to 
 Col. C. Fox. 
 
 Half length, leaning on his right arm ; his left hand visible beneath a cloak. Dressed 
 in Van Dyck costume. 
 
 Son of James, 1st Earl Waldegrave, born March 14, 1715, grandson of a daughter of 
 James II. by Arabella Churchill ; Governor and Keeper of the Priyy Purse to George, Prince 
 of Wales (George III.), and Prince Edward, Duke of York; Teller of the Exchequer, 
 Master of the Stannaries, Lord of the Treasury ; married, 1759, Maria, one of the natural 
 daughters of Sir Edward Walpole, whose three daughters Reynolds painted for Horace 
 Walpolein 1781, see "The Ladies Eliz.," &c.. No. 27, and "Prince William Frederick," 
 No. 53. Lord Waldegrave died of small-pox, April 28, 1763, see "Maria, Countess 
 Waldegrave," Nos. 136 and 152. The earl was often mentioned by Horace Walpole in his 
 "Letters" and "Memoirs of the Reign of George III.," and by the other memoir-writers 
 of his time ; the former said that his lordship's aspect was "unlovely," but he warmly 
 commended the earl's goodness,, sagacity, and manliness. Buried at Navestock. His 
 "Memoirs" were published in 1821, with a frontispiece by — Thomson engraved from 
 this portrait. This picture was in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. 
 
 Profile, half length ; star and ribbon of the order ; white cravat ; bag wig. 
 
 Painted, 1761. Canvas, 30 X 24 inches. Engraved by J. McArdell, 1762, and — 
 Thomson. 
 
 Painted, 1768. Canvas, 29 X 24^ inches. Engraved by J. Finlayson. 
 
 144. James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, K.G. 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 145. Master AND Miss Parker, children of Mr. Parker, afterwards ' ^ '^-^Wtvx 
 Lord Boringdon. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Morley. 
 
 Reynolds's ledger states the payment for this picture thus : — "July, 1779. Mr. Parker, 
 for his two children, 210/. os. od." This picture was at the Academy in 1870. 
 
 Whole length, in a landscape ; the boy in a red coat, with his arms around his sister's 
 waist. See No. 163. 
 
 Painted, 1778. Canvas, 53 X 43 inches. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 146. William, ist Marquis of Lansdowne. aX^ oJ^-rr^ i Qs^ 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Morley. ^ 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated ; in peer's robes ; turned to the left. 
 Painted, 1789. Canvas, 50 X 40 inches. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 147. Young Lady, Miss Hickey, niece of Edmund Burke's 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Lent by Sir Charles Mills, Bart. 
 
 Half length, with a white straw hat partly shading the face ; the two hands gloved and 
 resting upon a pedestal ; black mantilla over the shoulders. 
 
 Painted, 1773. Canvas, 285 X 23I inches. 
 
 148, Edmond Malone. 
 
 Lent by William Agnew, Esq., M.P. 
 
 E. Malone was one of Sir Joshua's executors ; this portrait was bequeathed by him to 
 Lord Sunderlin, from one of whose descendants it passed to Mr. Agnew. 
 
 Presented to the National Portrait Gallery by William Agnew, Esq. , M. P. 
 Half-length ; powdered wig ; head turned to the left. 
 
 Painted, 1786. Canvas, 23J X 192 inches. Engraved by Bartolozzi, 1787. 
 
 149. The Hon. George Legge, Viscount Lewisham. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 
 Afterwards 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, K.G., elder brother of No. 131. 
 Half length, in an oval ; blue dress; face turned to the left. 
 
 Painted, 1763. Canvas, 24 X 18 inches. Engraved by J, Spilsbury, 1764- 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 150. Lady Elizabeth Foster, afterwards Duchess of Devon- 
 shire. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Devonshire^ K.G. 
 
 This lady was the second daughter of Frederick Augustus, 4th Earl of Bristol, 
 Bishop of Derry : married first, to J. Foster, Esq. ; secondly, to William, 5th Duke of 
 Devonshire, see No. 190, his second wife. At the British Institution, 1813, and the Inter- 
 national Exhibition, 1862. 
 
 Half length ; three-quarters face, turned to the right ; white dress, with lace collar, tied 
 with a pink ribbon, blue sash, powdered hair. 
 
 Painted, 1787. Canvas, 29^ X 24^ inches. Engraved by Francis Bartolozzi, 1787. 
 
 151. Francis Russell, Marquis of Tavistock, son of the 4th 
 Duke of Bedford. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 Married Lady Elizabeth Keppel ; b. 1739, killed by a fall from his horse, March 22, 
 1767. See No. ill. 
 
 Half length ; seated ; face turned to the left ; the left arm resting on a table, the hand 
 raised to the face ; red coat trimmed with fur ; embroidered waistcoat. 
 
 Painted, 1766. Canvas, 29 X 24 J inches. Engraved by J. Watson, 1767. 
 
 152. Maria, Countess Waldegrave, afterwards Duchess of 
 Gloucester. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Waldegrave. 
 
 Maria, natural daughter of Sir Edward Walpole : married, first, James, 2nd Earl 
 Waldegrave, see No. 144 ; secondly, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, see No. 47. 
 She was the mother of the three Ladies Waldegrave, see their portraits, No. 27, of the late 
 Duke of Gloucester, and of the Princess Sophia of Gloucester. 
 
 Reynolds painted many portraits of this beautiful lady besides the present example, 
 including that representing her with Lady Laura, her daughter, nestling in her lap, which 
 Houston engraved; it was at the British Institution in 1813 and 1853. Mr. Vernon 
 Harcourt sent a single figure of this lady to the same exhibition in 1858, and to the 
 Academy in 1880. Lord Carlingford has a profile, in a turban, No. 136. 
 
 Whole length ; in peeress's robes ; face turned to the right ; her right hand carries a 
 coronet ; with her left hand she draws aside a curtain. 
 
 Painted, 1759. Canvas, 92 X 55 inches. 
 
East Gallery. 
 
 153. Lady Gertrude Fitz- Patrick, " La Collina." Painted for 
 the Earl of Upper-Ossory. 
 
 Lent by the Dowager Lady Castletown of Upper-Ossory. '■viC^Uv^ £*>v. • 
 
 This picture was at the British Institution in 1845, and at the Academy in 1875, No. 73. ( L.infu<^ ^ L , ^jy)CVt{i 
 Whole length of a little girl in a white dress, with her skirts gathered up round her ^Y^J^\i/\i^ 
 
 waist ; a kerchief crossed upon her shoulders ; the hands held together ; standing on a hill 
 
 with a flower growing at her feet to the left. 
 
 Painted, 1779- Canvas, 55^ X 49 inches. Engraved by John Jones, J. Dean, and 
 J. R. Smith. 
 
 154. James, 5th Earl of Loudoun, born 1726, died 1786. 
 
 Lent by the Lord Donington. 
 
 This peer was a major-general, and succeeded the 4th Earl of Loudoun when the 
 latter died of wounds received at Fontenoy, where he commanded the British horse. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in military uniform 5 his hands upon his hips ; landscape 
 background. 
 
 Painted, 1789. Canvas, 495 X 38^ inches. 
 
 155. MosEs IN THE Bulrushes, 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Leeds. 
 
 Reynolds had 125 guineas for this picture. Another version is at Swinton Park, 
 Masham. 
 
 Nude figure of a child, lying on white drapery in a cradle among bulrushes. 
 Painted, 1784. Canvas, 27^ X 3Si inches. Engraved by John Dean, 1786. 
 
 156. The Adoration of the Shepherds. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G. ^ 
 
 This is the large picture in oil of one of the divisions of the glass in the window of the ^ ^VL-^ ^^t^r^O^SxA^ Vj^T%VjpyA^ 
 ante-chapel of New College, Oxford. It comprises portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and 
 the glass-painter, William Jervis, who was employed to carry out the design of his 
 companion here. Sold at the Thomond sale for 430/. lOf. 
 
 Full-length figures ; to the right, a figure kneeling on a rock, and holding a staff, his 
 face turned to the spectator ; behind him to the left, a standing figure in white dress with 
 both hands raised to heaven. 
 
 Painted, 1785. Canvas, 82J X 33 inches. Engraved by G, S. Facius, 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 157. Margaret Georgiana, born Poyntz, Countess Spencer, 
 AND Georgiana Spencer, her Daughter, afterwards 
 Duchess of Devonshire. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Spencer, K.G. 
 
 This picture was lent by Earl Spencer to the exhibition of Art-Treasures at Man- 
 chester in 1857. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; her arms encircling her child, who stands upon a table ; to the 
 right a looped curtain behind the figures ; a landscape background. See Nos. 81 and 199. 
 
 Painted, 1769. Canvas, 48 X 44 inches. Engraved by James Watson, 1770 ; C. 
 Corbutt, and S. Paul. 
 
 158. Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl - of Hardwicke. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Hardwicke. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in peer's robes ; the right hand raised in front, and holding the 
 border of his robe, the left hand resting upon a book, which lies on a table by his side. 
 
 Painted, 1758. Canvas, 495 X 39j inches. 
 
 159. The Earl of Pembroke and his Son, 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 Henry, loth Earl of Pembroke and 7th Earl of Montgomery. Bom July 3, 1734, 
 married, 1 756, Elizabeth, second daughter of Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough, see 
 No. 164, by whom he had one child, George Augustus, born Sept. II, 1759, who succeeded 
 to his father's titles. The loth Earl was a Lieutenant-General and Colonel of the 1st Regi- 
 ment of Dragoons. He died January 26, 1794. See Walpole's accounts of his elopement 
 with "Kitty Hunter," and early reconciliation with his wife. 
 
 Whole length, seated at a table, his left hand resting on some papers and holding a 
 pen in his right hand. To the right his son, a boy of about four years, with his left hand 
 resting on the head of a dog. In the foreground to the right a saddle and a whip. 
 
 Painted, 1765. Canvas, 705 X 945 inches. 
 
 160. Cymon and Iphigenia. 
 
 Lent by H.M. the Queen. 
 
 This picture, which was at the Academy in 1789, at the British Institution In 1813, 
 1826, 1827, and 1833, and at the International Exhibition, 1862, was given to George IV. 
 by Lady Thomond, with a portrait of Sir Joshua by himself. It is Reynolds's last 
 " fancy picture." 
 
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 Iphigenia, almost nude, lying asleep in a landscape ; Cupid leading Cymon, who holds 
 a staff in his left hand, between the trees ; rays of the sun among the branches overhead. 
 
 Painted, 1789. Canvas, 55 X 66 inches. Engraved by Francis Haward, 1797' 
 
 161. William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Fitzwilliam. 
 
 The youngest son of George II., uncle of George III., bom at Leicester House, 
 Leicester Fields, April 15, 1 721, created Duke of Cumberland, 1726, entered the army 
 and became Field-Marshal and Commander-in-Chief, wounded at Dettingen in 1743 ; 
 commanded the British at Fontenoy, see "Charles, 9th Lord Cathcart," No. 137. 
 Ostensible commander in the suppression of the Rebellion in Scotland in 174S, he was 
 on account of cruelty alleged to have been inflicted on the Highlanders, called " the 
 Butcher ; " his great corpulence and stern manner doubtless originated this designation. 
 Commanded the Confederate Armies in Flanders, 1747 ; concluded the Convention of 
 Closter-Seven, 1757 died in Upper Grosvenor Street, October 31, 1765. See No. 178. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in robes of the Garter ; full face ; the left arm resting on a 
 pedestal. 
 
 Painted, 1758. Canvas, 62 X 49 inches. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in the robes of the Garter ; holding a scroll in his right hand. 
 See No. 197. 
 
 Painted, 1774. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. Engraved by Edward Fisher, 1774, and 
 William Dickinson. 
 
 163. Theresa, Lady Boringdon, and her Son, afterwards the 
 1ST Earl of Morley. 
 
 Three-quarters length, seated ; face turned to the left ; right arm resting on the arm of 
 the chair, the hand raised to the face ; white dress, with kerchief bordered with blue 
 ribbon ; her son, also in white, stands beside her. See No. 145. 
 
 The first payment for this picture, of 50 guineas, is, according to Cotton's reprint, noted 
 in Reynolds's ledger under June, 1783. 
 
 Painted, 1773. Canvas, 47 X 391 inches. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 162. The 2ND Marquis of Rockingham, K.G. 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 164. The Countess of Pembroke. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 Wife of the Earl of Pembroke, No. 159. One of the most beautiful women of her 
 time, a prominent member of fashionable society and the " Coteries." 
 
 Whole length, seated in a room with a pug dog at her feet. To the right a crimson 
 curtain, to the left a large antique vase. Behind, a table with work basket ; red and blue 
 drapery over a white dress. 
 
 Painted, X764. Canvas, 70J X 942 inches. 
 
 165. A Landscape, View from Richmond Hill. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Northbrook. 
 
 A large, boldly painted, and effective view of the country and water as seen from 
 Richmond Hill, comprising at least part of the view obtainable from Reynolds's country 
 house, which was built for him by Sir W. Chambers at that place. Exhibited at the British 
 Institution in 1813 and 1823. At the sale of the pictures belonging to the Marchioness of 
 Thomond, niece of Sir Joshua, May 18, 1821, this picture, then styled "View of Petersham 
 and Twickenham Meadows from Richmond Hill," was, as Lot 63, sold to Samuel Rogers 
 for 150 guineas ; at Rogers's sale, in 1856, it was resold to Mr. F. Baring for 430 guineas. 
 It was said that Reynolds never slept at his villa, and Rogers, in his " Table Talk," 
 stated that C. J. Fox asserted Sir Joshua never enjoyed the view from this place, "he used 
 to say that the human face was his landscape." Birch's print is entitled " A View from 
 Sir J. Reynolds's House on Richmond Hill." It was published in the "Delices de la 
 Grande Bretagne." Constable had a " Landscape," by Sir Joshua. 
 
 Painted, 1788. Canvas, 27 X 35 inches. Engraved by J. Jones and W. Birch. 
 
 166. The Shepherd Boy. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Fitzwilliam, K. G. 
 
 This is one of the oil pictures for the New College windows, see No. 1 56. 
 Full length, resting on the fallen trunk of a tree ; a stick under his left arm ; wearing 
 a shepherd's hat and carrying a sack on his shoulder ; by his side a dog. 
 
 Painted, 1780, Canvas, 82 J X 33 inches. Engraved by G. S. Facius. 
 
 167. Master Philip Yorke, afterwards Lord Royston. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Hardwicke. 
 
 Lost in a storm off Liibeck ; son of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke. See No. 158. 
 Mentioned in the artist's ledger :— " March 1788, Mr. York, for Master York, ;^.I0S." 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 Whole length of a child in white dress, turned to the left ; a robin perched on the left 
 arm ; to the left a dog, seated, and looking up into the child's face ; landscape background. 
 
 Painted, 1787. Canvas, 49 X 391 inches. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, 1788. 
 
 168. W, Joshua Sharp. 
 
 Lent by John Malcolm, of Poltalloch, Esq. 
 
 An eminent conveyancer. " Portrait — Josiah Sharpe, Esq." was at the British Institu- 
 tion in 1817, the property of E. H. Ball, Esq. See Northcote's " Reynolds," ii. 211. 
 
 This picture was at the British Institution in 1854, the property of Mrs. Vulliamy. 
 
 Half length, seated; one hand resting on his thigh, the other supported by the table, 
 on which are papers and an inkstand ; " a calm, bland, sagacious face ; " coat buttoned to 
 the throat ; powdered wig ; a curtain, with books on shelves ; on a deed on the table is 
 written, "Draft Conveyance, W. Peach and others, to Sir Ed. Hughes." 
 
 Painted, 1785. Canvas, 49J X 39? inches. Engraved by C. H. Hodges, 1786, and 
 S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 Daughter of Theophilus, 9th Earl of Huntingdon, and Selina, his wife (famous for her 
 patronage of Whitefield and the Calvinistic Methodists), died at the age of twenty-two, in 
 1763, on the eve of marriage with her cousin. Captain George Hastings. She was one of 
 the'earls' daughters who bore the train of Queen Charlotte at her coronation. This portrait 
 is named, without the price or date, in Reynolds's ledger. Lady Selina sat to him in 
 September, 1759. Another version of the portrait is in the collection of Colonel Clifford. 
 
 Half-length, leaning on her folded arms ; pearls in hair ; a plait of hair falling over 
 right shoulder ; a bouquet of roses in her bosom. 
 
 Painted, 1759. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by R. Houston, 1761 ; and, 
 later, by C. Spooner. 
 
 170. The Marquis of Huntly. After Van Dyck. 
 
 Lent by W. H. Grenfell, Esq. 
 
 169. Lady Selina Hastings. 
 
 Sold at the Rogers Sale, May 2, 1856, Lot 525. 
 
 Whole length, in costume of the period ; right hand resting upon a staff. 
 Painted, . Canvas, 25 X 14 inches. 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 I. Miss Harriet Whitbread, afterwards Mrs. Gordon. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Bright. 
 
 Miss Whitbread was the eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel Whitbread, M.P., of Cardington, 
 Bedfordshire, and Bedwell, Hertfordshire. This picture was sold at Christie's, 1829, to a 
 gentleman of Buckinghamshire for 80 guineas, who resold it to Mrs. Gordon for the same 
 price. Mrs. Gordon sat several times to Sir Joshua, and died in 1832. 
 
 Whole length, in a landscape ; turned to the left ; white dress ; the right hand 
 extended. 
 
 Painted, 1769. Canvas, 91^ X 55 inches. 
 
 . The Marquis of Titchfield. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Portland. 
 
 Whole length, when a youth, in a landscape ; Van Dyck dress ; a stick in his right 
 hand ; left arm bent ; hand to front of dress ; left leg advanced ; rosettes in shoes ; a large 
 tree behind him. 
 
 Painted, 1776. Canvas, 54^ X 44 inches. Engraved by T. Jehner, 1777' 
 
 ;. Lady (Amelia) Hume. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Brownlow. 
 
 Daughter of John Egerton, Bishop of Durham, grand-daughter of Henry Grey, 
 Duke of Kent ; married Sir A. Hume, Bart., see No. 130. Sat to Reynolds in 1784 ; her 
 picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy as No. 71 in 1785, when Walpole marked 
 it as "good." It was at the British Institution in 1813, 1833, and 1843. Reynolds's 
 ledger recorded a payment, "Dec. 1785, Sir Abraham Hume, for Lady Hume, 52/. lo^." 
 It was painted on a panel at the particular request of the lady's husband. 
 
 Half-length, sitting ; three-quarters face ; spaniel in her lap, black mantilla, white 
 fichu ; hair curled. 
 
 Painted, 1784. Panel, 29 X 23 inches. Engraved by E. Edwards, 1795. 
 
 74. Field-Marshal Jeffery, ist Lord Amherst. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Amherst. 
 
 See the same title, No. 120. This picture was at the British Institution in 1843. 
 Half length, in armour ; right arm leaning on a staff ; hand to face, which is in hal 
 
East Gallery. 
 
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 profile, looking to his right ; his left hand gloved ; before him a helmet and a plan of the 
 city of Montreal ; in the distance his troops are passing the rapids of the St, Lawrence 
 in boats. 
 
 Painted, 1765. Canvas, 50 X 40 inches. Engraved by James Watson, 1766, 
 R. Parcel, and S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 175. The Infant Hercules, 
 
 Lent by the Earl Fitzwilliam. 
 
 Sometimes called "Hercules strangling the Serpents," a repetition of part of the famous 
 picture sent to Russia, for vyhich the Empress Catherine paid 1,500 guineas, and gave 
 Sir Joshua her cipher in diamonds on a gold box. The carnations look, according to W. 
 Hodges's phrase, as if they had " been boiled in brandy," The painter's ledger records 
 the receipt, "June, 1791, Lord Fitzwilliam, for ' Hercules in the Cradle ' in full, 175/, lOj." 
 S. Rogers stated that Reynolds met a rosy little boy near Beaconsfield; he patted him on 
 the head, and, looking in his face, said, " I must give more colour to my Infant Hercules." 
 The attitude of Hercules was, Leslie said, copied from a little old German woodcut in 
 his possession, which had belonged to Reynolds. The large picture was at the Academy 
 in 1788. It was engraved by J. Walker, 1792. The picture before us was at the British 
 Institution in 1813 (third hanging. No. loo; fourth hanging, No. 17). 
 
 The boy was painted from William Rolfe, son of Edmund Burke's bailiff at Butler's 
 Court, near Beaconsfield; the child grew up, occupied Sealy's Farm, his own land, in the 
 same neighbourhood, and, in 1844, testified to Lord Northwick, in respect to another 
 version of this work then at Thirlstane House, that he was painted by Reynolds in 1788, 
 when he was about six months old. See No. 56, which belongs to the Lord Northwick. 
 
 Full length, lying in a cradle strangling serpents. 
 
 Painted, 1788. Canvas, 49 X 39 inches. Engraved by C. H. Hodges, 1793, and 
 W, J. Ward. 
 
 176. Lord Richard Cavendish. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. 
 
 Exhibited at the Academy in 1781 as " Portrait of a Gentleman," No. 184. 
 Three-quarters length, looking to his left ; his right arm extended, resting on a stone ; 
 left hand on his hip ; in the distance, the Egyptian desert with the head of the Sphinx. 
 
 Painted, 1780. Canvas, 53 X 4i4 inches. Engraved by J. Raphael Smith, 1781. 
 
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 East Gallery. 
 
 177. The Marchioness of Thomond, Mary Palmer, Viscountess 
 Inchiquin, niece of Sir Joshua Reynolds, sister of Mrs. R. L, 
 Gwatkin. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Gwatkin. 
 
 " Hope nursing Love," said to include a portrait of this lady, is in the possession of the 
 Marquis of Lansdowne, now in the Royal Academy Exhibition, No. 18 ; another version 
 was in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867, No. 570. The face of "Hope" was more 
 probably depicted from a model, or "Miss Morris," see "A Negro," No. 42, than from 
 that of Sir Joshua's niece. When painted in Mrs. Gwatkin's portrait the niece was Miss 
 Palmer, by which name the engravings are recognized. 
 
 Half length ; full face ; black hat, with a white feather ; black dress ; white kerchief. 
 
 Painted, 1784. Canvas, 30 X 34-4 inches. Engraved by Joseph Collyer, 1785. 
 
THIRD ROOM. 
 
 178. William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. CXcJk'^i7j/(lC . W 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. ^ /j^k^ UOj* ; vt^ ^ 
 
 Whole length, in coronation robes ; right hand in his belt ; left hand holding the hilt of 
 his sword. See the same title, No. 161. 
 
 Painted, 1758. Canvas, 99J X 65^ inches. 
 
 179. Alderman William Beckford, M.P., afterwards twice 
 (1763 and 1770) Lord Mayor of London. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Hamilton, K. T. 
 
 This is the famous supporter of Wilkes and the friend of Pitt, an antagonist of Lord 
 Bute's government, who distinguished himself in many ways on the popular side of political 
 affairs until the very day of his death, June 21, 1770. The culmination of his popularity 
 was marked by the applause which attended the delivery of an address of the citizens of 
 London to the King, praying for a dissolution of the House of Commons, May 23, 1770, when, 
 as it is asserted, he replied to his Majesty's formal assurances by an unconventional but 
 veiled remonstrance, which is engraved on the base of the statue erected in Guildhall by the 
 Common Council of London to commemorate his services on this and former occasions. 
 His enemies called him "Alderman Sugar-cane," and the " Creole," because much of his 
 enormous wealth was derived from sugar estates in the West Indies. In the year he sat to 
 Reynolds, a large part of Fonthill, which he had erected at a prodigious cost and furnished 
 with pictures of great value, was burnt. Walpole stated that on being told of this disaster 
 
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 Beckford said, coolly: — "Oh ! I have an odd ^30,000 in a drawer ; I will build it up 
 again. It won't be above ^^i.ooo apiece difference to my thirty children." Among his 
 ' children was William Beckford, M.P., the younger, see No. 186. Lord Mayor Beckford 
 sat to Reynolds in December, 1755. 
 
 Whole length, holding a scroll in his right hand. In the background, to the left, a 
 view of the Thames, with London Bridge and St. Paul's. 
 
 Painted, 1755. Canvas, 11 1 X 73 inches. 
 
 180. Miss Angelica Kauffman, R.A. 
 
 Lent by E. Fafon Watson, Esq. 
 
 Whole length, in a landscape ; holding a crayon in her right hand ; white brocaded 
 dress ; red drapery. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 84 X 62 inches. 
 
 181. Commodore the Hon. Augustus Keppel, afterwards Admiral, 
 and Viscount Keppel; second son of William Anne, 2nd Earl 
 of Albemarle. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Albemarle, 
 
 This distinguished naval commander, born April 2, 1 725, was a midshipman on board 
 the " Centurion," one of Anson's fleet, which circumnavigated the world in 1740-5, see 
 No. 6. At the taking of Paita, he was slightly wounded ; appointed to command a squadron 
 of ships, being the " Centurion," " Assurance," " Unicorn," and "Seahorse," he was ordered 
 to proceed to Algiers to demand restitution from the Dey of money plundered by some 
 Barbary corsairs out of the Lisbon packet, "Prince Frederick." The "Centurion," 
 under the command of Captain Keppel, was refitting at Plymouth Dock (Devonport) when 
 Keppel induced Reynolds to accompany him on board the vessel to the Mediterranean. 
 She sailed May 11, 1749. By this means Reynolds reached Italy. Keppel chastised the 
 Dey, exacted restitution and an apology from him, and then proceeded on his voyage. He 
 became a Commodore in 1752, sat to Reynolds for this picture in 1753, was appointed 
 Rear-Admiral of the Blue in 1761, Lord of the Admiralty in 1765, Admiral in 1778; 
 fought the indecisive battle off Ushant against the French in 1778 ; was accused by Sir Hugh 
 Palliser of incapacity, but acquitted in February, 1779, see Walpole's "Letters" for 
 details of this subject and the admiral's part in the transaction ; received the thanks of both 
 Houses of Parliament for his services, and was created Viscount Keppel in 1782 ; twice 
 first Lord of the Admiralty, 1782-84; retired on the accession of Pitt, and died unmarried 
 in 1786, when the viscounty expired. See the other portrait. No. 44. He was the constant 
 
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 friend of Reynolds, who painted him several times at different periods. His mother was 
 "Lady Anne Lennox," No. 67. Exhibited at the British Institution, 1864. 
 
 The original and famous picture on which the fortune of Reynolds was founded. 
 
 Whole length, in naval uniform, bareheaded, walking on the sea-shore ; his right arm 
 and hand extended ; left hand on his sword ; a stormy sea on his left ; high rocks on his 
 right. 
 
 Painted, 1753. Canvas, 94 X 58 inches. Engraved by Edward Fisher, 1759. 
 
 182. Portrait of a Lady. 
 
 Lent by Rev. W. H. Wayne. 
 
 Half length ; right hand raised to the face ; landscape background. 
 Painted, . Canvas, 35 X 26 inches. 
 
 183. Lady Beaumont. ' 
 
 Lent by Sir George Beaumont, Bart. 
 
 Margaret, daughter of John Willes, Esq., of Astrop, Northamptonshire, and wife of 
 Sir G. Beaumont, No. 8, to whom she was married a year before she sat to Reynolds, in 
 March, 1779. Walpole, seeing this picture in the Royal Academy in 1780, as "No. 12, 
 Portrait of a Lady," marked it as "well." According to the practice of that period the 
 names of sitters for portraits were seldom given in the catalogues of exhibitions, those of 
 ladies were rarely quoted. Lady Beaumont was much esteemed by artists and the world at 
 large. Her character was illustrated by Walpole in a letter to Miss Berry, April 23, 1 791, 
 concerning Mrs. Garrick and other friends of the Beaumonts : — " Mrs. Garrick, who suspects, 
 as I do, that Miss Europa was not very angry with Mr. Jupiter, had very warm words, a few 
 nights ago, at the Bishop of London's (Beilby Porteus), with Lady Beaumont ; but I diverted 
 the quarrel by starting the stale story of the Gunning. (See "Miss Elizabeth Gunning," No. 
 26.) You know Lady Beaumont's eagerness ; she is ready to hang the apothecary (concerned 
 in the Gunhilda Gunning affair) with her own hands." Her husband's anxious encourage- 
 ment of painters threw Lady Beaumont into their company. The records of the day abound 
 in notices of her goodness and sensibility ; it was she who, when Wilkie and Haydon 
 went to dine with Sir George, owing to her graceful manner his guests were all at ease — 
 leaned forward at dessert, and said : — -"When do you begin Lord Mulgrave's picture, Mr. 
 Haydon ? " and thus flattered the hopes of Haydon, awakening the attention of the other 
 guests. Haydon, in 1806, described her as " a graceful woman, looking young for her age." 
 Lord Mulgrave's commission to Haydon was to paint " Dentatus," a work which excited 
 great controversy ; its reception provoked the painter to strong resentment, and alienated 
 him from the Royal Academy. It is now at Mulgrave Castle, Whitby. Wilkie, Jackson, 
 
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 Third Room. 
 
 and other artists testified to the kindness of Lady Beaumont. She died July, 1829. 
 Reynolds's ledger recorded the payment for this likeness thus:— "May, 1779, Lady 
 Beaumont, 30/." This was the first of two payments. The picture was at the British 
 Institution in 1813 and 1858, and at the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867. 
 
 Half-length, oval ; in a black mantilla ; three-quarters face, looking to her left ; a white 
 kerchief over her neck. 
 
 Painted, 1779. Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. Engraved by J. R. Smith, 1780, and 
 S. W. Reynolds. 
 
 Mrs. Moore. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Hamilton. 
 
 This lady was Jane, bom Hamilton, wife of Mr. Edward Moore, poet and dramatist, 
 author of "The Gamester" and other plays. 
 
 Bust, full face ; black cloak and hood shading the face ; white frill. 
 
 Painted, 1775-7. Canvas, 23 X 195 inches. 
 
 185. The Gleaners, " Macklin Family Picture," or " The 
 Cottagers." An Illustration of Thomson's " Seasons." 
 
 Lent by Robert Gosling, Esq. 
 
 The history of this large picture is as follows. In publishing large and costly illustrated 
 works Alderman Boydell's rival was Mr. Macklin, who, as he contemplated a ' ' Bible " of 
 even greater pretensions than those of his antagonist's "Shakespeare," needed as much as 
 his aldermanic antagonist the countenance of the President of the Royal Academy. Of 
 Reynolds accordingly, Macklin bought "Tuccia, the Vestal Virgin," an illustration of 
 Gregory's "Ode to Meditation," for which he paid, said Northcote, 300 guineas, though 
 Reynolds's ledger refers to the receipt of 200 guineas only ; Macklin likewise bought for 500 
 guineas "The Holy Family," which is now in the National Gallery; and, for a con- 
 siderable sum, — which it would be difficult to ascertain, as the eniry in Reynolds's ledger 
 confuses it with the prices of various works, in all more than £2000 — a painting which is 
 sometimes called "Macklin's Family Picture" or "The Cottagers," otherwise "The 
 Gleaners. " This is now before us, and represents an Arcadian scene, before the door of 
 a cottage, with the publisher's wife and daughter seated in domestic happiness, with 
 Miss Potts, a dear and beautiful friend of theirs, standing with a sheaf of corn on her 
 head ; the last-named figure claims the greatest interest from all who admire the works of 
 the Landseers, because in a short time after the damsel sat to Sir Joshua in this guise, she 
 was married to John Landseer, the young engraver, and thus became the mother of Thomas, 
 Charles, Edwin Henry {i.e. Sir Edwin), and four daughters. Bartolozzi engraved, in I794» 
 
 184. 
 
Third Room. 
 
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 the portrait of a Miss Emily Pott, after Reynolds, as "Thais." This was not the lady 
 now in question. Malone gave the price of this picture as 500 guineas. Of the four 
 daughters, Emma, now Mrs. Mackenzie, still survives, the last child of the gleaner in 
 this picture. "The Cottage Lady," and "Lady of the Cottage," sat to Reynolds in 
 October, 1 787. 
 
 Whole-length composition of three figures in peasant costume. To the right, a girl 
 seated with a spinning wheel before her, a dog by her side. In the centre, a standing figure 
 of a girl with a sheaf of corn upon her head ; to the left, a younger child is feeding 
 chickens. Exhibited at the British Institution in 1813, at the Academy in 1873. 
 
 Painted, 1788. Canvas, 94^ X 7oi inches. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi. 
 
 186. William Beckford, Esq,, M.P., the younger. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Hamilton, K. T. 
 
 This is the portrait for which William Beckford, the inheritor of Fonthill, and author 
 of " Vathek," sat to Reynolds on February 15, 1782, and continued to do so, alternating, as 
 Mr. Tom Taylor said, in Reynolds's painting throne with Mrs. Robinson or "Ferdita," 
 Colonel Tarleton, who as " Peter Pindar " declared, was painted in the act of 
 
 " — pulling on his boot so tight," 
 
 Lady Aylesford, and the beautiful Mrs. Baldwin. He was the only legitimate child of 
 Lord Mayor Beckford, see No. 179, who died in 1770, when the present subject was nine 
 years of age. Inheriting most of his father's vast property, he, when quite a boy, distin- 
 guished himself as a writer of satiric biographies of artists, published in 1 780 under the 
 title of "Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters;" he performed the "grand 
 tour," returned, sat to Reynolds for this picture, and in the following year married Lady 
 Margaret Gordon, daughter of the Earl of Aboyne. " Vathek " was published in this year, 
 and must have been written within a few months of his sitting to Reynolds. He averred 
 that ' ' it was written in three days and two nights of hard labour; I never took off my clothes 
 the whole time. " He was elected M. P. for Hindon in 1 790. He collected vast numbers of 
 works of art, a considerable portion of which were recently sold with the Hamilton Palace 
 Collection ; enlarged Fonthill ; saw its gigantic tower fall ; sold the place and built another 
 fairy palace on Lansdown Hill, near Bath. In 1834 he published an account of his travels, 
 called "Italy, Sketches of Spain and Portugal." In his later years he, having partially 
 realized some of his own visions of Eastern splendour, lived retired until his death in 1844. 
 Legends of his magnificence and taste for sumptuous forms of art are rife. According to 
 Reynolds's ledger, as reprinted by Cotton, this portrait was paid for thus, part of the memo- 
 randum is illegible: — "P"eb. 10, 1785, Mr. Wm. Beckford, bill paid 5 — , o, o." Susan 
 Euphemia, his daughter, and one of his co-heiresses, married Alexander, loth Duke of 
 Hamilton, see No. 99. 
 
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 Third Room. 
 
 See many details of Mr. Beckford's manner of life at Fonthill in the " Table Talk " of 
 Samuel Rogers, p. 218. 
 
 Bust ; three-quarters face, looking to the left ; black coat, white cravat. 
 
 Painted, 1782. Canvas, 26J X 20^ inches. 
 
 187. Francis, ist Marquis of Hertford, Lord Lieutenant of 
 Ireland, in his Peer's Robes. 
 
 Lent by the Marquis of Hertford. 
 
 Half-length ; star on coat, which is trimmed with fur ; the coat has a lappet, which 
 reaches to the shoulder ; powdered hair. 
 
 Painted, 1785. Canvas, 29^ X 245 inches. Engraved by John Watts, 1786. 
 
FOURTH ROOM. 
 
 1 88. Caricatures. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Devonshire^ K.G. 
 
 This is one of the groups of satirical portraits Reynolds made during his sojourn iLPu \J I { LJ ^ C 
 
 in Rome. It was exhibited at the British Institution in 1 831 as the property of Lord '■'^ i^*** N . JVJL'-v. -' 
 
 George Cavendish, and entitled "Portraits of distinguished Connoisseurs, painted at S.F. 4-<!!, W'lvit*'" 1^1 50 
 
 Rome." There is a similar work, the history of which will illustrate the whole category to ' 
 which this example belongs. It represented Mr. Ralph Howard, afterwards Viscount 
 Wicklow, while on the grand tour at Rome, attended by his "bear-leader," Dr. Benson. 
 He is about to step into a carriage, while his tutor calls his attention to a quarrel between 
 their courier and an innkeeper ; another servant has mounted a restive horse in order to 
 proceed as an avant-courier. This work was in the National Portrait Exhibition, 1867, 
 No. 346. It was in the British Institution in 1853, and there described as above by the 
 Earl of Wicklow. There is an engraving of it. Reynolds made several of these caricatures, 
 including a parody on Raphael's "School of Athens," containing, says the "Life of 
 Reynolds," by C. R. Leslie and T. Taylor, likenesses of English gentlemen then at Rome 
 in the attitudes of the great picture, made ridiculous by their exaggerated modem costumes. 
 The "School of Athens" was in 1819 in the hands of Mr. Joseph Henry, of Straffan, 
 Ireland. These satires were, according to the statement of J. Farrington, R. A., which was 
 derived from G. Marchi, Reynolds's assistant at Rome, and afterwards in London, described 
 thus : — " Reynolds painted several caricatures of English gentlemen at their own request, in 
 which unworthy employment, however, he was not long occupied." Malone said that the 
 travesty of the "School of Athens" was "done with the consent of the gentlemen 
 
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 Fourth Room. 
 
 represented." Reynolds left a list, printed in the above-named "Life," of the persons thus 
 satirized. 
 
 Whole-length composition of four figures ; in the foreground to the right, a dog 
 seated. 
 
 Painted, c. 1751. Canvas, 23! X 18 inches. Engraved by 
 
 189. Charles, Duke of Grafton, in the Robes of the Garter. 
 
 Lent by the Marquis of Hertford. 
 
 Small ; full length ; in peer's robes ; turned to the left ; a wand in the right hand. 
 Painted, 1756. Canvas, 3if X 20 inches. 
 
 190. William, 5th Duke of Devonshire. 
 
 Lent by the Earl Spencer ^ K.G. 
 
 Eldest son of the 4th Duke of Devonshire, born 1748? succeeded his father in 1764, 
 married, firstly, Georgiana, daughter of John, Earl Spencer, who died m 1806, see Nos. 81, 
 157, and 199; secondly. Lady E. Foster, No. 150, who died March 20, 1824. 
 
 Half length, face turned to the right ; brown coat, high collar ; background, a stormy 
 
 sky. 
 
 Painted, 1767. Canvas, 28^ x 23 inches. Engraved by J. Raphael Smith, 1776. 
 
 191. The Countess of Erroll. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Erroll. 
 
 According to his ledger. Sir J. Reynolds received Nov. 28, 1783, from " Lord Erroll," 
 ;^i63 5j., a total thus compounded for pictures : " Lord Erroll, 100/. ; for Lady Erroll, 25/. ; 
 for a copy, 25/. ; for mending a picture and a packing-case, 5/. " This referred to George, 
 14th Earl, son of No. 119. The lady was Elizabeth Jemima, born Blake of Ardfry, 
 Galway. The 14th Earl died in 1790. There is no mention of the price paid for the 
 whole-length figure of the 13th Earl of Erroll, No. 119. At the period in question, 
 that price would be about one hundred and fifty guineas. In 1783, ;^^ioo would probably 
 refer to a half-length figure on a canvas 4 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 4 inches. The account- 
 book Cotton printed, contains entries ranging from 1770 to 1 791 inclusive. The £2.^ for 
 Lady Erroll's portrait was, doubtless, a half payment, received according to the custom to 
 pay for likenesses in two instalments, the one at the beginning of the work, the^other at its 
 completion. As to the copy, the ^^25 would be the price for a picture not of the largest size ; 
 thus Lord Northington paid Reynolds for a copy of his head in the large portrait, twenty-six 
 
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 guineas; this was in 1788. In the same year the Archbishop of York paid;^42 "foracopy 
 of Lord Mansfield," which is a three-quarters length figure, seated in his robes ; this picture 
 Bartolozzi engraved. 
 
 Three-quarters length, looking to the right, in a peeress's robe, holding a coronet in 
 left hand. 
 
 Painted, 1783. Canvas, 49 X 394 inches. 
 
 192. The Schoolboy, Boy with a Portfolio. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Warwick. 
 
 This picture was among the Manchester Art-Treasures of 1857. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; front face ; holding with both hands a large volume, which he 
 carries under his arm. 
 
 Painted, 1777. Canvas, 35^ X 275 inches. Engraved by John Dean, 1777. . 
 
 193. A Female Head — Study for " Charity." 
 
 Lent by A. Anderdon Weston, Esq. 
 
 This is a study for a head of one of the Virtues, comprised in the New College 
 windows. 
 
 Bust ; with bent head turned to the left, white dress. 
 Painted, 1780. Canvas, 2i| X 172 inches. 
 
 194. Lady Romney. Should be Lady (Frances) Marsham, born 
 Wyndham. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Carnarvon. 
 
 Three-quarters length, turned to the left with the left hand raised ; white dress ; land- 
 scape background. The original, full length, is at the Mote, Maidstone. 
 Painted, . Canvas, 55 X 44 inches. 
 
 195. Mrs. Field. 
 
 Lent by E. R. Pearce, Esq. 
 
 Sister-in-law of the Rev. J. Reynolds, Rector of Stoke Charity, uncle of the 
 painter. This portrait probably preceded Reynolds's likeness of himself, No. 2. Lord 
 Normanton's " Boy Reading," which was in the Academy in 1883, is signed and dated 
 " 1747. Jo. Reynolds pinxt Nov." See "E. Gordon," &c.. No. 207. 
 
 Half length, in an oval ; white cap on the head ; white stomacher, over a drab dress. 
 
 Painted, 1748. Canvas, 29I X 24 inches. 
 
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 Pourtk Room. 
 
 196. Sir John Hussey-Delaval, Bart., afterwards Baron 
 Del AVAL. 
 
 Son of Sir F. Blake-Delaval, No. loi. 
 Bust, in an oval ; three-quarters face, turned to the left ; dark blue coat, with gold 
 facings ; powdered hair, white cravat. 
 
 Painted, 1768. Canvas, 285 X inches. Engraved by 
 
 197. The 2ND Marquis of Rockingham, and Edmund Burke, his 
 Secretary — unfinished. 
 
 This work, originally in the Thomond Collection, belonged to Thomas Phillips, R.A., 
 afterwards to Sir F. Grant, P.R.A., at whose sale, March 28, 1879, it was bought by Sir 
 F. Leighton, who retains it as one of the chief ornaments of his house. This picture 
 possesses extraordinaiy interest on account of its technical character, which illustrates 
 Reynolds's mode of painting at this period, and the animated actions of the figures, the 
 attitude of Burke in leaning eagerly forward being veiy expressive ; equally so is the energy 
 of his patron. Reynolds was probably dissatisfied with the defect of repose in the lines 
 of this composition, and therefore put the canvas aside. The accessories on our left were 
 painted by an assistant of exceptional skill, probably the one who depicted very deftly the 
 table in the portraits of Horace Walpole's grandnieces (see No. 27). 
 
 The chair represents the veritable sitters' chair of Reynolds's studio, the colour only 
 being altered. It was this seat which Mrs. Siddons, Lady Sarah Bunbury, and almost 
 all Sir Joshua's sitters occupied in Leicester Square. Its history is extremely interesting. 
 James Barry, R.A., had, during a part of the life of the P.R. A., been one of his most per- 
 tinacious assailants, and Reynolds was known to have been wounded by Barry's conduct and 
 manners in this respect. Nevertheless, on the death of Sir Joshua, Barry broke out in a warm 
 eulogium of the deceased. Lord and Lady Inchiquin (afterwards Marquis and Marchioness 
 of Thomond), Sir Joshua's representatives, gave this chair to Barry in acknowledg- 
 ment, and Barry (see the letter in Dr. Fryer's biography of this artist) returned his warmest 
 thanks for the gift, and thus authenticated the chair : " Alas ! this chair, that has had such a 
 glorious career of fortune, instrumental as it has been in giving the most advantageous stability 
 to the otherwise fleeting graces of a Lady Sarah Bunbury or a Waldegrave (see Nos. 136, 
 152), or in perpetuating the negligent, honest exterior of the authors of the ' Rambler,' the 
 ' Traveller, ' and of almost every one whom the public admiration gave a currency for abilities, 
 beauty, rank, or fashion : for the very chair that is immortalized in ' Mrs. Siddons, as the 
 Tragic Muse,' where it will have as much celebrity as the chair of Pindar, which for so 
 many ages was shown in the porch of Olympia," &c., Jan. 30, 1794. 
 
 Lent by Sir Frederic Leighton, P.R. A. 
 
Pourfk Room. 
 
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 Reynolds did not paint this chair in "The Tragic Muse," but a monumental seat, 
 appropriate to the subject of the picture. No doubt Mrs. Siddons sat in the chair. After 
 Barry's death this chair passed to his biographer, Dr. Fryer, at whose sale, when it was 
 on the point of being Icnocked down for half a guinea, J. T. Smith (see "Nollekens and 
 his Times," ii., p. 68) bought it at a larger price for Sir Thomas Lawrence ; on his death, 
 it passed to Sir M. Archer Shee, at whose sale it realized £^ 1 5 j. 6d. from Sir C. Eastlake ; 
 the next possessor was Sir Francis Grant, at whose sale, March 28, 1879, it was bought 
 for about £^o by Sir F. Leighton, the sixth President of the Royal Academy who has 
 owned the relic. To secure it for the future, Sir Frederic gave it to the Royal Academy, 
 and that body deposited it in the Diploma Gallery of their institution, with other relics of 
 Sir Joshua. 
 
 Two figures seated at a table ; the marquis (see No. 162) with his left hand in his 
 bosom, his right hand on a scroll of paper; E. Burke (see No. 65) leans on a table and 
 holds a pen ; a column with a draped curtain ; landscape background. 
 
 Painted, 1766. Canvas, 56^ X 67 inches. 
 
 198. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P. R. A. 
 
 Lent by the Lord Houghton. 
 
 i| 199. Margaret Georgiana, born Poyntz, Countess Spencer, 
 AND Georgiana Spencer, her Daughter — afterwards 
 Duchess of Devonshire — unfinished. 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. 
 
 Half length, in large hat ; turned to the left ; the face in shadow. 
 Painted, 1780. Canvas, 30 X 24 inches. 
 
 Two heads, on a plain canvas. See also Nos. 81 and 157, 
 Painted, 1769. Canvas, 29 J X 24:! inches. 
 
 200. 
 
 Mr. Bourdieu. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Edgar Wills. 
 
 Three-quarters length ; seated ; turned to right. 
 Painted, 1765. Canvas, 50 X 40 inches. 
 
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 Foitrth Room. 
 
 201. George, 2nd Earl of Warwick, when a Boy. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Warwick. 
 
 This young gentleman was the eldest son of Francis Greville, the 8th Baron War- 
 wick (first Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick), and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord 
 Archibald Hamilton (younger son of the Duke of Hamilton); he was born September i6, 
 1746, and married, secondly, Miss Henrietta (eldest daughter of Richard Vernon, Esq.), 
 represented by Sir Joshua in the large Bedford family-piece which is now at Woburn, and 
 called "St. George and the Dragon." 
 
 Three-quarters length ; full face ; blue coat ; long buff waistcoat ; holding a book in his 
 right hand. 
 
 202. Field-Marshal Conway, when a Boy. (Francis, Viscount 
 Beauchamp.) 
 
 See No. 13, which is not the same person. As the Field-Marshal was born in 1720, 
 he could not have sat to Reynolds as a boy. He was Horace Walpole's particular friend 
 and frequent correspondent, and brother to the 1st Marquis of Hertford. This portrait is a 
 small replica of a picture belonging to the Earl of Carnarvon, and it represents Francis, 
 Viscount Beauchamp, son of the Earl of Hertford, elder brother of No. 13, and 2nd 
 Marquis of Hertford. 
 
 Bust, in Van Dyck dress ; face turned to the left. 
 
 Painted, 1759. Canvas, 24 X 18 inches. 
 
 203. Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, Lord of the Admiralty. 
 
 Admiral Saunders, one of Keppel's captains, was commonly known as " Yellow Jack," 
 and commanded the squadron acting in the St. Lawrence in combination with General 
 Wolfe during the attack on Quebec in 1759 ; he sat to Reynolds in March, 1760, and later. 
 
 One of Lord Anson's lieutenants; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1766; died 1775, 
 buried in Westminster Abbey. 
 
 Three-quarters length, in naval uniform ; his right arm and hand resting on an anchor ; 
 his hat under his left arm ; left hand on the hilt of his sword. 
 
 Painted, 1765. Canvas, 50 X 40 inches. Engraved by James McArdell. 
 
 Painted, 1756. Canvas, 35 X 275 inches. Engraved by A. Sanders. 
 
 204. The Head of the Infant Samuel — unfinished. 
 
 See No. 78. 
 
 Painted, 1782, Canvas, 285 X 23 inches. 
 
Fourth Room. 
 
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 205. Maria Elizabeth Archer. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Northbrook. 
 
 Half length, full face ; hands crossed in front ; flowered dress, short sleeves. 
 Painted, . Canvas, 29 X 24 inches. 
 
 206. The Rev. Zachariah Mudge, A sketch on panel for the 
 three-quarters length portrait. Formerly in the possession 
 of Mr. Rosedew. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Gwatkin. 
 
 The Rev. Zachariah Mudge, Prebendary of Exeter, and Vicar of St. Andrew's, 
 Plymouth, was, according to Dr. Johnson's obituary notice in " The London Chronicle," " a 
 man equally venerable for his virtues and abilities, a beloved companion, a revered pastor." 
 Edmund Burke wrote to Edmond Malone, No. 108, that the painter owed " 'his first dis- 
 position to generalize, and view things in the abstract,' to old Mr. Mudge, Prebendary of 
 Exeter, and brother (father) to the celebrated mechanick of that name." " He had been 
 originally a dissenting minister, a description which at that time bred very considerable 
 men." Mr. Mudge's sermons were published in 1739. " On conversing vi^ith Mr. Mudge 
 I found great traces of Sir Joshua Reynolds in him, and, if I may say so, much of the 
 manner of the master."— Burke, as above. May 4th, 1797- If Mudge taught Reynolds 
 to "generalize," his influence on the art of the painter must have been great. He died 
 April 3, 1769, having sat to Sir Joshua three years before. J, Watson engraved a half- 
 length portrait of him, after Reynolds. 
 
 Dr. John Mudge, an eminent physician of Plymouth, whom Reynolds painted in 1753, 
 before he sailed with Commodore Keppel, No. 181, to the Mediterranean, was one of the 
 two sons of the Prebendary. The "mechanick" was Thomas Mudge. See No. 225. 
 
 The Rev. Z. Mudge's portrait was at Leeds in 1868. 
 
 Small half length ; head turned to the right, and with the right hand raised to the face- 
 
 Painted, 1766. Panel, 17 X 145 inches. Engraved by J. Grozer, 1790, and William 
 Dickinson. 
 
 207. Edward Gordon, of Bromley, His Sister Mrs, Miles, 
 AND Her Husband. 
 
 Lent by Captain LLerbert Gordon. 
 
 This picture was, according to the records of the owner's family, painted by Reynolds 
 when he was quite young at Mr. Edward Gordon's house at Bromley, the artist being 
 
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 Fourth Room. 
 
 intimate with the family of the sitter, and their frequent visitor. Such being the case, it is 
 the oldest dateable picture here. 
 
 Painted, I743-S- Canvas, 28 X 40 inches. 
 
 208. The Lace Makers. Properly called "Morning Amusement." 
 
 Lent by H. E. Surtees, Esq. 
 
 Composition of six figures seated round a table. 
 
 Painted, . Canvas, 24 X 28 inches. Engraved by J. Grozer. 
 
 209. Christiana, Widow of Colonel Stewart, afterwards Wife 
 OF Rev. George Laughton, D.D. 
 
 Lent by Lady Erskine May. 
 
 Her son, General Richard Stewart, commanded a brigade at the battle of Talavera. 
 Painted, . Canvas, 29^ X 24 inches. Engraved by J. Grozer, 1796. 
 
 209*. Mrs. Fitz-Herbert. 
 
 Lent by Seymour Dawson Darner, Esq. 
 
 The reputed wife of the Prince of Wales (George IV.). 
 Painted, 1786-8. Canvas, oval, 30 X 26 inches. 
 
 210. Oil SKETCH, FOR A PORTRAIT. 
 
 Lent by E. Fagon Watson, Esq. 
 
 Full length ; elbow leaning on a pedestal. 
 Painted, . Canvas, 6f X 4 inches. 
 
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DRAWINGS, RELICS, ETC. 
 
 211. A Study in Pencil — squared for enlarging. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Hamilton. 
 
 212. Studies of Nude Children. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Hamilton. 
 
 213. Amorino — A Study in Black Chalk. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Hamilton. 
 
 214. A Seated Figure. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Hamilton. 
 
 214A. A Study of a Girl's Head. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Hamilton.* 
 
 215. Sketch in Indian Ink. 
 
 Lent by E. R. Pearce. 
 
 216. Four Drawings from Sketch Book. 
 
 Lent by Canon Furse. 
 
 * The sketches lent by Dr. Hamilton were bought at the sale of the Marchioness of Thomond, 
 Sir Joshua's niece. 
 
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 Drawings, Relics, &c. 
 
 217. Four Drawings from Sketch Book. 
 
 Lent by Canon Furse. 
 
 218. Four Drawings from Sketch Book. 
 
 Lent by Canon Furse. 
 
 219. Four Drawings from Sketch Book. 
 
 Lent by Canon Furse. 
 
 220. Four Drawings from Sketch Book. 
 
 Lent by Canon Furse. 
 
 221. Four Drawings from Sketch Book. 
 
 Lent by Canon Furse. 
 
 221*. Study OF A Head. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Hamilton. 
 
 222. Two Sketch Books belonging to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 
 
 containing drawings and notes by his hand. 
 
 Lefit by F. Locker, Esq. 
 
 223. Case containing Personal Objects belonging to Sir 
 
 Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. J . C. R. Colomb and Miss L. Palmer. 
 
 These articles comprise the following relics of extraordinary value : — 
 
 1. Original pen-and-ink sketch by Sir Joshua Reynolds, dravra when a boy on the 
 back of a Latin exercise, with a note by his father : " This is drawn by Joshua in school 
 out of pure idleness." A copy from the "Jesuits' Perspective." 
 
 2. Pen-and-ink sketch of the interior of a library, and a sketch of unfinished figures. 
 
 3. Pen-and-ink sketch of a perch, with note in Sir Joshua's father's handwriting : 
 drawn not from another picture, but from the life." 
 
 4. Sir Joshua's card counters and box. N.B. — The whole name " Sir Joshua Reynolds " 
 is contained in the monogram on each counter. 
 
Drawings, Relics, &c. 
 
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 5. Sir Joshua's snuff-box — immortalized in Goldsmith's " Retaliation." 
 
 6. Sir Joshua's spectacles — those represented in Nos. I, 3, &c. (Lent by Miss Palmer.) 
 
 7. An original letter to Boswell referring to a dinner party. 
 
 224. Snuff Box and Lace Ruffles belonging to Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds. 
 
 Lent by E. R. Pearce, Esq. 
 
 22^. Watch, Chain, and Seals. 
 
 Emt by the Rev, William Johnson. 
 
 The watch was made by Thomas Mudge, see No. 206. 
 
 226. Loving Cup belonging to Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. J . C. R. Colomb. 
 
 227. Sir Joshua's Palette Knives. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. G. F. Irving Graham. 
 
 228. Academy Medal issued under the Presidency of Sir 
 
 Joshua Reynolds. Date, 1773. 
 
 Lent by Miss Palmer. 
 
 229. Sir Joshua's Diploma as a Royal Academician. 
 
 Lent by Henry Graves^ Esq. 
 
 230. Diploma of Sir Thomas Lawrence. The first diploma 
 
 sighed by Sir Joshua Reynolds as P.R.A. 
 
 Lent by Henry Graves, Esq. 
 
 231. Miniature Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Lent by Canon Furse. 
 
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX. 
 
 1743-5- 
 
 Edward Gordon, his Sister Mrs. Miles, and 
 HER Husband. 207. 
 
 1748. 
 
 Mrs. Field. 195. 
 
 C. 1751. 
 
 Caricatures, 188. 
 
 1753- 
 
 Commodore The Hon. Augustus Keppel, 
 R.N. 181. 
 
 1754- 
 
 Charles, 9th Lord Cathcart, K.T. 137. 
 1755- 
 
 Admiral Lord Anson, The Circum- 
 navigator. 6. 
 
 Jane Hamilton, Lady Cathcart, and her 
 Daughter. 71. 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Montagu, Duchess of 
 Buccleuch. 77. 
 
 Frances, Countess of Essex. 83. 
 
 Lady Caroline Keppel. 123. 
 Alderman William Beckford, M.P. 179. 
 
 1756. 
 
 Dr. Johnson. 97. 
 
 Charles, Duke of Grafton. 189. 
 
 George, Earl of Warwick, when a Boy. 201. 
 
 1758. 
 
 Colonel The Hon. William Keppel. 14. 
 
 Elizabeth (Gunning), Duchess of Hamilton 
 and Argyll. 26. 
 
 Lady Anne Lennox, Countess of Albe- 
 marle. 67. 
 
 Caroline, Lady Holland. 74. 
 
 Sir Francis Blake-Delaval. ioi. 
 
 William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. 
 161. 
 
 William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. 
 178. 
 
 T759- 
 
 Admiral The Hon. John Byron, when 
 
 Captain. 10. 
 1ST Marquis of Hertford. 37. 
 Henry, Earl of Sussex. 72. 
 
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 Chronological Index. 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Keppel, afterwards Mar- 
 chioness OF Tavistock, hi. 
 
 Maria, Countess Waldegrave, afterwards 
 Duchess of Gloucester. 152. 
 
 Lady Selina Hastings. 169. 
 
 Mrs. Moore. 184. 
 
 Viscount Beauchamp. 202. 
 
 1760. 
 
 Commodore, afterwards Admiral and Vis- 
 count Keppel. 44. 
 
 1761. 
 
 Charlotte Fish. 49. 
 Miss Jacobs. 79. 
 Kitty Fisher, as " Danae." no. 
 James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, K.G. 144. 
 The Duchess of Gloucester, when Countess 
 Waldegrave. 136. 
 
 1762. 
 
 The Countess of Mexborough, and her 
 
 Son. 113. 
 John, 8th Earl of Rothes, K.T. 126. 
 
 1763- 
 
 John, 3rd Earl of Bute, K.G., and his 
 
 Secretary. 52. 
 John, 3RD Earl of Bute, K.G. 59. 
 James, 13TH Earl of Erroll. 119. 
 The Hon. William Legge. 131. 
 
 1764. 
 
 Mrs. Abington, as "Miss Prue," in "Love 
 
 FOR Love." 7. 
 Master T. Lister, afterwards Lord Rib- 
 
 blesdale. 20. 
 Mrs. Collier, AS "C^LiA." 134. 
 The Hon. George Legge. 149. 
 The Countess of Pembroke. 164. 
 
 1765- 
 
 Colonel The Hon. William Keppel. 28. 
 George Keppel, 3RD Earl of Albemarle, 
 
 K.G. 54. 
 Miss B. Lister. 91. 
 
 The Earl of Pembroke and his Son. 159. 
 Field. Marshal Jeffery, ist Lord Amherst. 
 174. 
 
 Mr. Bourdieu. 200. 
 
 Admiral Sir C. Saunders. 203. 
 
 1765-6. 
 
 The Lady Stanhope. 125. 
 
 1766. 
 
 John, ist Lord Boringdon. 16. 
 The Countess of Egremont. 33. 
 Warren Hastings. 102. 
 The Rev. Zachariah Mudge. 206. 
 Francis Russell, Marquis of Tavistock. 
 151- 
 
 The Marquis of Rockingham, and Burke, 
 his Secretary. 197. 
 
 1767. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Sir John Cust, Bart. 38. 
 
 Anthony Chamier, M.P. 40. 
 
 Miss Cholmondeley. 57. 
 
 John Simpson, Esq., of Bradley. 140. 
 
 William, 5th Duke of Devonshire. 190. 
 
 1768. 
 
 Sir Walter Calverley Blackett. 68. 
 ? Field Marshal Jeffery, ist Lord Amherst. 
 120. 
 
 Sir Thomas Acland. 133. 
 
 Sir John Hussey Delay al, 196. 
 
 1769. 
 
 Georgiana, Countess Spencer, and her 
 Daughter. 157. 
 
Chronological Index. 
 
 95 
 
 Philip YoRKE, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke. 158. 
 Miss Whitbread. 171. 
 Georgiana, Countess Spencer, and her 
 Daughter. 199. 
 
 1770. 
 
 Mrs. Pelham, feeding Chickens. 9. 
 Lord George Seymour, when a boy. 13. 
 William Henry, Duke of Gloucester. 47. 
 Tan-che-qua. 51. 
 
 Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. 
 105. 
 
 1771. 
 
 Portrait of Francis Bartolozzi, R.A. 85. 
 Venus chiding Cupid. 88. 
 The Hon. Mrs. Seymour Damer. 98. 
 General Hanger. io8. 
 The Countess of Ancrum, afterwards 
 Marchioness of Lothian. 129. 
 
 1772. 
 
 Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch, and her 
 
 Child. 41. 
 Stephen Sullivan, Esq. 135. 
 The Hon. Mrs. Parker, afterwards Lady 
 
 Boringdon. 138. 
 
 1773- 
 
 Emilia Vansittart. 25. 
 The Strawberry Girl. 86. 
 Portrait of Miss Ridge. 95, 
 Unfinished Portrait of Miss Ridge. 116. 
 Miss Searle, WITH A Lamb. 121. 
 Mrs. Hartley, with her Child. 139. 
 Niece of Edmund Burke's Lawyer, Miss 
 
 Hickey. 147. 
 Theresa, Lady Boringdon, and her Son. 
 
 163. 
 
 ^774- 
 Joseph Baretti. 73. 
 
 The 2ND Marquis of Rockingham. K.G. 162. 
 
 I77S- 
 
 Mrs. Morris. 89. 
 
 1776. 
 
 Master Wynn, as "The Infant St. John." 
 18. 
 
 John, Viscount Mountstuart, Baron Car- 
 diff. 24. 
 
 George John, Viscount Althorp. 69. 
 Lord Porchester, as an Infant Bacchus, 
 
 WITH Lions. 76. 
 Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. 141. 
 The Marquis of Titchfield. 172. 
 
 1777. 
 
 Group, Portraits, Members of Dilettanti 
 
 Society. (,No. i.) 21. 
 Group, Members of Dilettanti Society. 
 
 {No. 2.) 32. 
 ? The " Young Fortune Tellers." 46. 
 Lady Henrietta Antonia Herbert, Countess 
 
 OF Powis. 50. 
 Lady Katherine Powlett. 63. 
 Lady Jane Lindsay. 82. 
 The Schoolboy. 192. 
 
 1778. 
 
 Miss Theophila Palmer. 17. 
 
 " Miranda," or " Ariadne." 70. 
 
 Charles William Henry Scott, Earl of 
 
 Dalkeith, 4TH Duke of Buccleuch. 
 
 96. 
 
 Charles William Henry Scott, ^Earl of 
 Dalkeith, 4TH Duke of Buccleuch. 
 132. 
 
 Master and Miss Parker. 145. 
 
 1779. 
 
 Lady William Gordon. 35. 
 George, Marquis Townshend. 61. 
 
96 
 
 Chronological Index. 
 
 Lady Gertrude Fitz-Patrick. ' ' La Collina." 
 IS3- 
 
 Lady Beaumont. 183. 
 
 1780. 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, P. R. A. 5. 
 
 Prince William Frederick, 2nd Duke of 
 
 Gloucester and Edinburgh. 53. 
 The Shepherd Boy. 166. 
 Lord Richard Cavendish. 176. 
 AFemaleHead. Study for "Charity." 193. 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R. A. 198. 
 
 1781. 
 
 Mrs. Nesbitt, AS " Circe." ii. 
 
 The Ladies Elizabeth Laura, Charlotte 
 
 Maria, and Anna Horatia Waldegrave. 
 
 27. 
 
 Edward, Lord Thurlow. 64. 
 
 Mr. R. L. Gwatkin. 80. 
 
 "Offie" Palmer, Mrs. R. L. Gwatkin. 84. 
 
 Mrs. Robinson, " Perdita." A Study. 100. 
 
 Mrs. Thrale and her Daughter. 127. 
 
 1782. 
 
 The Hon. Mrs. Petee Beckford. 31. 
 The Calling of Samuel. 78. 
 Richard Burke. 93. 
 
 Alexander, ioth Duke of Hamilton, K.G. 
 
 AND F.R.S. 99. 
 Lavinia Bingham, afterwards Countess 
 
 Spencer. 124. 
 William Beckford Esq., M.P., the younger. 
 
 186. 
 
 The Head of the Infant Samuel. (Un- 
 finished.) 204. 
 
 1783- 
 
 The Infant Academy. 62. 
 
 ? Sir Abraham Hume Bart, F.R.S. 130. 
 
 Miss Fanny Kemble, afterwards Mrs. Twiss. 
 142. 
 
 The Countess of Erroll. 191. 
 
 1784. 
 
 Muscipula. 29. 
 
 Mrs. Siddons, as "The Tragic Muse." 55. 
 General Sir William Pawcett. 58. 
 Lavinia, Countess Spencer, and Viscount 
 
 Althorp. 60. 
 The Studious Boy. 90. 
 Lavinia, Countess Spencer. h8. 
 Moses in the Bulrushes, 155. 
 Lady (Amelia) Hume. 173. 
 The Marchioness of Thomond. 177. 
 
 1785- 
 
 Guardian Angel, The. 36. 
 The Nymph. 39. 
 
 The Adoration OF THE Shepherds. 156. 
 
 W. Joshua Sharp. 168. 
 
 Francis, ist Marquis of Hertford. 187. 
 
 1786. 
 
 Sketch for " Robinetta." 34. 
 
 The Duchess of Devonshire and her 
 
 Child. 81. 
 John Charles, Viscount Althorp, aged 
 
 four years. 87. 
 Catherine, Lady Cornewall. 103. 
 Lady Anne Bingham. 112. 
 Sophia Campbell, Wife of Edward, 2oth 
 
 Baron DE Clifford. 117. 
 Edmond Malone. 148. 
 Frances, Marchioness of Camden, when 
 
 Lady Bayham. 43. 
 
 1787. 
 
 Sir George Beaumont, Bart., M.P. 8. 
 Felina. 92. 
 
Chronological Index. 
 
 97 
 
 Lady Amelia Spencer, daughter of the 
 
 Duke of Marlborough. 104. 
 Lady Elizabeth Foster. 150. 
 Master Philip Yorke. 167. 
 
 1788. 
 
 Miss Gwatkin as " Simplicity." 12. 
 Babe in the Wood. 22. 
 The Infant Hercules. 56. 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R. A. io6. 
 A Landscape, view from Richmond Hill. 
 16S. 
 
 The Infant Hercules. 175. 
 
 The Gleaners, or "The Cottagers." 185. 
 
 Mrs. Fitz-Herbert. 209*. 
 
 1789. 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R. A. i. 
 
 Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 30. 
 
 The Hon. Miss Frances Harris, with a 
 
 Dog. 7S. 
 Mr. Tomkins. 114. 
 
 William, Marquis of Lansdowne. 146. 
 James, 5th Earl of Loudoun. 154. 
 Cymon and Iphigenia. 160. 
 
 Pictures not dated. 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R. A. 2. 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds. 3. 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R. A., taken in Old 
 Age. 4. 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds' Black Servant. 15. 
 
 Portrait of a Lady. 19. 
 
 Old Man, wearing a Cap. 23. 
 
 A Negro. 42. 
 
 The Match Boy. 45. 
 
 Mother and Child. 48. 
 
 Edmund Burke. 65. 
 
 Girl with a Dead Dove. 66. 
 
 Edwin. 94. 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R. A. 107. 
 Lady in a Black Hat. 109. 
 Cupid. 115. 
 
 Charles Rollin, the Historian. 122. 
 
 A Study, " The Girl with Red Hair." 128. 
 
 David Garrick. 143. 
 
 The Marquis of Huntly, after Van Dyck. 
 170. 
 
 Angelica Kauffman, R.A. 180. 
 Portrait of a Lady. 182. 
 Lady Romney. 194. 
 Maria Elizabeth Archer. 205. 
 The Lace Makers. 208. 
 Christiana, Widow of Colonel Stewart. 
 209. 
 
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 INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Agnew, William, Esq., M.P. io8, 148. 
 
 Albemarle, The Earl of. 14, 28, 44, 54, 67, iii, 117, 123, 151, i 
 
 Alford, The Lady Marian. 96. 
 
 Amherst, The Earl. 174. 
 
 Arts, The Royal Academy of. 5. 
 
 Ashburton, Louisa, Lady. 127. 
 
 Bath, The Marquis of. 64. 
 
 Beaumont, Sir George, Bart. 8, 42, 183. 
 
 Beaumont, W. B., Esq. 89. 
 
 Bentinck, Right Hon. George Cavendish, M.P. 15, 142. 
 bischoffsheim, h. l., esq. 49, 5 i, 1 29. 
 Bright, Mrs. 171. 
 
 Brownlow, The Earl. 38, 107, 130, 173. 
 BuccLEUCH, The Duke of, K.G. 41, 77, 132. 
 Butler, S., Esq. 33. 
 Byron, William, Esq. 10. 
 
 Carlingford, The Lord. 27, 136, 144. 
 
 Carnarvon, The Earl of. 76, 194, 204. 
 
 Castletown, The Dowager Lady, of Upper -Ossory. 39, 153. 
 
 Cathcart, The Earl. 71, 137. 
 
 Cleveland, The Duke of. 63. 
 
 Colomb, Mrs. J. C R. 223, 226, 
 
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 Index of Contributors. 
 
 Crawford and Balcarres, The Earl of. 82. 
 CuRRiE, George Wodehouse, Esq. 17. 
 
 Damer, Seymour D., Esq. 209*. 
 Darnley, The Earl of. 75, 78. 
 Dartmouth, Earl of. 131, 149. 
 
 Devonshire, K.G., The Duke of. 81, 150, 176, 178, 188, 199. 
 Dilettanti Society, The. 21, 32, 105. 
 DoNiNGTON, The Lord. 72, 154, 169. 
 Duff-Gordon, Miss Alice. 103. 
 
 Erroll, The Earl of. 119, 191. 
 Essex, The Earl of. 83. 
 Evans, Thomas, Esq. 70, 122. 
 
 Fawcett, W. W., Esq. 58. 
 Feversham, The Earl of. 92. 
 Fitzwilliam, The Earl. 156, 161, 166, 175. 
 Ford, Mrs. 121. 
 
 FuRSE, The Rev. Canon. 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 231. 
 
 Glyn, The Hon. Pascoe C, Esq. 120. 
 Gordon, Captain Herbert, 207. 
 Gosling, Robert, Esq. 185. 
 Graham, Mrs. G. F. Irving. 227. 
 Granville, K.G., The Earl. 100. 
 Graves, Henry, Esq. 229, 230. 
 Grenfell, W. H., Esq. 170. 
 GwATKiN, Mrs. 2, 80, 84, 106, 177, 206. 
 GwATKiN, S. Beauchamp, Esq. 61. 
 
 Hamilton, The Duke of, K.T. 26, 31, 99, 179, 186. 
 Hamilton, Dr. 116, 118, 184, 211, 212, 213, 214, 221*. 
 Hardwicke, The Earl of. 158, 162, 167. 
 Haworth, Frederick, Esq. 95. 
 
 Hertford, The Marquis of. 13, 35, 37, 79, 187, 189, 202. 
 Hippisley, H., Esq. 135. 
 
Index of Contributors. 
 
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 Holland, The Lady, 29, 73, 74. 
 Houghton, The Lord. 66, 198. 
 HuTH, Louis, Esq. i, 104, 143. 
 
 Johnson, The Rev. William. 225. 
 Knighton, Sir William W., Bart. 134. 
 
 Leeds, The Duke of. 3, 36, 94, 155. 
 Leighton, Sir Frederic, P.R.A. 197. 
 Lichfield, The Earl of. 6, 203. 
 Locker, R, Esq. 222. 
 
 London, The Corporation of the City of. i 14. 
 
 MacDougall, Alexander, Esq. 40. 
 
 Mackenzie, Major-General R. 19, 128. 
 
 Malcolm, John, Esq. 168. 
 
 Marlborough, The Duke of. 46. 
 
 Maxted, William, Esq. 65. 
 
 May, Lady Erskine. 209. 
 
 Mexborough, The Earl OF. 113,125. . 
 
 Mills, Sir Charles, Bart. 7, 147. 
 
 MoRLEY, The Earl of. 16, 85, 133, 138, 145, 146, 163. 
 
 Morrison, Charles, Esq. 97. 
 
 Mount-Temple, The Lord. 62. 
 
 Northbrook, The Earl of. 88, 139, 165, 205. 
 NoRTHWiCK, The Lord. 56, 102. 
 
 Palmer, Miss. 223, 228. 
 Payne, Selwyn, Esq. 45. 
 Pearce, E. R., Esq. 195, 215, 224. 
 Pembroke, The Earl of. 159, 164. 
 Portarlington, The Earl of. 98. 
 Portland, The Duke of. 172. 
 
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 Index of Contributors. 
 
 Powis, The Earl of. 50. 
 
 Pym, Horace N., Esq. 4, 22, 30, 34. 
 
 H.M. The Queen. 160. 
 
 Ravensworth, The Earl of. 140. 
 Ribblesdale, The Lord. 20,91. 
 RiDDELL, Mrs. J. Buchanan. 57. 
 Robinson, J. C, Esq. iio. 
 Rothes, The Countess of. 126. 
 
 Sidebotham, Joseph, Esq., F.S.A. 90. 
 
 Spencer, The Earl, K.G. 43, 60, 69, 87, 93, 112, 124, 157, 190. 
 Stanley of Alderley, The Dowager Lady. ii. 
 Surtees, H. E., Esq. 208. 
 
 Thornton, John, Esq. 25. 
 Trevelyan, Sir Alfred, Bart. 68. 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 53. 
 
 Vivian, Colonel. 115. 
 
 Waldegrave, The Earl. 47, 152. 
 
 Warwick, The Earl of. 192, 201. 
 
 Waterford, Louisa, Marchioness of. ioi, 
 
 Watson, E. Faqon. 12, 180, 210. 
 
 Wayne, Rev. W. H. 23, 182. 
 
 Wemyss and March, The Earl of. 196. 
 
 Westminster, K.G., The Duke of. 48, 55- 
 
 Weston, A. Anderdon, Esq. 193. 
 
 Wharncliffe, The Earl of. 24, 52, 59. 
 
 Wills, Mrs. Edgar. 200. 
 
 Wray, Colonel Copley. 86. 
 
 Wynn, Sir Watkin Williams, Bart., M.P. 18. 
 
 Yarborough, The Earl of. 9, 141. 
 * * * 109. 
 
INDEX OF THE PICTURES. 
 
 Abington, Mrs. 7. 
 AcLAND, Sir Thomas. 133. 
 Albemarle, The Countess of. 67. 
 Albemarle, George Keppel, 3RD Earl of. 54. 
 Althorp, George John, Viscount. 69. 
 Althorp, John Charles, Viscount. 87. 
 Amherst, F. M. Jeffery, ist Lord. 120, 174. 
 Ancrum, The Countess of. 129. 
 Anson, Lord. 6. 
 
 A Portrait — Lady in black cloak and white hat. 147. 
 Archer, Maria Elizabeth. 205. 
 " Ariadne." 70. 
 
 Aufrere, Miss, see "Pelham, Mrs." 
 
 ,Babe in the Wood, Sketch for. 22. 
 Baretti, Joseph. 73. 
 Bartolozzi, Francis, R.A. 85. 
 Beauchamp, Viscount. 202. 
 Beaumont, Lady. 183. 
 Beaumont, Sir G. 8. 
 Beckford, Alderman. 179. 
 Beckford, William. 186. 
 Beckford, The Hon. Mrs. Peter. 31. 
 Bingham, The Lady Anne. 112. 
 
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 Index of thS Pictures. 
 
 Blackett, Sir Walter Calverley. 68. 
 BoRiNGDON, John, ist Lord. i6. 
 BoRiNGDON, The Lady (Hon. Mrs. Parker). 138, 163. 
 Bourdieu, Mr. 200. 
 
 BuccLEucH, Charles William Henry, Earl of Dalkeith, 4th Duke of. 
 96, 132. 
 
 Buccleuch, The Duchess of, and Child. 41. 
 BuccLEucH, The Lady Elizabeth Montagu, Duchess of. 77. 
 Burke, Edmund. 65, 197. 
 Burke, Richard. 93. 
 
 Bute, John, 3RD Earl of, and his Secretary, Mr. Jenkinson. 52, 59. 
 Byron, Admiral the Hon. John. 10. 
 
 C^lia lamenting her Dead Sparrow (Mrs. Collyer or "Chloe "). 134. 
 
 Camden, Frances, Marchioness. 43. 
 
 Caricatures. 188. 
 
 Cathcart, Jane Hamilton, Lady. 71. 
 
 Cathcart, The 9TH Lord. 137. 
 
 Cavendish, Lord Richard. 176. 
 
 Chamier, Anthony. 40. 
 
 Charity, Study for. 193. 
 
 Chloe. 134. 
 
 Cholmondeley, Miss. 57. 
 
 Clifford, Sophia Campbell, The Lady De-. 117. 
 CoLERAiNE, Lord (General Hanger), 108. 
 Cole, The Lady Frances (Miss Harris). 75. 
 
 Collyer, Mrs., as " Caelia lamenting her Dead Sparrow," or " Chloe." 134. 
 
 Collina (Lady Gertrude Fitz-Patrick). 153. 
 
 Conway, Field-Marshal (Viscount Beauchamp). 202. 
 
 CORNEWALL, ThE LADY CATHERINE. I03. 
 
 Cumberland, The Duke of. i 6 i, 178, 
 
 Cupid, 115. 
 
 CusT, Sir John. 38. 
 
 Cymon and Iphigenia. 160. 
 
Index of the Pictures. 
 
 105 
 
 Dalkeith, Charles William Henry Scott, Earl OF(Duke of Buccleuch). 96, 132. 
 Damer, Mrs. Seymour. 98. 
 Delaval, Sir Francis Blake, ioi. 
 Delaval, Sir John Hussey. 196. 
 
 Devonshire, Margaret Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of, and Child. 81, 157. 
 Devonshire, William, Duke of. 190. 
 Dilettanti Society, Members of. 21, 32. 
 
 Drawings. 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 
 Edwin. 94. 
 
 Eglington, Lady Jane Lindsay, Countess of. 82. 
 
 Egremont, The Countess of. 33. 
 
 Erroll, The Countess of. 191. 
 
 Erroll, The Earl of. 119. 
 
 Essex, Frances, The Countess of. 83. 
 
 Fawcett, General Sir William. 58. 
 
 Felina. 92. 
 
 Field, Mrs. 195. 
 
 Fish, Charlotte. 49. 
 
 Fisher, Kitty, as "Danae." 110. - 
 
 Fitz-Herbert, Mrs. 209*. 
 
 FiTZ- Patrick, The Lady Gertrude (CoUina). 153. 
 
 Fortune-Teller, The Young (Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer). 46. 
 Foster, The Lady Elizabeth. 150. 
 
 Garrick, David. 143. 
 
 Girl with a Dead Dove — Lesbia. 66. 
 
 Girl with a Lamb (Miss Searle). 121. 
 
 Gleaners, The. 185. 
 
 Gloucester, Prince Frederick of. 53. 
 
 Gloucester, The Duchess of (Maria, Countess Waldegrave). 136, 152. 
 Gloucester, William Henry, Duke of. 47. 
 Gordon, Edward. 207. 
 
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 Index of the Pictures. 
 
 Gordon, Lady Frances. 35. 
 Grafton, Duke of. 189. 
 Guardian Angel, The. 36. 
 
 Gunning, Miss Elizabeth (Duchess of Hamilton). 26. 
 Gwatkin, Miss. 12. 
 gwatkin, r. l. 80. 
 
 Hamilton, The Duchess of (Miss Elizabeth Gunning). 26. 
 Hamilton, The ioth Duke of. 99. 
 Hanger, General (Lord Coleraine). 108. 
 Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, 2ND Earl of. 158. 
 Harris, Miss (afterwards Lady Frances Cole). 75. 
 
 Hartley, Mrs. Elizabeth. 139. > 
 
 Hastings, The Lady Selina. 169. 
 
 Hastings, Warren. 102. 
 
 Herbert, Master H. G. 76. 
 
 Hertford, Francis, ist Marquis of. 37, 187. 
 
 Holland, The Lady Caroline Fox, afterwards Lady. 74. 
 
 Hume, Lady Amelia. 173. 
 
 Hume, Sir Abraham. 130. 
 
 HuNTLY, The Marquis of. 170. 
 
 Infant Academy, The. 62. 
 
 Infant Bacchus, The (Lord Porchester as). 76. 
 
 Infant Hercules, The. 56, 175. 
 
 Infant Samuel, The. 78^ 204. 
 
 " Innocence, Age of," The Head in the. 104. 
 
 Jacobs, Miss. 79. 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel. 97. 
 
 Kauffman, Miss Angelica, R.A. 180. 
 
 Keppel, Commodore (and Admiral) The Hon. Augustus, Viscount. 44, 181. 
 Keppel, Col., afterwards Gen. the Hon. William. 14, 28. 
 
Index of the Pictures. 
 
 Keppel, The Lady Caroline. 123. 
 Keppel, The Lady Elizabeth, hi. 
 
 Lace Makers, The. 208. 
 Lady in a Black Hat. 109. 
 Lady, Portrait OF A. 19. 
 Lady, Portrait of a. 182. 
 
 Lady, Young (Niece of Edmund Burke's Lawyer). 147. . 
 Lansdowne, William, Marquis of. 146. 
 Laughton, Mrs. 209. 
 
 Legge, The Hon. George, Viscount Lewisham. 149. 
 
 Legge, The Hon. William. 131. 
 
 Lennox, The Lady Anne. 67. 
 
 Lindsay, The Lady Jane. 82. 
 
 Lister, Master (Lord Ribblesdale). 20. 
 
 Lister, Miss. 91. 
 
 Loudoun, James, 5th Earl of. 154. 
 
 Malone, Edmond. 148. 
 Match-Boy, A. 45. 
 
 Mexborough, The Countess of, and her Child. 113. 
 
 Miles, Mr. 207. 
 
 Miles, Mrs. 207. 
 
 Miranda (" Ariadne ")• 70. 
 
 Moore, Mrs. 184. 
 
 Morris, Mrs. 89. 
 
 Moses in the Bulrushes, 155. 
 
 Mother and Child. 48. 
 
 Mountstuart, John, Viscount. 24. 
 
 MuDGE, Rev. Mr. 206. 
 
 Muscipula. 29, 
 
 Negro, A. 42. 
 Nesbitt, Mrs. ii. 
 NympHj The. 39. 
 
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 Index of the Pictures. 
 
 " Offie." 84. 
 
 Old Man, wearing a Cap. 23. 
 
 Palmer, Miss Mary (Marchioness of Thomond). 177. • 
 Palmer, Miss Theophila, "Offie." 17, 84. 
 Parker, Master and Miss. 145. 
 Parker, The Hon. Mrs. 138, 163. ■ 
 
 Parker, The Hon. Mrs. (Lady Boringdon) and her Son, Lord Boringdon. 
 138, 163. 
 
 Pelham, Mrs., Feeding Chickens. 9. 
 Pembroke, The Countess of. 164. 
 Pembroke, The Earl of, and his Son. 159. 
 Perdita (Mrs. Robinson). 100, 
 Picture, Oil Sketch for. 210. 
 
 Porchester, Lord, Master H. G. Herbert, as the Infant Bacchus. 76. 
 Powis, Lady H. A. Herbert, Countess of. 50. 
 Powlett, The Lady Katherine. 63. 
 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, P.R.A. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 105, 106, 107, 198. 
 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, Relics of. 223, 230. 
 
 Ribblesdale, Lord (Master Lister). 20. 
 
 Richmond Hill. 165. 
 
 Ridge, Miss. 95, 116. 
 
 Robinetta, Sketch for. 34. 
 
 Robinson, Mrs. (Perdita). 100. 
 
 Rockingham, The Marquis of. 162, 197. 
 
 Rollin, Charles. 122. 
 
 Romney, Lady. 194. 
 
 Rothes, John, 8th Earl of. 126. 
 
 Samuel, Calling of. 78. 
 Saunders, Admiral. 203. 
 Schoolboy, The. 192. 
 Searle, Miss (Girl mth a Lamb). 121. 
 
Index of the Pictures. 
 
 Servant. Sir Joshua's. 15. 
 Servant, Dr. Johnson's. 42. 
 Seymour, Lord George. 13. 
 Sharp, Joshua. 168. , 
 Shepherd Boy. 166. 
 Shepherds, Adoration of. 156. 
 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. 30. 
 SiDDONS, Mrs. (The Tragic Muse). 55. 
 Simplicity. 12. 
 
 Simpson, John, Esq., of Bradley. 140. 
 Sleeping Girl. A Sketch. 22. 
 
 Spencer, Georgiana, Countess, and her daughter, afterwards Duchess of 
 
 Devonshire. 81, 157, 199. 
 Spencer, Lavinia, Countess, and her Son, John Charles, Viscount Althorp. 
 
 do, 118, 124. 
 
 Spencer, Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte (The Young Fortune-Tellers). 46. 
 Spencer, The Lady Amelia, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough. Head of 
 
 " The Age of Innocence." 104. 
 Stanhope, The Lady. 125. 
 St. John (Master Wynn, as). 18. 
 Strawberry Girl, The. 86. 
 Studious Boy, The. 90. 
 
 Study, A, portrait of a Lady in a Black Hat. 109. 
 Study, A, Girl with a Dove. 128. 
 Study OF a Girl's Head. 114A. 
 Sullivan, Stephen, Esq. 135. 
 Sussex, Henry, Earl of. 72. 
 
 Tan-che-qua, a Chinese. 51. 
 
 Tavistock, Francis Russell, Marquis of. 151. 
 
 Tavistock, The Lady Elizabeth Keppel, Marchioness of. hi. 
 
 Thomond, Marchioness of (Mary Palmer). 177. 
 
 Thrale, Mrs., and her Daughter. 127. 
 
 Thurlow, Edward, Lord. 64. 
 
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 Index of the Pictures. 
 
 TiTCHFiELD, Marquis of. 172. 
 ToMKiNS, Mr. 114. 
 
 TowNSHEND, F. M., George, Marquis of. 61. 
 Tragic Muse, The (Mrs. Siddons). 55. 
 Twiss, Mrs. 142. 
 
 Vansittart, Miss Emilia. 25. • 
 Venus chiding Cupid. 88. 
 
 Waldegrave, James, 2ND Earl. 144. 
 
 Waldegrave, Maria, Countess (Duchess of Gloucester). 136, 152. 
 
 Waldegrave, The Ladies Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Horatia. 27. 
 
 Warwick, George, Earl of. 201. 
 
 Whitbread, Miss. 171. 
 
 Worsley, Sir Richard, Bart. 141. 
 
 Wynn, Master (as St. John). 18. 
 
 YoRKE, Master Philip. 167. 
 
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