)900. 
 
From the Library of 
 
 Frank Simpson 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 in 2015 
 
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Third Edition.] 
 
 EXHIBITION 
 
 OF A 
 
 Special Selection from the Works 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE ROMNEY, 
 
 INCLUDING A FEW 
 
 PORTRAITS OF EMMA, LADY HAMILTON, 
 
 THE GRAFTON GALLERIES 
 ■h -m Summer Exhibition, -jt 
 
 IQOO. 
 
THE GRAFTON GALLERIES, 
 
 8, Grafton Street, W. 
 
 ROMNEY EXHIBITION. 
 
 President* 
 
 The Duke of Rutland, K.G. 
 
 Vice- Presidents* 
 
 The Lord Aldenham. 
 
 TankervilJe Chamberlayne, Esq. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Henry Chaplin, M.P. 
 
 The Earl of Crewe. 
 
 The Hon. Herbert C. Gibbs. 
 
 Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower. 
 
 The Marquess of Granby. 
 
 Maj.-Gen. Sir Coleridge Grove, K.C.B. 
 
 The Lord Hillingdon. 
 
 Sir Edward Law^on, Bart. 
 
 The Duke of Leeds. 
 
 The Duke of Portland. 
 
 Alfred de Rothschild, Esq. 
 
 Sir Charles Tennant, Bart. 
 
 Lady Patronesses. 
 
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 The 
 Mrs. 
 The 
 The 
 The 
 Mrs. 
 The 
 The 
 Mrs. 
 The 
 The 
 The 
 Mrs. 
 The 
 
 . Prince-s Edward of Saxe- Weimar. 
 Marchioness of Bristol. 
 
 T. D. Croft. 
 Marchioness of Granby. 
 Lady Hay of Haystoun. 
 Lady Hothfield. 
 
 W. D. James. 
 Duchess of Leeds. 
 Duchess of Marlborough. 
 
 Carl Meyer. 
 
 Lidy Cecil Scott Montagu. 
 Duchess of Portland. 
 Duchess of Sutherland. 
 Charles Van Raalte, 
 Lady Wantage. 
 
 Managers* 
 
 T. D. Croft. 
 E. Barrington Nash. 
 
 Secretary* 
 
 Henry Bishop. 
 
THE 
 
 Grafton Galleries. 
 
 The prices of Works to be disposed of should 
 be communicated to the Secretary. A Commission 
 of ten per cent, on Works sold during the Exhibi- 
 tion will be charged to the Owner. 
 
 A deposit of 25 per cent, must be made at the 
 Galleries when a Work is bought, the remainder to 
 be paid at the close of the Exhibition, when the 
 Picture is to be removed by the purchaser. 
 
 In case of non-completion of the purchase the 
 deposit-money will be forfeited. 
 
 No Work may be removed before the close of 
 the Exhibition, except by special permission of the 
 Management. 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 EMMA, LADY HAMILTON. 
 
 "If there were more Emmas, there would be more Nelsons.'' 
 
 — Lord Nelson's Ekttkrs. 
 
 In the Autumn of the year 1761, a young woman, 
 bearing evidence of recent bereavement, might have been 
 seen wending her weary way (as G. P. James would express 
 the situation) into a quaint old Flintshire hamlet, carrying 
 in her arms her sole worldly belongings, in the shape of a 
 bundle and a baby. 
 
 This old-world village — at that time hardly known 
 beyond the precincts of the county— has since become 
 famous wherever the English language is spoken as the 
 home of the late statesman, William Ewart Gladstone, and 
 has become a veritable Mecca to thousands of enthusiastic 
 votaries at the shrine of the great Demonstrator of Political 
 Ethics. 
 
 The baby that the poor mother carried and tendered so 
 lovingly has attained unto fame also, as great as the village 
 of Hawarden. But are there no worshippers at her grave ? 
 She lies, alas ! in alien soil, in a pauper's grave, ignored 
 and unknown, without stick or stone to mark the spot, but, 
 thank God, not entirely forgotten. Her memory lives in 
 these glorious visions of light and loveliness —such inspired 
 emanations of a great painter's brain can never die, and in 
 them she lives again. 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 Emma Lyon, for so the baby was named, was the 
 offspring of very worthy, but poor, hard-working country 
 folks. The father died while she was still an infant, and 
 the mother brought her back to her own native village of 
 Hawarden, and, by dint of industry, maintained herself and 
 child. 
 
 The education of the little Emma was, of course, only 
 such as might be expected from the poor mother's circum- 
 stances. At the age of thirteen she was placed in the family 
 of Mr. Thomas Hawarden, who (a very curious coincidence) 
 was the brother-in-law of the Alderman Boydell, future 
 publisher of her pictorial presentments. 
 
 In the very narrow limits of a prefatory note to a 
 Catalogue it is quite impossible to give anything but a 
 cursory outline of the principal events in the life of this 
 illustrious woman. I may say that, although her position in 
 this establishment was only that of nursery-maid, she ever 
 after preserved a grateful sense of the great kindness which 
 she experienced from the family, who were so well-disposed 
 and interested in her as to have her instructed with the 
 children, and that Emma evinced, even at this earl}* age, 
 evidences of ability and gifts far beyond her station in life. 
 
 At sixteen she came to Eondon and obtained a situation 
 with a tradesman in St. James's Market, but remaining 
 only a short period, through a lady of fashion and fortune 
 (whose name has not been recorded) visiting the shop, who 
 took a liking to Emma and induced her to become her maid 
 forthwith. 
 
 The lady appears to have treated the girl more as a 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 companion than a servant, taking her to concerts and the 
 theatres, and allowing Emma to read Fielding and the 
 works of other novelists then in vogue. These were the 
 early days of the American War of Independence, and a 
 young cousin, whom she had only known as a child, was 
 pressed and sent on board ship off the Tower. This roused 
 the chivalrous resentment of the lively Km ma, and she had 
 the courage to face the captain of the ship, who was no 
 other than John Payne, who became Admiral of that name 
 (a noted old sea-dog), and requested of him the liberation 
 of her relative. The gallant officer was so much struck 
 with the manner and appearance of the lovely petitioner 
 that he granted her request —conditionally— and became a 
 lover in return. The Captain, however, soon lost his prize, 
 for Sir Harry Featherston fell in love with Emma and con- 
 ducted her to his beautiful estate in Sussex, where for 
 twelve months she led a life of grandeur as the nominal 
 head of a noble mansion. 
 
 During her residence at Up Park, Emma obtained great 
 applause and adulation from the sporting companions of 
 Sir Harry, because of her equestrian ability, sitting her horse 
 with great elegance, and excelling in speed the boldest of 
 Featherston's friends. But a change soon came. She was 
 removed to private rooms in town, and apparent neglect 
 aggravated her resentment and hastened separation. 
 
 The gradations from splendour and magnificence at Up 
 Park to the extremity of want and misery at Paddington 
 Green were so rapid that in a few months she was nearly 
 destitute in the Metropolis, without a friend, driven to 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 encounter the ruthless storm, when something' occurred 
 which produced a complete turn in the tide of her affairs. 
 
 The lectures delivered at Schomberg House, Pall Mall, 
 by Dr. James Graham, of Edinburgh, required, from a 
 lucrative point of view, to be enlivened by description and 
 illustration in the person of some young female, whose 
 figure might render her a perfect model of health and 
 beauty. The fact of Emma's connection with this Exhibi- 
 tion stands uncontradicted ; on the contrary, it is supported 
 by the testimony of Cosway, Tresham, and Hone, and the 
 lovely drawings they made from her person. Flaxinan is 
 also allowed to have perpetuated her lovely figure in marble. 
 Where is it now ? The drawing attributed to Romney by 
 the owner (here exhibited), whoever it may be by, is a 
 veritable masterpiece, and the admiration of the medical 
 profession, from the knowledge of anatomy it reveals. 
 This was in the year 17S2, the most memorable in all her 
 life, for did not the Honourable Charles Greville bring 
 Emma to the Studio of George Romney, and request the 
 artist to paint her portrait — that portrait is en evidence 
 before us here, the first time it has ever been exhibited, so 
 far as our knowledge permits, which may be said also of 
 the lovely "Emma,"' and the superb "Bacchante Leading 
 a Goat," "the best he ever painted of her," exclaims the 
 painter's son and biographer. 
 
 " The talents which Nature bestowed on the fair Emma," 
 says the historian of the artist, " led her to delight in the 
 two kindred arts of music and painting. In the first she 
 acquired a great practical ability ; for the second she had 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 i exquisite taste and such expressive powers, as could furnish 
 to an historical painter an inspiring model for the various 
 characters, either delicate or sublime, that he might have 
 occasion to represent. Her features, like the language of 
 Shakespeare, could exhibit the feelings of nature and 
 the gradations of every passion with a most fascinating 
 truth and felicity of expression." Of her it may truly 
 be quoted — 
 
 " Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, 
 In every gesture, — dignity and love." 
 Romney delighted in observing the wonderful command 
 she possessed over her eloquent features, and through the 
 surprising vicissitudes of her destiny she ever took a gene- 
 rous pride in serving him as a model. Her peculiar force 
 and variation of feeling, countenance, and gesture inspirited 
 and ennobled the productions of his art. 
 
 Hayley states that one of the earliest pictures painted 
 from Emma was "Circe with the Magic Wand " (here ex- 
 hibited), to which he assigns the year 1782, succeeded rapidly 
 by "Cassandra,'' "Calypso," "Magdalen," "Bacchante," 
 "Contemplation," "St. Cecilia," "Joan of Arc," "Sensi- 
 bility," " Kate," and others too numerous to mention here, 
 which, if catalogued, would amount to at least eighty studies. 
 
 In the Case of MSS. and general memoranda relating 
 to the Artist, lent by Mr. Ernest Leggatt, is the very interest- 
 ing holograph letter from Charles Greville to Romney, in 
 which he relinquishes to Mr. Christian Curwen the beautiful 
 picture, painted to his commission, of the " Spinstress. : ' 
 
 The transference of his rights in the ownership of this 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 picture marks the period when, being under the necessity of 
 retrenching his establishment, Greville was planning how to 
 effect a separation from the lovely original of this most 
 charming conception. 
 
 While considering how matters could be amicably 
 adjusted, Greville's uncle, Sir William Hamilton, Ambassador 
 at the Court of Naples, came unexpectedly to London, and 
 was soon introduced by his nephew to the accomplished 
 Emma. Her great beauty, charming manners, and en- 
 chanting voice quite enraptured Sir W'illiam, who proposed 
 to take her back with him to Italy, so that she might have 
 the advantage of Italian Masters to train her voice, which 
 offer was readily accepted, and the lady and her mother soon 
 after quitted England for Naples. 
 
 In a very short time Sir William became so thoroughly 
 enamoured of Emma as to desire to marry her, which he did 
 privately. In the spring of the year following (1791) Sir 
 William brought his wife to London, to celebrate the 
 marriage according to the rites of the Established Church, 
 and to give Lady Hamilton the social position which his 
 diplomatic office rendered imperative, as it is necessary to be 
 acknowledged by the English Sovereign, previous to the 
 admission to a foreign Court of a British subject, when 
 attached to an Embassy. This action will, at least, free Sir 
 William from the accusation of being conversant with the 
 prior history of the object of his affection. 
 
 Romney writes of her at this time : " The greatest part 
 of this summer I shall be engaged on painting pictures 
 from the divine lad}'. I cannot give her any other epithet, 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 for I think her superior to all womankind " ; and, again, "all 
 the world is talking of her, so that if she had not more good 
 sense than vanity her brain must be turned.'' 
 
 Of the return of v Sir William and Lady Hamilton to 
 Naples, their reception by the Court, and the affectionate 
 regard the Queen of Naples entertained for Lady Hamilton, 
 space does not permit but mere mention. 
 
 A meeting must be recorded, as it proved so very 
 important in its consequences. When the war broke out, 
 following the death of Louis XVI. and the Queen Marie 
 Antoinette, Lord Hood dispatched a certain Captain Nelson, 
 of the Aganiemnoji, to Sir William Hamilton at Naples, 
 requesting his good offices with the Government there to 
 send as many troops to Toulon as could be spared. Of this 
 first meeting Nelson writes home to his wife concerning 
 Lady Hamilton: "She is a young woman of amiable 
 manners, and who does honour to the station to which she 
 is raised." Thus commenced that friendship, which con- 
 tinued to glow with increasing intensity to the last moment 
 of their respective lives. 
 
 In the succeeding editiou of this Catalogue I purpose 
 giving a verbatim extract from the Will of Lord Nelson, in 
 which the great Admiral leaves Lady Hamilton as a legacy 
 to the consideration of his country " for services rendered," 
 with remarks upon the way in which his wishes were dis- 
 regarded by the Puritanical Government of the day, also a 
 fac simile reproduction of Lord Nelson's last letter to Lady 
 Hamilton, found open upon his desk in the cabin of the 
 Victory by Captain Hardy after the battle of Trafalgar. 
 
 K. B. N. 
 
GEORGE ROMNEY. 
 
 " He was famous in his prof essio?t ; 
 A nd it was his great right to be so. ' ' 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 NO TAN DA 
 
 OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS INT THE ARTIST'S LIFE. 
 
 1734. — 2 oth December, birth at Dalton-in-Furness. 
 
 1752. — Became pupil to Steele, a local painter. 
 
 1756. — 14th October, married Mary Abbot, of Kirkland. 
 
 ,, Leaves his wife and visits York in company with Steele. 
 
 1760. — Painted Portraits and Historical Subjects at Lancaster. 
 
 1762. — Came to London. 
 
 1763. — Exhibited his " Death of General Wolfe " at Society of Arts. 
 
 1764. — September, visited Paris. 
 
 1 77 1. — Exhibited whole length of " Mrs. Yates as the Tr.igic Muse." 
 
 1773. — March 20th. Left London for Italy, visiting Dover, Calais, Paris, 
 
 Avignon, Marseilles, Nice, Genoa, Pisa, Florence, arriving at 
 Rome in June. 
 
 Romney had a letter of introduction from H.R.H. the Duke of 
 Gloucester to the Pope. 
 
 1774. — Painte 1 Wortley Montague at Venice in the dress of a Turk (now 
 
 at Warwick Castle). 
 
 1775. — July, returned to London. 
 
 ,, December, took possession of the lately deceased Francis Cotes' 
 house in Cavendish Square. 
 
 1782. — Pai its his first portrait of " Emma as Circe with the Magic Wand." 
 
 1786. — Romney and Alderman Boydell discuss proposals for the Shake- 
 speare Gallery. 
 
 1787-90. — Period of production of his great works — " The Tempest," 
 "Infant Shakespeare," "Cassandra," "Wood Nymph," 
 "Magdalen," "Calypso." 
 
 1790. — Revisited Paris with Rev. Thos. Carwardine, Dr. Warner and Hayley. 
 
 1798.— Went to live at Hampstead. 
 
 1802.— Died at Kendal, November 15th. 
 
CATALOGUE. 
 
 As it is not impossible that exception may be taken to 
 the presence in a Romney Exhibition of works by other artists, 
 the Managers can only sav that they thought it might be of 
 interest if the pictures of Ronmef s favourite model were 
 represented by a few other pencils. For that reason, two or 
 three portraits of Lady Hamilton, which are not by Romney, 
 are now shown on the walls. 
 
 The Managers also think it well to explaiit why so few 
 well-known works of Romney are exhibited. They considered 
 it would be more gejierally interesting to the public if they 
 were to try and put before them works of the Artist which 
 were comparatively unknown. They hope that they have 
 succeeded in getting together a large number of pictures of 
 this class which are fully worthy of exhibition. The fortunate 
 owners have been so generous in offering their treasures to the 
 Managers, and so much information has been acquired as to 
 the whereabouts of many more of Romney' 's works, that the 
 Managers hope to be able to produce in the Autumn another 
 collection of the Artist's productions which will not be inferior 
 to this, and of which one special feature will be Sketches and 
 Contemporary Engravings. 
 
 STAIRCASE. 
 
 I. — A Collection of Proof Engravings 
 
 LENT BY 
 
 Algernon Graves, Esq. Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 C. E. Clifford, Esq. T. McLean, Esq. 
 
 Mrs. Mendoza. 
 
 Enumerated at end of Catalogue. 
 
6 
 
 OCTAGON ROOM. 
 
 OCTAGON ROOM. 
 
 2. — Portrait of Lord Middleton. 
 
 Lent by John Holden, Esq. 
 
 3« — Portrait of Mrs. Townley Ward. 
 
 Mrs. Townley Ward, eldest daughter of William Hucks, Esq., 
 of Knaresborough, by his Wife, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas 
 Barnett, Esq., of that town. Painted in the year 1780. 
 
 Lent by 7 he Lord Aldenham. 
 
 4. — George, Duke of Marlborough, K.G. 
 
 Lent by The Duke of Marlborough. 
 
OCTAGON ROOM. 
 
 7 
 
 ^. — Portrait of Lieut. -Gen. Robertson, R.E., 
 of Lawers. 
 
 Lent by The Misses Grey 
 
 6» — Sir William Lemon. 
 
 Lent by Col. Arthur Tremayne. 
 
 J. — Portrait of Gen. Sir George Osborn, 
 
 Bart. 
 
 Born 1742 ; died 18 18. 
 
 Eldest Son of Sir Danvers Osborn, who was last but one 
 Governor of New York. Sir George joined the Grenadier Guards ; 
 was A.D.C. to his Uncle, Lord Halifax, in Ireland. Gentleman-in- 
 Waiting to George III. Went through American War of Inde- 
 pendence with his Regiment. Died at Chicksands Priory. 
 
 Lent by Sir Algernon Osborn, Bart. 
 
 8. — Portrait of Joseph Tayadancega. 
 
 Lent by Miss E. F. Forster. 
 
OCTAGON ROOM. 
 
 9. - - Mrs. Yates as the " Tragic Muse." 
 
 Engraved by Valentine Green. 
 
 See Catalogue, No. 123A. 
 
 Lent by Robert W, Hudson, Esq. 
 
 10. — Case containing — 
 
 1. Four Volumes of Romney's Autograph Diary of Sitters 
 for 1779, 1783, 1784, 1787. 
 
 2. Origiml Copper-plate, by Thomas Wright, from 
 Romney's unfinished Portrait of Himself (now in the National 
 Portrait Gallery), and an early "Impression" of the same, as 
 issued with the Rev. John Romney's " Life of Romney." 
 
 3. Romney's Autograph Memorandum Book of Sums received 
 from Sitters. 
 
 4. Book of " Professional Engagements," in the handwriting 
 of Romney's Servant. 
 
 5. Book of Romney's Frame Maker, William Saunders, 
 with three Receipts. 
 
 6. Passport issued to Romney in Paris, 1775, w ^h Autograph 
 Signatures of Louis XVI. and M. de Vergennes. 
 
 7 Autograph Poem to Romney, by Miss Anna Seward, 
 1788. 
 
 Lent by T. Humphry Ward, Esq., 
 
LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 9 
 
 LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 II. Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton, 
 
 The picture belonged to Mr. Benjamin Booth, whose daughter 
 married Sir R. Ford. It descended to her son, Richard Ford, 
 and afterwards belonged to his son, Sir Clare Ford, G.C.B., and 
 hung at 17, Park Street. 
 
 See Catalogue, No. 72. 
 
 as a Bacchante. 
 
 Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. 
 
 Lent by Charles Davis, Esq. 
 
 12. 
 
 Portrait of a Lady. 
 
 Lent by H. Madocks, Esq. 
 
 13 
 
 Portrait of a Lady. 
 
 Lent by E. Marshall Hall, Esq., Q.C. 
 
10 
 
 LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 14. — Mrs. Lowther. 
 
 The wife of Colonel James Lowther, Equerry to H.R.H. The 
 Duke of Gloucester. 
 
 In riding habit. Painted 1790. 
 
 Lent by Capt. Henry Lowther. 
 L. C. Lowther, Esq. 
 G. A. Lowther, Esq. 
 
 • — Portrait of Mrs. Carwardine and 
 Child. 
 
 Wife of the Rev. T. Carwardine, of Colne Priory. 
 See Catalogue, No. 84A. 
 
 Lent by The Lord Hillingdon. 
 
 16. - — Caroline Purling. 
 
 Daughter of Matthew Purling. Born at .St. Helena, 1750. 
 
 Painted in 1778. 
 
 Lent by H. B. Middleton, Esq. 
 
 17. 
 
 — Portrait of Catherine Austin, Mrs. 
 Robertson, of Lawers. 
 Lent by The Misses Grey. 
 
LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 1 8. — Portrait of Dorothy, fourth wife of 
 Phillip Champion Crespigny, M.P., 
 of Aldborough, Suffolk. 
 
 Daughter of Richard Scott, Esq., of Belton Grange, Co. Salop. 
 
 Lent by G. H. C. H. de Crespigny, Esq. 
 
 19. — " Circe," portrait of Emma Harte 
 
 (Lady Hamilton). 
 
 Painted in 1782. 
 
 Lent by The Hon. Herbert C. Gibbs. 
 
 20. — Portrait of Lady Prescott, with Three 
 
 Children. 
 
 Sarah, Lady Prescott, was the daughter of Beeston Long, Esq. 
 Married, 1774, George William Prescott, Esq., afterwards created a 
 Baronet. She died 1817. 
 
 Lent by Edward Lewis Raphael, Esq. 
 
 21. — Portrait of Lady Milnes. 
 
 L.ent by Mrs. Frances Bentinck. 
 
I 2 
 
 LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 22. — Portrait of a Lady. 
 
 Lent by William Garneit, Esq. 
 
 23» — Portrait of Mrs. Trimmer. 
 
 Lent by F. C. Pawle, Esq. 
 
 24» — Portrait of Lady Eden. 
 
 Wife of Sir Frederick Eden. Grandmother of the present 
 Baronet. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Eden, Bart. 
 
 25« — Miss Mellon, afterwards Duchess of 
 St. Albans. 
 
 Lent by F. C. Pawle, Esq. 
 
 26. Portrait of Miss Benedetta Ramus, 
 afterwards Lady Day. 
 
 Engraved by W. Dickinson. 
 Lent by The Hon. W. F. D. Smith, M.P. 
 
LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 27. — Portrait of Mrs. Mee. 
 
 Sister-in-law to the 2nd Viscount Palmerston, therefore Aunt 
 by marriage to the Prime Minister, 
 
 Lent by The Hon. Evelyn Ashley. 
 
 28. — Mrs. Lowther. 
 
 The wife of Colonel James Lowther, Equerry to H.R.H. The 
 Duke of Gloucester. 
 
 In mushroom hat. Painted 1780. 
 
 Lent by Capt. Henry Lowther. 
 L. C. Loyviher, Esq. 
 G. A. Lowther, Esq. 
 
 29. — Portrait of Jane Thornton (Lady 
 Balgonie), afterwards Conntess of 
 Leven. 
 
 With her son David, ^afterwards ^Eighth Earl of Leven and 
 Seventh Earl of Melville. 
 
 Lent by Miss Leslie Melville. 
 
 30. — Portrait of Miss Harriot Milles. 
 
 Daughter of Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter. 
 
 Lent by Sir Francis Beilby Alston. K C.M.G. 
 
1 4 
 
 LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 31. — Portrait of Matilda, Daughter of John 
 
 and Matilda Lockwood. 
 
 Born 1763; died 1848. 
 
 Married, 1788, Henry Calveley Cotton, ninth son ot Sir Lynch 
 Salisbury Cotton, Bart., of Combermere. 
 See Catalogue No. 
 
 Lent by Maj.- General F. Conyers Cotton. 
 
 32. - — Portrait of Lady Lemon. 
 
 Lent bv Col. Arthur Tremayne. 
 
 33«> — Portrait of Penelope, second Wife of 
 Nathaniel Lee Acton, Esq. 
 
 See Catalogue, No. 58. 
 
 Lent by The Lady de Saumarez. 
 
 34. — Portrait of Snsannah, first Wife of 
 Nathaniel Lee Acton, Esq. 
 Lent by The Lady de Saumarez, 
 
 35« — Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Forbes. 
 
 Daughter s of Sir James Huy, Bart., of Smithfield and 
 Haystoun ; married, in 1770, Sir William Forbes, Sixth Baronet, of 
 Pitsligo. 
 
 Lent by The Trustees of 
 
 Sir Duncan Hay, Bart., of Haystoun. 
 
LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 i 1 5 
 
 35^ • — Portrait of Mrs. Brown. 
 
 Lent by G. Harland-Peck, Esq, 
 
 36. — Portrait of Lady Wedderburn. 
 
 Painted 1771. 
 
 Alicia, daughter of James Dundas, of Dundas Castle. Married 
 to Sir John Wedderburn, Bart., of Ballinclean. 
 
 Lent by Sir Wm. Wedderburn, M.P. 
 
 37o — Portrait of Mrs. Chitty Marshall 
 
 Lent by Edgar Speyer, Esq. 
 
 38. — Portrait of Mrs. Whatman. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Whatman. 
 
 3Q • — Portrait of Caroline, Fifth Duchess of 
 Marlborough. 
 
 Lent by The Duke of Marlborough 
 
6 
 
 LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 40. — Portrait of George Romney (the 
 Artist) in Brown Coat. 
 
 Painted by himself about 1786. 
 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq 
 
 41 • — Two Pieces of Tapestry. 
 
 Lent by Charles Davis, Esq. 
 
 42. — Charlotte Frances Bentinck, Lady 
 Milnes. 
 
 Wife of Sir Robert Shore Milnes, Bart. 
 
 Lent by The Earl of Crewe. 
 
 43* — Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton. 
 
 Lent by George Coats, Esq. 
 
 44* — Portrait of Miss Frances Harford. 
 
 Daughter of the last Lord Baltimore. Married Lord Egremont. 
 
 Lent by Archibald Coats, Esq. 
 
LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 17 
 
 4^). — Portrait of Mrs. Davies. 
 
 Lent by Edgar Speyer, Esq. 
 
 46. — Portrait of Margaret, Countess Poulett. 
 
 Wife of John, 4th Earl Poulett. 
 
 Lent by The Hon. Harold Finch-Hatton. 
 
 47 « — Portrait of Emma Harte (Lady Hamil- 
 ton) as "Nature." 
 
 Engraved by H. Meyer. 
 Lent by F. H. Fawkes, Esq. 
 
 . — Portrait of the Maichioness of Towns- 
 hend. 
 
 Daughter of Sir William Montgomery, Bart., of Macbiehill. 
 Painted circa 1790. 
 
 One of the " Three Graces of Scotland." 
 The other two were Mrs. Beresford and Hon. Mrs. Gardiner. 
 
 Lent by George Massy Beresford, Esq. 
 
1 8 LARGE GALLERY. 
 
 49. — "Emma" (Lady Hamilton). 
 
 Engraved by J. Jones. 
 Lent by Tankerville Chamberlayne, Esq 
 
 ^jO. — Emma, Lady Hamilton, as a Bacchante 
 leading a Goat. 
 
 Engraved by C. Knight. 
 
 Formerly in the possession of Sir William Hamilton, for 
 whom it was painted. The original sketch in oils was lost at sea. 
 
 Lent by Tankervjlle Chamberlaynf, Esq. 
 
 CASE CONTAINING— 
 50 a * — The Artist's Seal. 
 
 ^O^' — Letter from the Artist to his Son John. 
 
 Sealed with the above .Seal. 
 
 ^JO c — Miniature on Ivory. 
 
 Portrait of the Artist late in life. 
 
LARGE GALLERY. I 9 
 
 ijO**' — Spectacles worn by the Artist. 
 
 50 e ' — Miniature of a Nun. 
 
 50 f ' — Small Cabinet Portrait in Oils. 
 
 By Peter Romney. 
 The above Articles lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 50 g> — The Artist's Palette. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Chas. Van Raalte. 
 
 50 h " — Miniature on Ivory of the Artist. 
 
 Ipse pinxit. 
 
 Lent by The Lord Aldenham. 
 50 1, — The Boydell Medal. 
 
 Given to the Artists who contributed to the Shakespeare 
 Gallery. 
 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
20 
 
 CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
 CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
 5l. — Portrait of Master Russell. 
 
 Lent by Holman Hunt, Esq. 
 
 5 ^. — The Brown Boy. 
 
 Lent by G. E. Briscoe Eyre, Esq. 
 
 — A Study after Titian. 
 
 Ex Romney Sale, 1807. 
 
 Lent by Hugh P. Lane, Esq. 
 
 54« — Head of Lady Hamilton as a 
 Bacchante. 
 
 A variation of the Vernon Picture. 
 Lent by Sir J G. Tollemache Sinclair, Bart. 
 
 . — Head of Lady Hamilton as Euphrosyne. 
 
 Lent by George Harland-Peck, Esq. 
 
CENTRE GALLERY. 2 1 
 
 • — Portrait of Henry Calveley Cotton. 
 
 Ninth son of Sir Lynch Salisbury Cotton, Bart., of Combermere 
 Abbey, Cheshire. Born July 25th, 1755, cnecl Mav I S t h, 1837. 
 
 Lent by Maj.-Genekal F. Convers Cotton. 
 — Portrait of the Hon. Mrs. Lane Fox. 
 
 Daughter of George, First Lord Rivers. Born 1756 ; died 1822. 
 Lent by Lteut.-Gen. A. H. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, 
 D.C.L. (lately deceased). 
 
 . — Portrait of Nathaniel Lee Acton, Esq. 
 
 Air. Lee Acton was descended from John Acton, Esq., of 
 Bramford Hall, near Ipswich, High Sheriff for the County of 
 Suffolk in 1 63 1. He inherited the Estates of Livermere and 
 Lawshall, near Bury St. Edmunds, from the family of Lee. His 
 maternal ancestor, Thomas Lee, son of Sir John Lee, of Lawshall, 
 married Margaret May, sister of .Sir Algernon May and of Baptist 
 May, Privy Purse to Charles II. Mr. Lee Acton traced a Royal 
 descent, through the Buxtons of Norfolk and the Lords Abergavenny, 
 both from John of Gaunt and Duke of Lancaster, and from Edmund 
 of Langley, Duke of York. Dying without issue, his Estates passed 
 to his sister Harriet, wife of Sir William Middleton, Bart., of 
 Shrubland Park, Ipswich, the great-grandfather of Ladyde Saumarez. 
 
 Lent by The Lady de Saumarez. 
 
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 CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
 — The Haughty Dame. 
 
 Lent by Grey Hill, Esq. 
 
 60. — Portrait of Erasmus Darwin, M.D., 
 
 F.R.S. 
 
 Born 1734 ; d' e d 1802. 
 
 Author of the " Botanic Garden Zoonomia. 
 
 Lent by Ernest Llggatt, Esq. 
 
 61. — Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and 
 
 Comedy. 
 
 Painted to the commission of the Boydells for the "Shake- 
 speare Gallery," 1787. 
 
 " His best finished work." — Redgrave. 
 
 Engraved by Benjamin Smith for the large quarto edition 
 of that noble work. 
 
 The "Comedy" is a very beautiful study front the " Divine 
 Emma.'''' 
 
 When my article upon the portraiture of Emma, Lady 
 Hamilton, was published in the Magazine of Art in the autumn 
 of 1885, I received a letter from the well-known engraver, Mr. S. C. 
 A ubrey, who engraved the smaller plate of ' ' Milton Dictating to His 
 Daughters ^ also containing a study of Lady Hamilton'' s beauteous 
 presentment. He says : " / wis a pupil of Smith {who engraved 
 the above painting) some 60 years ago — his only one then — and he 
 
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 was a man full of anecdote and information, and whilst I was using 
 he graver he would sit by telling story, after story relating to the 
 Boydells, Romney, and Lady Hamilton. Smith told me that the 
 early proof s of the engravings containing the latter' s portrait had 
 always to be submitted to her.'" 
 
 E. B. N. 
 
 Lent by Tankerville Chamberlayne, Esq, 
 
 62. — Portrait of Sir Bellingham Graham. 
 
 Sixth Baronet, of Norton Conyers. Born 1764; died 1796. 
 
 Lent by Sir Reginald Graham, Bart. 
 
 62a. — Portrait of Harriet, Mrs. Blanshard. 
 
 Born 1745 ; died 1822. 
 
 Daughter of Roger Henry Gale, Esq., of Sciuton Hall, Bed 
 Yorks. Wife of Captain John Atkinson Blanshard. 
 
 Lent by C. S. Pemberton, Esq. 
 
 63. — Portrait of William Chafyn-Grove, 
 Esq., M.P., of Zeals, Wilts. 
 
 Born 1 73 1 ; died 1793. 
 
 Married, in 1776, Elizabeth, daughter of John Grove, Esq., 
 ot Feme, in the same County. 
 
 Lent by G. Troyte-Chafyn-Grove, Esq. 
 
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 64. — Portrait of a Lady in Blue Dress. 
 
 Lent by Grey Hill, Esq. 
 
 65* — George Purling. 
 
 Of Bradford Peverell, Dorset, and Reigate Lodge, Surrey. 
 H.E.LC.S. Son of Matthew Purling. 
 
 Bom at St. Helena, 1764 ; died 1840. 
 
 Probably painted in 1778. 
 
 Lent by II. B. Middleton, Esq. 
 
 66. — Head of Lady Hamilton. 
 
 Her last portrait ever painted from life by Romney, after her 
 return from Naples with Sir William Hamilton. 
 
 Lent by F. C. Arkwright, Esq. 
 
 67. 
 
 — Portrait of Thomas Wallace. 
 
 (Baron Wallace of Knarsdale, 1828). Born 1767, died 1844. 
 The only son of James Wallace, Attorney- General. Held various 
 offices under the Crown during four reigns. A Member of the 
 Privy Cuuncil for forty years. 
 
 Painted circa 1780. 
 
 Lent by T. Hope Wallace, Esq. 
 
CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
 25 
 
 68. — Portrait of Grace, Daughter of Samuel 
 
 Estwicke, Esq. 
 
 Married Hon. J. Bridgeman Simpson, of Babworth Hall, Notts. 
 Lent by Col. H. Denison. 
 
 69, — Portrait of Elizabeth, only Daughter of 
 
 James Wallace, Attorney- General. 
 
 Painted circa 1780. 
 
 Lent by J. Hope Wallacf, Esq. 
 
 ^O. — Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton, as 
 St. Cecilia. 
 
 Finished Study for the large Painting in the possession of 
 Lord Masham. 
 
 The Engraving by G. Keating was from the above work. 
 Lent by Watson Fothergill, Esq. 
 
 71. — Cupid with a Mask. 
 
 Painted for the celebrated collection of Haskett .Smith, Esq., 
 of Trow swell, Gouldhurst. 
 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
 y2. — Emma, Lady Hamilton, as a Bacchante. 
 
 Purchased from Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., by Sir William 
 Hamilton in 1784; Exhibited Royal Academy, 1784 (No. 342 in 
 Catalogue); Purchased at the Sale of Sir William Hamilton, 1801, 
 by the ancestor of present owner. 
 
 The Engraving by J. R. .Smith in Mezzotint is from this 
 picture. ( Vide Catalogue, No. 120.) 
 
 Lent by Tankervillv. Chamherlayne, Esq. 
 
 N.B. — -There are five variations of the above picture, the details 
 of which are partly extracted, by kind consent, from the "History 
 of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds," by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., 
 and W. V. Cronin (vide Vol. II., p. 425 — 427), viz. : — 
 
 1 . Purchased from Sir Joshua Reynolds by Benjamin Booth, 
 Esq., and lately in the possession of his descendant, Sir Clare 
 Ford, H.B.M. Ambassador at Madrid, and now lent to this 
 Exhibition by Charles Davis, Esq. (Catalogue, No. 11.) 
 
 2. In the possession of the Earl of Lauderdale, purchased 
 at Sir Joshua's Sale, April 16th, 1796 (Lot 48). 
 
 3. In the possession of the Earl of Durham ; purchased at 
 the Sale of the Marchioness of Thomond's Collection, May 18th, 
 1821 (Lot 81). 
 
 4. In the possession of the Earl of Normanton. 
 
 5. In the possession of Miss Alice de Rothschild. This 
 formerly belonged to the Marquess of Lansdowne. 
 
CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
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 72a. — Portrait of Elizabeth, Wife of William 
 Chafyn-Grove, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Lent by G. Tkoyte-Chafyn-Grove, Esq. 
 
 73- — Portrait of Lady Austen. 
 
 Lent by H. Bingham Mildmay, Esq. 
 
 74' ~~ " Supposed Portrait of William Pitt. 
 
 Lent by Professor Charles Waldstein. 
 
 74 a - — Portrait of The Hon. Newton Wallop. 
 
 Painted 1791. 
 
 Grandfather of the present Earl. 
 
 Lent by The Earl of Portsmouth. 
 
CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
 75- — Portrait of Mrs. Whately. 
 
 Mrs. Whately (1699— 1778) was daughter of Joseph Thompson, 
 first cousin of Sir J. Thompson, Bart., first Lord Haversham, and 
 wife of Thos. Whately, of Nonsuch Park, Surrey. One of her sons 
 was private secretary to Mr. Grenville and Under-Secretary of 
 State, to whom certain letters were addressed from Massachusetts, 
 which, after his death, by unfair means fell into the hands of 
 Franklin, and produced an evil effect on the outbreak of American 
 discontent. Another son — Joseph, of Nonsuch Park — was father 
 of Archbishop Whately. The portrait of Mrs. Whately by Romney 
 was painted for her son, Joseph Whately, on his marriage with 
 the daughter of W. Plumer, of Gilston Park and Blakesware, 
 Herts. 
 
 Lent by Rev. Canon W. J. Whately. 
 
 76. — Portrait of Edward Nevinson, Esq., of 
 Carlisle. 
 
 Lent by Edward Nevinson, Esq. 
 
 jy. — Portrait of Priscilla, Lady Graham. 
 
 Sister of Earl Whitworth. Married Sir Bellingham Graham, 
 Sixth Baronet, of Norton Conyers, who died 1796, and, secondly, in 
 1800, to Francis, Second Viscount Lake. 
 
 Lent by Sir Reginald Graham, Bart. 
 
CENTRE GALLERY. 29 
 
 78. — Portrait of Viscount Admiral Agustus 
 Keppel. 
 
 Son of Second Earl of Albemarle. 
 Born 1725 ; died 1786. 
 
 Lent by W. F. Stocks, Esq. 
 7Q. — Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton. 
 
 Reading a Gazette recording one of Nelson's Victories. 
 
 Lf7itbyJ. Pierpo [N r Morgan, Esq. 
 
 80. — Head Sketch for one of the Witches 
 
 in Macbeth. 
 
 Lent by C. W. Dowdeswell, Esq. 
 
 81 . — Portrait of a Young Man. 
 
 Lent by Greville Douglas, Esq. 
 
 82. — Portrait of Miss Seward. 
 
 Attributed to Romney. 
 
 Lent by John Holden, E^q. 
 
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 83^ — Capt. Wm. Ogilvie, of Ardglass, 
 
 Ireland. 
 
 Lent by F. C. Pawle, Esq. 
 
 84. — Portrait of Mrs. Gladwin. 
 
 Wife of Gen. Gladwin, of Stubbing Court, Derbyshire. Born 
 1743 ; died 18 17. 
 
 Lent by G. Glauwin-Errington, Esq. 
 
 84a. — Portrait of the Rev. T. Carwardine, of 
 Colne Priory, Essex. 
 
 Born 1734 ; died 1825. 
 
 Mr. Carwardine was a great friend and early patron of 
 Romney's before the artist became so well known. He was a 
 typical example of the old English squire-parson, a Prebendary of 
 St. Paul's, a great friend and admirer of Horace Walpole, who 
 visited him at Colne several times. The poets Hayley and Cowper 
 w r ere frequently staying with him, as also Lord Thurlow. The 
 Priory was nearly always full of the most distinguished artists of 
 the day. 
 
 Mr. Carwardine himself was no mean artist, and the compiler 
 has seen works attributed to his brush that would hold their own 
 with his contemporary clerical-artists, Thomson, of Duddingston, 
 and Peters, of Oxford, both of whom attained the honour of R.A.'s. 
 
 The above portrait was the first painted by Romney on his 
 return to England after his first visit to Rome. 
 
 It has never been previously exhibited. 
 
 Lent by the Great- Grandson, Capt. W. G. Prober r, 
 Suffolk Regiment. 
 
CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
 3 J 
 
 84b. — Portrait of Lord Berwick, First Baron 
 Lent by The Lord Berwick. 
 
 85* — Portrait of Madame de Genlis. 
 
 Engraved in Hayley's "Life of Romney." 
 
 Bequeathed to Philip Courtenay, Esq., Q.C. (the father of the 
 present owner), by the painter. 
 
 Lent by Miss B. Courtenay. 
 
 86. - Portrait of Miss Tighe. 
 
 Lent by Thos. W. Webber, Esq. 
 
 87. — Sketch for the Head of " Comedy" 
 in the Allegorical Picture at Pet- 
 worth, Sussex. 
 
 Bequeathed to Philip Courtenay, Esq., Q.C., by the painter, 
 George Romney. 
 
 " My father told me he believed that the model who sat for 
 this head was 1 Nance Carey,' the mother of Edmund Kean." — 
 
 L.'B. Courtenay. 
 
 Lent by Miss B. Courtenay. 
 
CENTRE GALLERY. 
 
 Study of Emma, Lady Hamilton, ; 
 Lady Macbeth. 
 
 Lent by C. W. Dowdeswell, Esq. 
 
 Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Craven. 
 Lent by Henry R. Grenfell, Esq. 
 
SMALL GALLERY. 
 
 33 
 
 SMALL GALLERY. 
 
 — ■ A Collection of Proof Engravings of 
 Portraits of Lady Hamilton, chiefly 
 after Romney. 
 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
4 
 
 END GALLERY. 
 
 END GAELERY. 
 
 QO. — Drawing by Romney of Emma Harte, 
 or Lyon, afterwards Lady Hamilton 
 (nude). 
 
 So exhibited by Dr. James Graham, of Edinburgh, at 
 Schomberg House, Pall Mall, 1782-83, attested by manuscript t in 
 the autograph of an eminent artist, living at the time of exhibition, 
 now in the possession of Mr. Nash, annotater of this catalogue. 
 
 This drawing has been beautifully reproduced in fac simile, 
 by a special process of the Autotype Company, in pencil-tint and 
 cold sepia, particulars of which may be obtained of the Secretary. 
 The proprietors' profits will be given to the AVAR Fund. 
 
 Lent ly Sir John Geo. Tollemache Sinclair, Bart. 
 
 91. — Portrait 
 
 Lent by Wat son Fothergill, Esq. 
 
END GALLERY. 
 
 35 
 
 Q2. — Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton. 
 
 By Guzzarui. 
 Lent by E. Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 Q3« — Head of a Boy with Glass in Hand. 
 
 Lent by William Shoosmhh, Esq. 
 
 Q4- — Portrait of Sheridan. 
 
 Lent by John IIolden, Esq. 
 
 Q^j. — Portrait of Mrs. Molony, of Kiltanon, 
 Co. Clare (nee Selina Mills). 
 
 Painted circa 1780. 
 
 Lent by W. B. Molony, Esq., of Kiitanon, 
 K.O. Lancaster Regiment. 
 
 Q6. — Portraits of The Misses Cumberland. 
 
 Daughters of Richard Cumberland, the Dramatist. The one 
 seated became Lady Edward Bentinck, and the one standing 
 married a Mr. Badcock. 
 
 Lent ky F. H. Brodrick, Esq. 
 
36 
 
 END GALLERY. 
 
 97 . — Portrait of the Lady Georgiana West. 
 
 Daughter of John, Second Earl Delaware. Married, 1782, 
 Edward Pery Buckley, Esq. 
 
 Lent by Col. Cornwallts West. 
 
 98. — Baj occo (a Roman Dwarf). 
 
 Painted 1773. 
 
 "A most savage -looking dwarf, well known to the English 
 who visited Rome at that day, and so called by them from his 
 begging for a small Roman coin of that name" — (Extract from 
 " Life of Romney," page 96). 
 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 99. — Portrait of ' 4 Arthur," Youth with a 
 Dog. 
 
 Born 1760 ; died 1823. 
 
 Lent by R. W. Scaife, Esq. 
 
 IOO. — Portrait of Miss Ramus, afterwards 
 Baroness de Nonal. 
 
 Died 1848. 
 
 Lent by The Hon. W. F. D. Smith, M.P. 
 
END GALLERY. 
 
 37 
 
 101. — Portrait of General Sir Archibald 
 Campbell. 
 
 Sir Archibald Campbell, K.B., of Inverneil and Ross ; Major- 
 General and Colonel of 74th Regiment ; M.P. for Stirling ; 
 Governor and Commander-in-Chief on the Coast of Coromandel. 
 Son of James Campbell, Commissary of the Western Isles of 
 Scotland and Chamberlain of Argyle. Married Amelia, daughter 
 of Allan Ramsay, of Ainkell. Died in 1791, and was buried in 
 Westminster Abbey. 
 
 Lent by The Rev. Canon T. S. Brownrigg. 
 
 102. — Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton, 
 as " Cassandra." 
 
 Study for the whole length. 
 
 Lent by Edward Lewis Raphael, Esq. 
 
 I03» — Portrait of Charles, Brother of Richard 
 Brinsley Sheridan. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Frederick Shaw. 
 
 IO4. — Mrs. Rattray. 
 
 Lent by Capt. The Hon. John Yorke. 
 
38 
 
 END GALLERY. 
 
 IO5. — Portrait of a Mohawk Brave. 
 
 Who visited England with his Chief, called the Brant. 
 See Catalogue, No. 8. 
 
 Lent by William Iceton, Esq. 
 
 Portrait of Edward Witts. 
 
 Lent by Rev. F. E. Broome Witts. 
 
 Portrait of Miss Hannah Milnes. 
 
 Lent by The Earl of Crewe. 
 
 Portrait of Mrs. Anne Dashwood. 
 
 Born 1723 ; died 1802. This picture was painted in what was 
 termed his first local period, before he went to Rome. It is men- 
 tioned in Thorsby's description of Stanford Hall, 1790, as by 
 Romney. 
 
 Lent by Maj. -General R. L. Dashwood. 
 
 108. — Portrait of Charles Vere Dashwood, 
 Son of Robert Dashwood, Esq., 
 Stanford Hall, Notts. 
 
 Born 1745 ; died 1821. 
 
 Lent by Maj. -General K. L. Dashwood. 
 
 106. 
 
 1 06: i. — 
 
 107. — 
 
END GALLERY. 
 
 I08a. — Study of " Beatrice." 
 
 Le?it by Miss C. Beardmore. 
 
 39 
 
 I08be — Portrait of the Earl of Gowan. 
 
 Lent by The Hon. Mrs. Skeffington Smith. 
 
 IOQ. — Emma, Lady Hamilton. 
 
 By Madame Vigee Le Brun. 
 Lent by Tankerville Chamberlayne, Esq. 
 
 I09a. — Portrait of Sir John Mawbey, M.P. 
 
 Past Owner of the Epsom Manor. 
 Attributed to Romney. 
 
 Lent by G. E. Briscoe Eyre, Esq. 
 
 IIO. — King Lear and the Tempest. 
 
 Painted about 1760 at Lancaster, and disposed of by State 
 Lottery. 
 
 Lent by E. Leggatt, Esq. 
 
40 END GALLERY. 
 
 110a. — Portrait of Miss Judith Smith. 
 
 Lent by Harold A. Smith, Esq. 
 
 III. — Portrait of Miss Love. 
 
 Lent by Jas. J. Orrock, Esq., R.I. 
 
 1 1 IE* — Portrait of Captain Thos. Maude. 
 
 Lent by Rev. Wilfrid Maude Roxby. 
 
 112. — Study for Portrait of Emma, Lady 
 Hamilton, in Gouache. 
 
 Lent by T. H. Kelly, Esq. 
 
 II3. — Portrait of a Lady Reading. 
 
 Attributed to Romney. 
 
 Lent by Col. T. G. Booth. 
 
END GALLERY. 4 1 
 
 II3a. — Portrait of Two Children. 
 
 Lent by Francis B. Macdonald, Esq. 
 
 II4. — Boys Bathing. 
 
 Ex Romney .Sale. 
 
 Lent by J. G. Butcher, Esq., M.P. 
 
 II5« — Portrait of Lady Hamilton as a 
 Bacchante. 
 
 Variation of the Vernon picture. 
 
 Lent by George Harland-Peck, Esq. 
 
 Il6. — Portrait of Honora Sneyd, as Serena. 
 
 Lent by O. B. Martyn, Esq. 
 
 II^. — Emma, Lady Hamilton, as a Bacchante. 
 
 Engraved by C. Knight. Printed in colours direct from the 
 copper plate. 
 
 See Catalogue, No. 50. 
 
 Lent by Col. T. G. Booth, 
 
42 
 
 ii8.- 
 
 END GALLERY. 
 
 Four Sketches. 
 
 Lent by G. Herbert Thring, Esq. 
 
 II9* — The Spinstress, portrait of Emma, 
 Lady Hamilton. 
 
 Engraved by T. Cheesman. 
 
 Lent by George Harland-Peck, Esq. 
 
 120. — Portrait of Lady Hamilton as Bacchante. 
 
 After Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. 
 
 Mezzotint, printed in Colours from the copper plate. 
 
 Engraved by J. R. Smith. 
 
 Lent by E. Marshall Hall, Esq., Q.C. 
 
 121. —The Seamstress, portrait of Emma, 
 
 Lady Hamilton. 
 
 Engraving printed in colours. Engraved by T. Cheesman, 
 pupil of F. Bartolozzi, R.A. 
 
 Lent by George Harland-Peck, Esq. 
 
END GALLERY. 
 
 43 
 
 122. — Mezzotint, by Meyer, of Hon. Francis 
 Greville. 
 
 Proof before all letters. 
 
 Lent by Francis Harvey, Esq. 
 
 I23* — Mezzotint, by Valentine Green, of 
 The Wood Nymph. 
 
 Veiy rare. 
 
 Lent by Francis Harvey, Esq. 
 
 I23^« — Engraving in Mezzotint by Valentine 
 Green of Mrs. Yates as the Tragic 
 Mnse. 
 
 See Catalogue, No. 9. 
 
 Lent by Robert W. Hudson, Esq. 
 
 I23b. — En graving of Joseph Brant. Chief 
 of the Six Nations. 
 
 By J. R, Smith. 
 
 See Catalogue, No. 8. 
 
 Lent by Miss E. F. Foster. 
 
44 
 
 END GALLERY. 
 
 124. — Proof, Mezzotint, by W. Say, after 
 
 Masquerier, of Lady Hamilton. 
 Lent by Francis Harvey, Esq. 
 
 125. — Portrait of the Poet Hayley. 
 
 Biographer of Romney. Mezzotint Proof. 
 
 Lent by Henry Sotheran, Esq. 
 
 126. — Milton dictating " Paradise Lost." 
 
 A sketch. 
 
 Le7it by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 127. — Portrait of James Romney, brother of 
 
 the Artist. 
 
 Lent by Fritz Reiss, Esq. 
 
 128. — Portrait, supposed to be of Miss 
 
 Hopkins. 
 
 Daughter of .Sir John Hopkins, afterwards Mrs. Neville. 
 
 Lent by Sir W. Thornley Stoker Bart. 
 
END GALLERY, 
 
 45 
 
 129. — Set of the Attitudes. 
 
 Probably unique. Beautifully coloured by Grignon. 
 
 Le?it by T. D. Croft, Esq. 
 
 I3O. — Set of the Caricatures of above. 
 
 Very rare. 
 
 Lent by T. D. Croft, Esq. 
 
 131. i— Eight Studies in Red and Black 
 Crayon. 
 
 Some of which are from Emma, Lady Hamilton. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Edward Ross. 
 
 I32o — Pencil Sketch of Charles Young, the 
 Actor. 
 
 Lent by The Rev. T. S. Cooper. 
 
END GALLERY. 
 
 3- — Portrait of Win. Hayley. 
 
 Born 1745 > cae ^ 1820. 
 
 By George Romney. 
 
 Personal friend and biographer of Romney. Born at 
 Chichester. After studying at Eton, he graduated at Trinity College, 
 Cambridge. He had already evinced poetic talents, and acquired 
 some distinction by College exercises and occasional pieces, both in 
 English and Latin. In 1766 he graduated in the Middle Temple, 
 but abandoned legal studies for literary retirement at his paternal 
 estate at Eartham, in Sussex. His first attempt at public authorship 
 was a drama, Ihe Afflicted Father, which Garrick received for 
 performance but rejected. In 1792 occurred an event which, 
 perhaps, has done more to preserve his memory than any of his 
 compositions — his intimacy with Cowper. Hayley was at the time 
 preparing an edition of Milton's works, for which Cowper had also 
 an engagement. Hayley wrote to Cowper, enclosing a highly 
 complimentary sonnet ; a correspondence ensued, resulting in a 
 lasting friendship and, finally, in- the publication by Hayley of 
 1 1 The Life, Works, and Letters of Cowper" in 1803. Hayley's 
 name is also connected with that of the historian Gibbon, to whom 
 he addressed three epistles, and his intimacy with whom subjected 
 him falsely to the suspicion of free -thinking. Hayley's works are 
 numerous— dramatic, miscellaneous, on subjects of art, and poetical. 
 His "Triumphs of Music" and "Triumphs of Temper" will be 
 remembered through the caustic, though not very just, criticism of 
 Byron in his " English Bards," for which, however, he subsequently 
 made amends. He died at Felpham in 1820. Hayley was a follower 
 of Pope, and his popularity was the result of his personal amiability, 
 fine tastes, and association with other literary men. 
 
 Lent hy Efnest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
END GALLERY. 
 
 47 
 
 ^34* — Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante. 
 
 After Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. ; transcript for the 
 Engraving by J. R. Smith. 
 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 I35* — Water - Colour Drawing, containing 
 Portraits of the Poet Hayley, Mrs. 
 Hayley, and Lieut. Howell. 
 
 Painted at Eartham, 1780, by George Romney. 
 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
4« 
 
 ENTRANCE STAIRCASE. 
 
 ENTRANCE STAIRCASE. 
 
 I36. — Lady Hamilton as ' ' Sensibility/ ' 
 
 Engraved by Richard Earlom. 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 137. — Miss Martindale. 
 
 Engraved by Richard Josey. 
 Lent by Algernon Graves. Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 I38. — Mrs. Dawson. 
 
 Engraved by M. Cormack. 
 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
ENTRANCE STAIRCASE. 49 
 
 I39« — Lady Hamilton as The Spinstress. 
 
 Engraved by H. T. Greenhead. 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 Lady Hamilton when young. 
 
 Kd graved by H. T. Greenhead. 
 I^ent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 141. — Lady Hamilton as Euphrosyne. 
 
 Engraved by C. S. Shury. 
 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 140. - 
 
 142. - 
 
 Lad}/- Hamilton as Cassandra. 
 
 Engraved by Leslie Haynes. 
 Lent by Leslie Haynes, Esq. 
 
5° 
 
 ENTRANCE STAIRCASE. 
 
 143- ~~ Elizabeth, Countess of Derby. 
 
 Engraved by M. Cormack. 
 Lent by Mrs. Mendoza. 
 
 144* — The Vicountess Clifden and Lady 
 Elizabeth Spencer. 
 
 Engraved by H. T. Greenhead. 
 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 I45> — Mrs - Bankes (Miss F. Woodley). 
 
 Engraved by J. Scott-Bridgwater. 
 
 Lent by Thomas McLean, Esq. 
 
 I46. — Lady Hamilton as Circe. 
 
 Engraved by f. Scott-Bridgwater. 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
EN1RANCE STAIRCASE. 
 
 5< 
 
 147. — Diana, Lady Milner. 
 
 Engraved by W. HENDERSON. 
 
 Lent by Thomas McLean, Esq. 
 
 I4B. — Lady Hamilton as St. Cecilia. 
 
 (Printed in Colours). 
 
 Engraved by R. Earlom. 
 Modern impression from the original plate. 
 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A 
 
 149* — The Countess of Warwick. 
 
 Engraved by H. Scott-Bridgwater. 
 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 I^O. — Miss Honora Sne}-d as Serena. 
 
 (Printed in Colours). 
 
 Modern impression from the original plate. 
 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
52 ENTRANCE STAIRCASE. 
 
 151. — Miss Day. 
 
 Engraved by M. Cormack. 
 Lent by Mrs. Mendoza. 
 
 152. — Lady Poulett. 
 
 (Photograph of the size of plate now in progress.) 
 
 Engraved by Norman Hirst. 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 153- — Lady Hamilton as " Nature." 
 
 Engraved by M. Cormack. 
 Lent by Mrs. Menhoza., 
 
 154- 
 
 Lady Hamilton as Ariadne. 
 
 Engraved by H. T. GREENHEAD. 
 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
ENTRANCE STAIRCASE. 53 
 
 Mrs. Townley Ward. 
 
 Engraved by H. Scott Bridgwater. 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 Emma. 
 
 Engraved by H. Scott Bridgwater. 
 Lent by Ernest Leggatt, Esq. 
 
 Miss Close (Mrs. Mark Currie). 
 
 Engraved by H. T. Greenhead. 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 Lady Hamilton. 
 
 Engraved by CHARLES J. Tomkin. 
 Lent by Thos. McLean, Esq. 
 
54 ENTRANCE STAIRCASE. 
 
 159- — Mrs - Davies Cooke. 
 
 Engraved by H. T. Greenhead. 
 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A. 
 l60. — Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante. 
 
 Engraved by Noel B. Kenealy. 
 Lent by C. E. Clifford, Esq. 
 
 — Master Thornhill. 
 
 Engraved by James Scott. 
 Lent by Algernon Graves, Esq , F.S.A. 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Aldenham, Lord, 3, 50H. 
 
 Alston, Sir Francis Beilby, K.C.M.G , 30. 
 
 Arkwright, F. C, Esq., 66. 
 
 Ashley, The Hon. Evelyn, 27. 
 
 Beardmore, Miss C, io8a. 
 Bentinck, Mrs. Frances, 21. 
 Beresford, George Massy, Esq., 48. 
 Berwick, The Lord, 84B. 
 Booth, Col. T. G., 117. 
 Brodrick, F. H., Esq., 96. 
 Brownrigg, The Rev. Canon T. S., 101. 
 Butcher, J. G., Esq., M.P., 114. 
 
 Chamberlayne, Tankerville, Esq., 49, 50, 61, 72, 10 
 Clifford, C. E., Esq., 160. 
 
56 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Coats, Archibald, Esq., 44. 
 
 Coats, George, Esq., 43. 
 
 Cooper, The Rev. T. S., 132. 
 
 Cotton, Major-General F. Conyers, 31, 56. 
 
 Courtenay, Miss B., 85, 87. 
 
 Crespigny, G. H. C. H. de, Esq., 18. 
 
 Crewe, The Earl of, 42, 160A. 
 
 Croft, T. D., Esq., 129, 130. 
 
 Dashwood, Maj. -General R. L., 107, 108. 
 Davis, Charles, Esq., 11, 41. 
 Denison, Col., H., 68. 
 Douglas, Greville, Esq., 81. 
 Dowdeswell, C. W., Esq., 80, 88. 
 
 Eden, Sir William, Bart., 24. 
 Eyre, G. E. Briscoe, Esq., 52, 109A. 
 
 Fawkes, F. H., Esq., 47. 
 Finch-Hatton, Hon. Harold, 46. 
 Forster, Miss E. F., 8, 123B. 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
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 Fothergill, Watson, Esq., 70, 91. 
 
 Garnett, William, Esq., 22. 
 Gibbs, The Hon. Herbert C, 19. 
 Gladwin-Errington, G., Esq., 84. 
 Graham, Sir Reginald, Bart., 62, 77. 
 
 Graves, Algernon, Esq., 50L 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 144, 
 148, 150, 152, 154, 157, 159, i6r. 
 
 Grenfell, Henry R., Esq., 88a. 
 
 Grey, The Misses, 5, 17. 
 
 Hall, E Marshall, Esq., Q.C., 13, 120. 
 
 Harland-Peck, George, Esq., 35A, 55, 115, 119, 121. 
 
 Harvey, Francis, Esq., 122, 123, 124. 
 
 Hay, Sir Duncan, Bart., The Trustees of, 35. 
 
 Haynes, Leslie, Esq., 142. 
 
 Hill, Grey, Esq., 59, 64. 
 
 Hillingdon, The Lord, 15. 
 
 Holden, John, Esq., 2, 82, 94. 
 
 Hudson, Robert W., Esq., 9, I23A, 
 
 Hunt, Holman, Esq., 51 
 
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 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Iceton, William, Esq., 105. 
 Kelly, T. H., Esq., 112. 
 Lane, Hugh P., Esq., 53. 
 
 Leggatt, Ernest, Esq., 40, 50A, 50R, 50c, 50D, 50E, 50F, 
 60, 71, 89, 92, 98, i 10, 126, 13 { , 134, 135, 141, 146, 149, 
 *55, 156. 
 
 Lowther, Capt. Henry, 14, 28. 
 
 Lowther, L. C, Esq., 14, 28. 
 
 Lowther, G. A., Esq., 14, 28, 
 
 Macdonald, Francis B., Esq,, 113, 113A. 
 Madocks, H., Esq., 12. 
 Marlborough, Duke of, 4, 39. 
 Martyn, O. B., Esq., 116. 
 McLean, T., Esq., 145, 147, 158. 
 Melville, Miss Leslie, 29. 
 Mendoza, Mrs., 143, 151, 153. 
 Middleton, H. B., Esq., 10, 65. 
 Mildmay, H Bingham, Esq., 73. 
 
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 Molony, W. B., Esq., of Kiltanon, 95. 
 Morgan, J. Pierpoint, Esq., 79. 
 
 Nevinson, Edward, Esq., 76. 
 
 Orrock, Jas. J., Esq., R.I., 111. 
 Osborn, Sir Algernon, Bart., 7. 
 
 Pawle, F. C, Esq., 23, 25, 83. 
 Pemberton, C. S., Esq., 62A. 
 
 Pitt-Rivers, Lieut. -General A. H. Lane Fox, D.C.L. (since 
 deceased), 57. 
 
 Portsmouth, The Earl of, 74A. 
 
 Probert, Capt. W. G., 84A. 
 
 Raalte, Mrs. Charles Van, 50G. 
 
 Raphael, Edward Lewis, Esq., 20, 102. 
 
 Reiss, Fritz, Esq., 127. 
 
 Ross, Mrs. Edward, 131. 
 
 Roxby, Rev. Wilfrid Maude, iija. 
 
 Saumarez, The Lady de, 33, 34, 58. 
 
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 Scaiff, R. W., Esq., 99. 
 
 Shaw, Mrs. Frederick, 103. 
 
 Shoosmith, William, Esq., 93. 
 
 Sinclair, Sir j. G. Tollemache, Bart., 54, 90. 
 
 Smith, The Hon. W. F. D., M.P., 26, 100. 
 
 Smith, The Hon. Mrs. Skeffington, io8b. 
 
 Smith, Harold A., Esq., iioa. 
 
 Sotheran, Henry, Esq., 125. 
 
 Speyer, Edgar, Esq., 37, 45. 
 
 Stocks, W. F., Esq., 78. 
 
 Stoker, Sir W. Thornley, Bart., 128. 
 
 Thring, G. Herbert, Esq., 118. 
 Tremayne, Col. Arthur, 6, 32. 
 Troyte-Chafyn-Grove, G., Esq., 63, 72A. 
 
 Waldstein, Prof. Charles, 74. 
 Wallace, J. Hope, Esq., 67, 69. 
 Ward, T. Humphry, Esq., 10. 
 Webber, Thos. W., Esq., 86. 
 Wedderburn, Sir William, M.P., 36. 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 West, Col. Cornwallis, 97. 
 Whately, Rev. Canon W. J., 75. 
 Whatman, Mrs., 38. 
 Witts, Rev. F. E. Broome, 106. 
 
 Yorke, CaDt. The Hon. John, 104. 
 
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