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OF

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS:

WITH NOTICES OF SOME OF HIS COTEMPORARIES.

COMMENCED

BY CHARLES ROBERT LESLIE, R.A.

CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED

BY TOM TAYLOR, M.A.

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1865.

The right of Translation is reserved.

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LONDON PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

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Routine of Sir Joshua's life A Blue party at Mrs. Ord's - A Friday night at
the Club - A Dilettanti dinner-She Stoops to Conquer' - The Exhibi-
tion - Ugolino-Boswell admitted to the Club - The naval review-
Visit to the Isle of Wight - The Oxford degree - Letter to Mr. Gardiner -
Portrait of Dr. Beattie - Sir Joshua elected Mayor of Plympton-Presents
his portrait to the Corporation-Plan for decorating St. Paul's- Mrs.
Hartley; fracas and duel on her account-Duel between Lord Bellamont
and Lord Townshend - Lady Cockburn Streatham Gallery - Mrs.
Thrale's verses on Sir Joshua - Dr. Barnard's verses - A dinner in
Thrale's copper-Sitters for 1773-(1774) Letter to Beattie - Decoration
of the Society of Arts' room in the Adelphi - Barry's quarrel with Burke-
Goldsmith's embarrassments and Retaliation' His illness and death-
The Academy dinner and Exhibition - Hannah More's introduction to Sir
Joshua-Gainsborough comes to London Sir Joshua's nephew's tragedy
-Visit to Devonshire - Dissolution of Parliament - Analysis of the
Sixth Discourse-Sitters for 1774 - Sir Joshua's practice at this time-
(1775) Outbreak of war in America-Sir Joshua's connection with the
prominent men on both sides - The public indifference to the war - The
Duchess of Devonshire - Mrs. Sheridan - Omiah-Johnson attacks Sir
Joshua for drinking wine - Hannah More in London again-The feather
head-dresses- A dinner at Mrs. Montague's-Jephson's 'Braganza' -
The Dilettanti choose two pensioners - Dr. Campbell's impressions of Dr.
Johnson-The wits at Mrs. Abington's benefit- A dinner at Thrale's - A
field-day at the Club - A dinner at Owen Cambridge's - Hanging troubles
-Hone's picture of 'The Conjuror'-The Academy dinner - The Exhi-
bition-Walpole's account of it-Sir Joshua's pictures - Portrait of the
Primate of Ireland-Wolcot's testimony to Sir Joshua's equanimity - The
regatta-Romney in fashion-The portrait of Miss Bowles - Northcote
gives Sir Joshua notice to quit-Some of his recollections - Deaths of
Admiral Saunders, Dr. Nugent, and Mrs. Parker-Sir Joshua's character
of her-Motion to omit
Barry's self-denying resolutions- Pictures and practice of the year.. Page 1
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Hannah More's letters-Visit to Sir Joshua's studio - The infant Samuel

-The portrait of Garrick — His farewell performances · The trial of

the Duchess of Kingston - Foote at the Academy dinner - The Exhi-

bition Mrs. Siddons's first appearance in London -- Northcote leaves

Sir Joshua Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith Reynolds sends his

portrait to Florence Letter to Signor Pelli - The Discourses translated

into Italian- Hayman's death-The Seventh Discourse- The practice

and pictures of the year (1777) Sir Joshua's society - Proposes Dr. J.

Warton at the Club- At the Ladies' Club balls - Gaieties with Gibbon

- At Sheridan's plays - Barry undertakes the decoration of the Great

Room at the Society of Arts - The Exhibition- -The St. George Lady

C. Montagu―The Dilettanti pictures - Political events-H. More's ode

to 'Dragon' Garrick in the House of Commons — H. More's' Percy '—

'The Lives of the Poets'- Sheridan elected at the Club - The Marlborough

family-picture- The New College window Death of Toms - Sitters for

1777 (1778) Evelina' appears - Miss Burney and Sir Joshua - An

April evening at the Club — Dinners at Leicester Fields, Paoli's, Ramsay's

The Exhibition -

Politics-

- Narrow escape of Marlborough picture-

Prospects of invasion- - Sir Joshua visits the camps - Death of Chatham

-Keppel at Ushant - Publication of the seven Discourses- The Eighth

Discourse- Practice and sitters of the year-(1779) Keppel's court

martial Sir Joshua's letter on his acquittal - Keppel's portrait painted

for Burke, Lee, and Dunning - Burke's letters on it-Miss Burney's first

party at Sir Joshua's — Garrick's death and funeral - Reynolds's imagin-

ary Dialogues on Garrick - The Exhibition - The Nativity - At the

Club At the ball of the Knights of the Bath - The King sits to him —

Fears of invasion Social estimates of Reynolds-Miss Monckton

Sitters for 1779

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