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. Routine of Sir Joshua's life A Blue party at Mrs. Ord's - A Friday night at 4867 (RECAP) JAN 291909 236713 - - 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 - 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 - .. - - - - Page 147 Work of the year - Keppel portraits - At Belvoir-General Oglethorpe Beauclerk's death - Johnson's Diary - The Academy at Somer- set House Exhibition of the year-The three Ladies Waldegrave May engagements - Letter to Pocock-The No-Popery riots - Princess Daschkaw Out of town-At Bagshot with Keppel, and at Spitchwick with Dunning-Address on opening the schools - The Tenth Discourse Sitters of the year -(1781) The Streatham portraits - Letter to W. Johnson - Offy married- A day at Sir Joshua's with Miss Burney- |