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1 Mem. March 21.-" Lord and Lady Pembroke to be finished."

2 Mem. Sat. 13.-"Sir Geoffrey Amherst to be finished."

3 "Sir Thomas Ackland, at Killerton, near Exeter" (Mem. In April). 4" Duchess of Ancaster, sketch" (Mem. March 24).

5 "To be finished."

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April.-"Mr. Lambton, Princes' Street, Hanover Square; to be sent there, packed up.”

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Mr. and Miss Grimston; Miss Williams; Mr. Hastings; Lord Malden; Sir William Maynard; " Sir Gerard Napier."

May.

Duchess of Manchester; Lord Mandeville; Lady Mary Fox; the Solicitor-General (Dunning); Mrs. Bromberg; Mr. Meynell; Duchess of Marlborough; Lord Eglintoun; Master Watson, Mr. Montague Parker; Mr. Crut

tenden.

June.10

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Lord Rockingham; Mr. Lascelles; Mrs. Halsey; Mr. Gell; "1 Mr. Lethbridge; Miss Parker.

July, 12

Mr. Price; Duke of Grafton.

8 Mem.-"Lord Maynard to be sent 29th April; Charles Lord Viscount Maynard, 1767, æt. 76; Sir William Maynard at the back, 1768, 47."

9 Mem." Sir Gerard Napier to be finished, 28th April."

10 All but a blank from June 9 to end of the month.-Mem. "To inquire for a man that paints chiaro 'scuro."

11 Mem." Phillip Gell, Esq., at Hopton, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire." 12 Mem." Mr. Parry went to

7 To draw out an advertisement; Wales for one month, Wed. 20 July." Miller, bookseller; two guineas per-This was Reynolds's Welsh pupil, volume, 4 vols. in all; the impress. of the first vol. is expected daily. (? The 'Antiquities of Ionia,' published by the Dilettanti Society.)

son of a famous blind harper. The young man was now proceeding to Sir William Wynne's, who afterwards sent him to Rome.-ED.

August-(almost blank).

Mrs. Philips (to be finished); Mrs. Musgrave (to be finished).

(From September 9 to October 23 Reynolds was absent on his Parisian trip.)

1 Mem." Mr. Woodcock's picture to be sent to Mr. Woodcock's, King's Row, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury Square."

2 Mem." Sir W. Blackett's picture to be sent directed for Sir John Trevelyan, Bart., at Nettlecombe, by Whitemarsh's Taunton waggon."

The only references I find to Academy engagements this year are for 6 on Saturday the 17th of December, for 7 on Friday the 23rd, and for the same hour on Friday the 30th. There is a note of letters to be written to the Palmers and Youngs at Torrington, and to Mr. Hoare and Gainsborough at Bath, about the 21st of November, which no doubt were to announce to the friends and relatives in Devonshire the news that the Academy was instituted and Reynolds appointed its first President, and to invite the two Bath artists to join.

Other notes of this year referring to his practice are "Duchess of Ancaster,

October.

Robert Fletcher.

Mr. Gage; Mr. Simmons; Sir

November.

Master Whitbread; Mr. Jones. December.2 3

Captain Bowyer.]

prima magilp, olio, terza olio.

"Lady Almeria Carpenter, Mrs. Cholmondeley, con magilp, senza olio. "Mio proprio (my own portrait) given to Mrs. Burke. Cera, finito quasi, poi con mastic ver. finito interamente, poi cerata senza colori.

"Offe's picture (his niece Theophila), painted with cera and cop (copaiba), solo cinnabro (vermilion). Glazing senza olio, vernice of mastic solo, Yeo's yellow vern.: blue. Sir Charles Bunbury, Master Bunbury. Jan. 5, 1768.

“July 29, 1768, In vece di nero si puo servire di turchino (blue) e cinnabro e lacca giallo (probatum est, Nov. 20, 1768). Second sitting too yellow. The glazing di cinnabro e turchino, Dec. 16, 1768, senza cera.”

Here we see him, dissatisfied with the effect of this mixture of blue, vermilion, and yellow lake, adopted as a substitute for black in glazing in July, by a subsequent note of Dec. omitting the yellow lake.-ED.

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CHAPTER V.

1769-1772. ÆTAT. 46-49.

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Sketch of Royal Academy in Annual Register — Site, &c., of the Academy — Francklin's Ode-The President's First Discourse - Dinner at the St. Albans Arrangement of the course of study — The President knighted -The first Exhibition - Its chief attractions - West's 'Regulus' — Sir Joshua's pictures - Mrs. Bouverie and Mrs. Crewe - Dinner with the Hornecks at Dr. Baker's His circle - At the masquerade — At Vauxhall - The Stratford Jubilee ---- Dinner at Boswell's — Baretti's trial - First distribution of prizes at the Academy The Second Discourse analysed Sir Joshua's tenderness to a robber - A letter to Barry Sitters for 1769 -Notes of his practice at this time (1770) - Politics of the year - Resignation of the Grafton Administration The authorship of Junius'Sitters Mrs. Trecothick - The Ugolino' begun - Death of the Marquis of Granby, Lord Ligonier, and Sir John Cust-The President in society-The Thursday night Club's masquerade - The Exhibition Walpole on the art-exhibition mania of the day- Sir Joshua's pictures for the year The Babes in the Wood' - Mary Moser's critique on the Exhibition-Portrait of Goldsmith - Reynolds's regard for him- The Deserted Village'- Paints the King Visits York and Devonshire - Brings his niece "Offey" to London · Election of Associates- Distribution of prizes Third Discourse analysed - The Grand Style-Sitters and practice of 1770. (1771). Decrease of sitters - Romney - Political events and connections The Academy installed at Somerset House - The President at the Club - Walpole and Masaccio - Sir Joshua's dinners - Fancy pictures - Beggar-boys Old White His society Sir Thomas Mills Cumberland - Struggles in Parliament - Sir Joshua's clubs - Gambling - Mrs. Cornelys's masquerades Mrs. Abington-Mrs. Baddeley - Lady Waldegrave The Duchess of Cumberland - Miss Polly Kennedy - Her story The first Academy dinner-The Exhibition -Sir Joshua's pictures Barry's return from Rome - His 'Adam and Eve'- Earlom's picture of the Exhibition - West's 'Death of Wolfe' - Northcote comes up to London - Johnson's thanks for his portrait - Installation of the Knights of the Garter at Windsor Sir Joshua robbed of his hat and watch - Visit to Paris Northcote's life at Sir Joshua's - Analysis of the Fourth Discourse - Generality the characteristic of great art Sitters for 1771. (1772). Ugolino- Hebe - Portrait of Bankes - Opening of the Pantheon - Mrs. Baddeley and her escort - A Pantheon masquerade- Election of Academicians - Garrick and Mrs. Garrick sit to him- Northcote's overhearings His introduction to Goldsmith - Interesting sitters - Dunning - Mrs. Crewe The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland - The Royal Marriage Act The Exhibitions - Sir Joshua's pictures at the Acade -Zoffany's picture of the Academicians - Sir Joshua at the installat

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the Knights of the Bath-The Fordyce failure - Mrs. Yates sits-Mrs. Montague and the Blues- Burke offered an Indian appointment - CareClouds at Streatham - Colonel Dow's tragedies - Sir Joshua at Marylebone Gardens Elected an Alderman of Plympton -- A party to see the Puppets His visiting-circle- Analysis of the Fifth Discourse.

1769, ætat. 46.—[THE Royal Academy was constituted. Of the general design, aims, and appliances of the Institution, I know no better summary than that published in the chronicle of the Annual Register for December, 1768.

"The principal object of this institution is to be the establishment of well-regulated schools of design, where students in the art may find that instruction which hath so long been wanted, and so long wished for in this country. For this end, therefore, there will be a winter academy of living models of different characters to draw after, and a summer academy of living models of different characters to paint after; there will also be laymen, with all sorts of draperies, both ancient and modern, and choice casts of all the celebrated antique statues, groups, and bassorelievos. Nine of the ablest academicians, elected annually from amongst the forty, are to attend these schools by rotation, to set the figures, to examine the performance of the students, to advise and instruct them, and to turn their attention towards that branch of the arts for which they shall seem to have the aptest disposition.

"And in order to instruct the students in the principles and laws of composition, to strengthen their judgment, to form their taste of design and colouring, to point out to them the beauties and imperfections of celebrated performances, and the particular excellences and defects of great masters, to fit them for an unprejudiced study of books, and to lead them into the readiest and most efficacious paths of study, there are appointed a professor of painting, a professor of architecture, one of anatomy, and one of perspective, who are annually to read a certain number of public lectures in the schools, calculated for the purposes above recited.

"Furthermore, there will be a library of books of architecture, sculpture, painting, and all the sciences relating thereto; also

of prints of bas-reliefs, vases, trophies, ornaments, ancient and modern dresses, customs and ceremonies, instruments of war and arts, utensils of sacrifice, and all other things useful to students in the arts.

"The admission of all these establishments will be free to all students properly qualified to reap advantage from such studies as are there cultivated. The professors and academicians, who instruct in the schools, have each of them proper salaries annexed to their employment; as have also the treasurer, the keeper of the Royal Academy, the secretary, and all other persons employed in the management of the said institution; and his Majesty hath, for the present, allotted a large house in Pall Mall for the purpose of the schools, &c.

"And that the effects of this truly royal institution may be conspicuous to the world, there will be an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and designs, open to all artists of distinguished merit, where they may offer their performances to public view, and acquire that degree of fame and encouragement which they shall be deemed to deserve.

"But as all men who enter the career of the arts are not equally successful, and as some unhappily never acquire either fame or encouragement, but, after many years of painful study, at a time of life when it is too late to think of other pursuits, find themselves destitute of every means of subsistence; and as others are, by various infirmities incident to man, rendered incapable of exerting their talents, and others are cut off in the bloom of life, before it could be possible to provide for their families, his Majesty, whose benevolence and generosity overflow in every action of his life, hath allotted a considerable sum, annually to be distributed, for the relief of indigent artists and their distressed families."

From the time the Academy was established the President took the most active part in its organization and guidance, both in the council and the schools. The pocket-book for 1769 bears evidence to Sir Joshua's constant attendance at the seat of the institution. The new Academy was not magnificently lodged. Its first quarters were in Dalton's print-warehouse, for

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