OF THE Royal House of Guelph. The New Gallery, Regent Street. 1891. arrangement of tbe lEybibiUon. WEST GALLERY. The Royal Room. NORTH GALLERY. Statesmen and Commanders. SOUTH GALLERY. Arts, Letters, and Science. CENTRAL HALL. Historical Collection of China, &c. BALCONY. Pictures, Drawings, and Manuscripts. THE GETTY GENTEH patron, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. lt)ice*1Patrons» H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. Ube General Committee. President : THE MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN, K.T., LL.D., Secretary for Scotland. Vice-Presideftt : THE EARL OF WHARNCLIFFE. The Earl of Albemarle, F.S.A., F.R.G.S. W. R. Baker, Esq. General The Viscount Bridport, Duke of Bronte, K.C.B. E. A. Bond, Esq., C.B., LL.D., F.S.A. Sir Algernon Borthwick, Bart., M.P. The Earl Brownlow. The Duke of Buccleuch, K.T. The Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos. Sir Frederick W. Burton, Knt., R.H.A., F.S.A., Director of the National Gallery. Charles Butler, Esq., F.R.G.S. The Lord Carlingford, K.P. The Earl of Carlisle. *J. COMYNS Carr, Esq. The Earl of Chichester. J. W. Clark, Esq., F.S.A. Sidney Colvin, Esq. W. M. Conway, Esq., F.S.A. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The Earl of Crawford, LL.D., F.R.S.. F.S.A. The Viscount Cross, G.C.B., F.R.S., Secretary of State for India. *G. MiLNER-GlBSON-CULLUM, Esq., F.S.A. *LlONEL CUST, Esq., F.S.A. The Lord de Lisle and Dudley. The Duke of Devonshire, K.G., LL.D., F.R.S. *The Hon. Harold Dillon, Secretary Society of Antiquaries. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Martin Dillon, K.C.B., C.S.I. Henry Austin Dobson, Esq. The Lord Donington. Henry E. Doyle, Esq., C.B., R.H.A., Director of the National Gallery of Ireland. The Lady Louisa Egerton. *JOHN Evans, Esq., D.C.L., Treas. R.S., President of the Society of Antiquaries. The Hon. Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane, K.C.B. The Duke of Fife, K.T. Basil Fitzherbert, Esq. C. Drury Fortnum, Esq., D.C.L., F.S.A. A. W. Franks, Esq., C.B., F.R.S., LittD., V.P. Society of Antiquaries. Edmund Gosse, Esq. Lord Ronald Gower. Vice-Admiral Sir William Graham, K.C.B., President of Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The Marquess of Granby, M.P. vi Prefatory Note. walls. F'or valuable assistance in the arrangement of the collection they have also to offer their thanks to Mr. I. Spielmann, Mrs. Grueber, the Hon. Harold Dillon, Mr. Lionel Cust, Mrs. H. Jenner, Mr. F. M. O'Donoghue : to the Directors of the Gallery and their Secretary : and to Mr. Leonard C. Lindsay, the Secretary of the Guelph Exhibition, for his continued and valuable services in the organization and control of every department. The Exhibition will remain open to the public till the 4th April, from 10 to 6 daily. The Directors of the New Gallery hope this extremely interesting series of Historical Exhibitions may be continued in the winter of next year, when it is proposed to illustrate the Reign of her Majesty the Queen. THE HOUSE OF GUELPH. The House of Guelph became extinct in the male line in 1047. Its line may be traced in a shadowy manner from the Dukes of Alsace or earlier from certain of the Prankish Mayors of the Palace down to a more certain Warinus, Lord of Altdorf in Suabia, who lived about the year 750, and was one of the Counts of the Court of Carloman. His son Isenbart married Irmentrude, daughter of Childbrand, Duke of Suabia, and sister of Hildegarde, wife of Charles the Great. To her is attributed the legendary origin of the name of the House. It is said that, seeing a woman nursing twins, she expressed a doubt as to the possibility of twins by the same father. Por her strange physiological theory she was punished by herself having twelve children at a birth. Being naturally annoyed at this, she directed the nurse to destroy eleven of them ; Isenbart, meeting her on her way to obey the command, asked her what she was carrying, to which she replied, "Whelps for drowning." Isenbart, however, discovered what they were and saved their lives, and from them descend many of the great German Houses. The eldest was called Welf or Guelph, to com- memorate the incident, and with him, who died in 820, the House of Guelph eo nomine begins. By grants, inheritance, and marriage, the Guelphs acquired very large dominions in Bavaria, and after two centuries more the main line ended in an heiress, Cunigunda, daughter of Guelph III., who married in 1040, Azo d'Este, Marquis of Este, Milan, &c., whose descendants by her adopted the surname of Guelph. Thus it is that the Royal House of Hanover is in the male line the House of Este, and undoubtedly its proper name is " Guelph d'Este." viii The House of Guelph. The House of Este claims very high antiquity. It professes to descend from Actius (hence the name Azd) in the reign of the elder Tarquin. The pedigree, however, remains vague and improbable for the first thousand years or more, and the earliest certain ancestor of the House seems to be Albert of Este, who died in 938. He was Count of Este (a place some twenty miles to the south-west of Padua) and also Marquis of Tuscany. It was his great-grandson who married the heiress of the Guelphs. Azo Guelph d'Este married a second time Garsenda or Ermengarda, daughter of Hugh or Herbert, Count of Maine, and from Fulk, the son of this marriage, descended that line of Este, Dukes of Modena and Ferrara, to which the wife of King James II. belonged, which became extinct in the male line at the death in 1803 of Ercole Rinaldo, whose representative in the female line, curiously enough, represents also the Royal House of Stuart. Guelph, the son of the first marriage, was the ancestor of the House of Brunswick, which is therefore the elder branch of the House of Este. More and more did the House of Guelph acquire power and sovereignty. Through the marriage of Henry, son of Guelph, with Wolfhilda, daughter of Magnus, Duke of Old Saxony, and of his son, Henry the Proud, with Gertrude, heiress of Brunswick, they added the great dominions of the Houses of Witekind and Billung in North Germany to their Bavarian lands, until the next of the line, Henry the Lion, could say : — " Heinrich der Lowe bin ich genannt. In aller Welt und Weit bekannt ; Von der Elbe bis an den Rhein, Vom Harz bis an die See war mein." Henry the Lion, however, for opposing the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was deprived of his Bavarian and Saxon dominions and driven into exile at the Court of Henry II. of England, whose daughter Matilda he had married. His son Otto became Emperor in 1198, butwas deposed in 1212. It is curious that though a Guelph by family he seems to have sided with the Ghibelline faction against the Pope as soon as he became Emperor. His abdication was caused by his defeat by Philip Augustus of France at the The House of Guelph. ix Battle of Bouvines, where the help of John of England was of no avail to him. William of Winchester, called Longsword, the brother of Otto, con- tinued the line, through his grandson Albert, who became Duke of Brunswick, and died in 1279. The custom of subdivision of territory seems to have become systematic in his time, though several separated lines subsequently became extinct and their territories were reunited. Two sons of Albert, Henry and Albert, founded the two- branches of Grubenhagen and Hanover, the first becoming extinct in 1596, and the second receiving the dominions of Wolfenbiittel on the death of a third brother William. The line of the second, Albert, continued, and Magnus Torquatus, his grandson, at his death in 1373, gave Wolfenbiittel to his son Henry and Luneburg to his son Bernard. The line of Henry became extinct in 1634. and Wolfenbiittel reverted to Augustus, son of Henry, eldest son of Ernest of Brunswick-Luneburg, the descendant of the above-mentioned Bernard, while the possessions of Luneburg were held by the descendants of Ernest's second son, William. From this time the two Houses of Brunswick- Luneburg and Brunswick-Wolfenbiittel remained distinct, until by the death of the last Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbiittel, in 1884, the heirship of his dominions reverted to Ernest, King of Hanover, and Duke of Cumberland, the head of the House of Brunswick-Luneburg. William, the son of Ernest of Brunswick-Luneburg, was the father of George, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, whose son Ernest was created Elector of Hanover in 1692 and married Sophia, youngest child of Frederick, Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth, daughter of King James L of Great Britain and Ireland. As all the senior descendants of James L were Roman Catholics, the Act of Settlement excluded them, and entailed the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland on the descendants of the Electress Sophia. The excluded lines were those of James IL, of Henrietta of Orleans, daughter of Charles I., and of the elder children of Elizabeth of Bohemia. The Electress Sophia died on the 8th of June, 17 14, losing by not quite two months the succession to the Crown of England. Her son, George I., succeeded on the first of August, 1714. In 1816 the title of Elector of Hanover was changed to that of King, and in 1837, in consequence of the SaHc form of X The House of Guelph. succession in Hanover, the Crown of that country was separated from that of England, and given to Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, whose son, George V., was deprived of his kingdom by the Prussians in 1867, and the possessions of the House of Brunswick-Luneburg were incorporated in those of the House of Hohenzollern. In i860 the head, in the female line, of the younger branch of the House of Este, Francis V., Duke of Modena, was deprived of his Italian possessions, so that now this great .House, the possessor of one of the most magnificent pedigrees in Europe, has lost absolutely all of its hereditary dominions. Note on the Guelphs and Ghibellines. — The origin of these party names is somewhat curious. In Suabia the rival to the House of Guelph was that of Weiblingen, which, according to some, was a branch of the same family. The rivalry had nothing to do with Italian parties, but when Frederick (Barbarossa) of Hohenstauffen, the descendant of Frederick, Freiherr of Weiblingen and Hohenstauffen, became Emperor in 1152, and Henry the Lion, his hereditary enemy, took the Pope's side against him, the names of the two families noted for their hostility in their own country were adopted in Italy — Guelph for the Papal party, and Weiblingen, Italianized into Ghibelline, for the Imperial. These names continued long after the fall of the House of Suabia had taken the Weiblingen family away from the con- tests, and it was not until the rise of the House of Visconti at the end of the fourteenth century united Italy against a common eneniy that the parties and their names ceased to exist. CHRONOLOGY OF FROM REMARKABLE 1714— 1837. EVENTS GEORGE I. (1714-1727). 1 7 14. Townshend Prime Minister. 1 71 5. Jacobite Rising. The Chevalier in Scot- land. 1 717. Stanhope Prime Minister. 1 7 18. The Spanish fleet defeated at Cape Passaro by Byng. 1720. The South Sea Bubble. 1 72 1. Death of Stanhope. Walpole Prime Minister. 1727. Death of the King. GEORGE II. (1 727-1 760). 1739. War declared against Spain. ,, Capture of Porto Bello. Anson begins his voyage round the world. 1741. Retirement of Walpole. Lord Wilmington Prime Minister. 1743. Battle of Dettingen. ,, Pelham Prime Minister. 1745. Battle of Fontenoy. Rising in Scotland. 1746. Battle of Culloden. 175 1. Death of Frederick, Prince of Wales. 1754. Death of Pelham. Duke of Newcastle Prime Minister. 1756. Minorca captured by the French. 1757. Execution of Admiral Byng. ,, Pitt's first Administration. 1759* Hawke's victory at Quiberon. Quebec taken. Death of Wolfe. 1760. Canada conquered. Death of George II. GEORGE III. {1760-1820). 1 76 1. Resignation of Pitt. 1762. Lord Bute Prime Minister. 1763. Resignation of Lord Bute. George Gren- ville Prime Minister. Arrest of Wilkes on " a general warrant." 1765. Resignation of Grenville. Marquess of Rockingham Prime Minister. 1766. Resignation of Rockingham. Pitt created Earl of Chatham, His second Ministry. Duke of Grafton Prime Minister. 1768. Resignation of Pitt. 1770. Resignation of the Duke of Grafton. Lord North Prime Minister. 1775. Commencement of the American War of Independence. 1778. Death of Chatham. 1779. War with Spain. 1780. Rodney's Victory off Cape St. Vincent. 1782. Resignation of Lord North. Marquess of Rockingham's second Administration. Rodney's Victory over De Grasse in the West Indies. ,, Relief of Gibraltar by Lord Howe. 1783. Resignation of Shelburne. ,, Coalition Ministry. Pitt Prime Minister. 1786. Impeachment of Warren Hastings. 1797. Victory of Jervis off Cape St. Vincent. Victory of Duncan off Camperdown. 1798. French Expedition to Egypt. ,, Nelson's Victory at the Nile. 1801. Resignation of Pitt. Addington Prime Minister. xii Chronology of Remarkable Events. 1801. Battle of Copenhagen. , , Battle of Alexandria. 1804. Pitt's Second Administration. 1805. Battle of Trafalgar, and death of Nelson. 1806. Death of Pitt. Lord Grenville Prime Minister. Death of Fox. 1807. Duke of Portland Prime Minister. Bombardment of Copenhagen. 1808. Battle of Vimiera, and occupation of Lisbon by the British troops. 1809. Battle of Corunna, and death of Sir John Moore. Battle of Talavera. 1809. Perceval Prime Minister. 1810. Battle of Busaco. Lines of Torres Vedras occupied. 181 1. The Regency. Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro and Albuera. 181 2. Assassination of Perceval. Lord Liver- pool Prime Minister. Capture of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. Battle of Salamanca. 1 81 3. Battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees. Capture of St. Sebastian. Wellington enters France. 1814. Battle of Toulouse. Abdication of Napoleon. 1815. Battle of Waterloo. Peace of Paris. 181 6. Bombardment of Algiers. 1817. Death of Princess Charlotte. 1820. Death of George III. GEORGE IV. (1820-1830). 1820. Trial of Queen Caroline. 1 82 1. Death of Queen Caroline. 1827. Canning Prime Minister, his death. Lord Goderich Prime Minister. 1828. Duke of Wellington Prime Minister. 1830. Death of George IV. WILLIAM IV. , (183Q-1837). 1 83 1. Resignation of the Duke of Wellington. Earl Grey Prime Minister. 1832. Reform Bill passed. 1833. Abolition of Slavery. 1834. Lord Melbourne Prime Minister. ,, Sir Robert Peel Prime Minister. 1835. Lord Melbourne's Second Administration. 1837. Death of William IV. CATALOGUE The Numbers commence in tJie West Gallery, and continue from left to right. *^* Throughout the Catalogue, in describing the pictures and medals, the RIGHT and the LEFT mean those of the spectator facing the portrait. His or her apply strictly to the persons represented. The works are catalogued under the 7iames given to them by the Contributors. The Committee can accept no responsibility as to their authenticity. WEST GALLERY. THE ROYAL ROOM. 1. Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I. (1666-1726). Daughter of George William, Duke of Zelle ; born September 15, 1666 ; married November 21, 1682, George Lewis, hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg, afterwards Elector, and King of England. Being accused of adultery with the Count of Koningsmark, she was separated from her husband in 1694, and compelled to reside at the Schloss of Ahlden on the Liineberger Heide, where she died, November 13, 1726. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated facing, head to left, in pale pink dress and blue mantle lined with ermine ; her hair is arranged in large curls over the temples ; landscape in background. Canvas 54 x 47 in. By H. H. Quitter. Lent by The Duke of Marlborough. V P. 2 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 2. Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-175 i). Statesman, diplomatist, &c. Son of Henry, Viscount St. John, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford ; entered Parliament for Wootton Basset, and, attaching himself to Robert Harley, became Secretary for War during the period of Marlborough's most brilliant victories, 1704- 1707. When Harley was again at the head of affairs in 17 10, St. John became Secretary of State, took a prominent part in settling the peace of Utrecht, and in 17 12 was raised to the peerage as Viscount Bolingbroke. On the accession of George I. he was deprived of office, impeached and attainted, and retiring to the Continent, openly served the Chevalier. Being restored in blood in 1723 he returned to England, bitterly opposed Walpole, and espoused the cause of Frederick Prince of Wales. He was an intimate friend of Pope and Dean Swift. To Bolingbroke Pope dedicated his Essay on Man. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, head facing, in peer's robes, lace cravat and wig; left hand resting on table on which is coronet, left on his hip ; architectural back- ground. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By PoMPEO Battoni. Lent by The Lord Bagot. 3. Charles Mordaunt, 3RD Earl of Peterborough, K.G. [m^Kdk (1658-1735)- tnrwa/T^* Son of John, Lord Mordaunt, whom he succeeded in 1675; entered the navy and JfU li'-Je/t distinguished himself against the Moors in Tangier, 1680. He accompanied the Prince of i\ Orange to England ; was created Earl of Monmouth in 1689, and succeeded to the ^'^^('^ ] • earldom of Peterborough on the death of his uncle in 1697. He was appointed in 1705 Commander-in-Chief of the English forces in Spain ; took Barcelona, and afterwards successfully defended that city. For these services he received the thanks of Parliament, and in 17 13 was created a K.G. During the reign of George L he was made General of the Marines. He died on his passage to Lisbon. Three-quarter length, life-size, nearly full-face, in Garter robes, collar, &c., and wig ; thumb of right hand thrust into his belt, left arm rests on table on which is placed his plumed hat. Canvas 48 X 38 in. By M. Dahl. Lent by The Earl of Carlisle. 4. Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, and Lady Fitz- HARDING. The Duchess was the second daughter of Richard Jennings of Sandridge, Hertford. At twelve years old she was received with her sister into the household of Mary, Duchess of York, and became attendant to Princess Anne. Married in 1678 Col. John Churchill, afterwards Duke of Marlborough ; appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess and accompanied her in her flight on the landing of the Prince of Orange. A correspondence was carried on by the Princess and her under the names of Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman. On the accession of Queen Anne she interfered much in political matters : was supplanted by her cousin Mrs. Masham, and finally left the Court in 17 10. Wrote memoirs of her Court life : and died October, 1744. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 3 Lady Fitzharding, daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, was governess to William, Duke of Gloucester, and assisted the Princess Anne in making her escape in 1688. She married John, Viscount Fitzharding, and died in 1708, in her 52nd year. Three-quarter length, life-size figures ; the Duchess , and Lady Fitzharding playing at cards ; the latter holds the nine of diamonds conspicuously to the spectator ; the former is seated on a parapet, on which she rests her left hand. Inscribed G. Knellerft, 1691. Canvas 58 x 43 in. The Duchess, in her "Account of her Conduct," admits her partiality to'cards, and says of Lady Fitzharding that she was more than anybody in Queen Mary's favour, and one " for whom it was well known I had a singular affection!" By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Duke of Marlborough. 5. Admiral John Byng (1704-1757). Son of George, Viscount Torrington, entered the Navy under his 'father's auspices, rose to be Admiral, prevented suppHes coming from France to Scotland in 1745, and rendered other services. His attempts to relieve Fort St. Phihp in Minorca in 1756, when blockaded by the French fleet, proved abortive, and his hesitation in engaging the enemy, when a bold attack might perhaps have led to victory, drew the clamours of the nation against him. He was tried by court-martial, condemned and shot at Portsmouth, March 14, 1757, meeting death with calm resignation. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, head facing ; in naval uniform and wig ; his right arm rests on a gun, the hand holding a baton ; under his left arm, his hat ; in the background, naval engagement. Canvas 50 X 40 in. Lent by The Earl of Strafford. 6. George I. (1660-1727). Son of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, and Sophia, daughter of Frederick, Elector Palatine, and granddaughter of James L of England ; born at Osnaburg, May 28, 1660, succeeded to the electorate on the death of his father in 1698, and ascended the throne of England on the death of Queen Anne, August i, 17 14. Died at Osnaburg, June 11, 1727. Married Sophia Dorothea of Zelle, November 21, 1682, by whom he had two children, George Augustus (George IL), and Sophia Dorothea, Queen of Prussia. Full-length, life-size, facing ; red coat and hose, full brown wig ; in right hand his hat ; his left thrust in his coat ; in background landscape through open window. Canvas 87 X 52 in. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Duke of Fife, K.T. 5 7. Robert Harley, ist Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). Statesman. Son of Sir Edward Harley ; at the Revolution was returned as M.P. for Tregony, Cornwall ; appointed Speaker 1700-5, and Secretary of State 1704-8, when he was forced to resign, being accused of correspondence with Prince James, the Chevaher. In 17 10 he was constituted a Commissioner of the Treasury, and in the same year narrowly escaped assassination from the hands of a Frenchman, the Marquis de Guiscard ; was raised to the peerage as 1st Earl of Oxford in 1711, and Prime Minister, B 2 4 Exkibition of the Royal House of Guelp/i. 1711-14. In 171 5 he was impeached by the House of Commons, committed to the Tower for two years, but acquitted by his peers in 17 17. Died May 21, 1724. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, in Speaker's robes, holding in right hand a copy of the Succession Bill ; left resting on his hip. Canvas 49 x 39 in. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The DuKE OF Portland. 8. George L, as Elector (1660-1727). Dated 1705. Three-quarter length, life-size, in steel armour, with red mantle and white fur, and ribbon of the Garter, holding truncheon in right hand, the Electoral cap on the rock at his elbow ; blue sky background. Canvas 54 x 45 in. This picture was probably the work of Hirschmann. There is a fine mezzotint engraving after a similar picture by John Smith. By H. H. Quitter. Lent by The Duke of Marlborough. 9. Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, K.G. (1683-1767). Grandson of King Charles IL and Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, succeeded to the Dukedom on the death of his father, who was killed at the siege of Cork in 1690, and after extensive travelling on the Continent, held several appointments in the royal household, and in 1720 was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He was elected a K.G. in the following year, and on all occasions of George I. quitting his dominions was nominated one of the Chief Justices of Great Britain. In 1724 he was appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Household, and retained the office till his death in 1767. Half length, life-size, facing, head to left, red coat, blue cap ; right hand holding his coat. Canvas 35 x 27 in. (Kitcat Club.) By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. R. Baker, Esq. 10. John Churchill, ist Duke of Marlborough, K.G. (1650-1722). Pre-eminent as a general and statesman. Son of Sir Winston Churchill ; born at Ashe, Devonshire ; was page of honour to the Duke of York ; obtained an ensigncy in the Guards, served at Tangiers in 167 1 ; under the Duke of Monmouth, against the Dutch in 1672 ; and under the influence of the Duke of York was created Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the peerage of Scotland in 1682. At James's accession he was advanced to the English peerage ; aided in the defeat of Monmouth, then joined the Prince of Orange, and voted in the " Convention " Parliament, and was created Earl of Marlborough in 1689. Appointed by Queen Anne Captain-General of the Forces in the Low Countries, he gained the victory of Blenheim in 1704; Ramillies, in 1706; Oudenarde, in 1708 ; and Malplaquet in 1709. He was created a Duke for his first campaign of 1702. He subsequently lost the favour of Queen Anne and retired abroad, but was reinstated by George I. He married Sarah, daughter of R. Jennings (see No. 4). The Duke is on horseback holding his Marshal's baton, crowned by Victory, and surrounded by figures of Justice, Discord, Hercules, an emblematical female figure of Lille offering model of city, above Amorini in clouds. Canvas 35 X 28 in. By Sir G. Kneller and Price Ryat. Lent by The Earl of Chichester. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 5 11. Caroline, wife of George II. (1682-1737). Daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg Anspach, born 1682, married at Hanover, George, the Electoral Prince of Hanover, afterwards George II. of England ; became Queen on his accession ; and died November 20, 1737. She was universally admired for her beauty and superior endowments, and was a munificent patroness of learning and genius. Full-length, life-size, to left, in blue ermine-lined gown and mantle, over white satin gold embroidered petticoat ; jewels in her hair ; in right hand she holds the orb which, with the crown, is placed on the table before her ; with her left she holds her mantle. Canvas 87 x 52 in. By J. Amijoni. Lent by The Duke of Fife, K.T. 12, Simon, ist Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor (1660-1727). ia^ Son of Sir Philip Harcourt and Anne, daughter of Sir William Waller, the Parliamen- /V^MmAaai tarian General, studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1683. He was elected M.P. for Abingdon in 1690, named Solicitor-General and knighted in 1702, and being advanced to the Attorney-Generalship in 1707, framed the bill for the Union with Scotland. In 17 10 he was appointed Lord Keeper, and in the following year raised to the peerage as Baron Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt. Early in 17 13 he became Lord Chancellor, but being suspected of favouring the House of Stuart, he was deprived of office at the accession of George I. He afterwards rose to favour with the King, and in 172 1 was created Viscount Harcourt. He was the intimate friend of Bolingbroke, Gay, Prior, and Pope, and it was in a house belonging to him at Stanton Harcourt that the latter translated the Iliad. Died July 25, 1727. Three-quarter length, life-size, standing to left, in Chancellor's robes and wig ; on left purse of the Great Seal. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by E. W. HARCOURT, ESQ. 13. James, ist Earl Stanhope (1671-1721). General and statesman. Son of Alexander Stanhope, brother of the 2nd Earl of Chesterfield ; born at Paris, entered the military service in 1694, served in the Spanish Peninsula from 1702-1704, and as brigadier-general shared the glory of Lord Peterborough's brilliant campaign of 1705. He was sent as envoy-extraordinary to Spain in 1706, and as commander of the British forces in that country from 1708-1711, took Minorca, and gained the battle of Almenara, in which engagement he slew with his own hand, Amezaga, the general of the Spanish cavalry; but in December 17 10, he was taken prisoner at Brihuega, and remained in captivity until the peace of Utrecht. During the reign of George I. he filled in succession the offices of Secretary of State and First Lord of the Treasury, and being raised to the peerage in 1717 as Viscount Stanhope, was pro- moted to the earldom in the following year. Died February 5, 172 1. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to right ; red coat, black wig ; in right hand pen ; his left rests on table, and holds paper. Canvas 50 X 40 in- By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Earl Stanhope. 6 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gttelph. 14. Richard Boyle, 3RD Earl of Burlington and 4TH Earl of Cork (1695-1753). Celebrated for his architectural tastes. Was the only son of Charles, 3rd Earl of Cork, succeeded to the titles and estates of his father in 1704, appointed Lord High Treasurer of Ireland in 1715, and installed a Knight of the Garter in June 1730. Died in 1753. In his early days Lord Burlington became an enthusiastic admirer of the architectural genius of Palladio, and in 1716 began to reconstruct Burhngton House, Piccadilly, built by his grandfather, the ist Earl of Burhngton. The building figures in a print by Hogarth, intended to satirize the Earl and his friends, entitled Taste of the Town, and in another one entitled The Man of Taste, in which Pope is represented as washing Burhngton House and bespattering the Duke of Chandos ; Lord Burlington appears as a mason mounting a ladder. He also rebuilt Chiswick House, which Lord Hervey described as " being too small to live in, and too large to hang to a watch." Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left, in wig, brown coat, ribbon and star of the Garter ; right hand holds volume of Inigo Jones, resting on console, which also sup- ports a bust of the architect. Canvas 50 X 40 in By G. Knapton. Lent by The Marquess of Hartington, M.P. 15. Princess Sophia Dorothea, Queen of Prussia (1684-1757). Only dau. of George I. married November 28, 1706, Frederick William of Branden- burg, who shortly after became King of Prussia, and by whom she was inhumanly treated, her children separated from her, and herself provided with an income which barely sufficed to supply the ordinary necessaries of subsistence. She was the mother of Frederick the Great. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right ; dark blue dress embroidered in silver, light blue stomacher and ermine-lined mantle ; her left hand rests on her crown, placed on cushion, her right holds up her mantle ; crimson curtain in background. Canvas 54 X 41 in. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 16. Edward Wortley Montagu (d. 1 761). Grandson of the ist Earl of Sandwich. Represented, at different periods, the cities of Westminster and Peterborough, and the boroughs of Huntingdon and Bossiney, in Par- liament ; distinguished himself by the introduction of several useful bills ; was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in 17 14, and in 17 16 went as ambassador to the Porte, but was recalled in 1717. Died 1761. He married Lady Mary, the eldest daughter of Evelyn, ist Duke of Kingston. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, plum-coloured coat and wig ; right hand extended ; left resting on pedestal ; landscape background. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Earl of Wharncliffe. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. T 17. Sir Robert Walpole, ist Earl of Orford, K.G. (1676-1745). One of the most eminent of our great Parliamentary leaders. Born at Houghton, in Norfolk ; was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1708 he was appointed Secretary-at-War, and Prime Minister in 17 15 ; but it was not till 1722, after the deaths of Stanhope and Sunderland, that he attained the highest power in the administration, and he continued in office with great success and great renown as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer till 1742. Upon his retirement he was created Earl of Orford. In 1725 he had received the Order of the Bath, and in 1726 the Order of the Garter, being one of the very few commoners in modern times who have ever been invested with the latter. Died March 18, 1745. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, in robes of Chancellor of the Exchequer and wig, and ribbon of the Garter ; his right hand rests on the purse of the Lord High Treasurer ; in left, paper. Canvas 49 x 39 in. By J. B. Van Loo. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. 18. Frederick, Prince of Wales, his brother the Duke of Cumberland, and their sisters. Son of George II. and Caroline of Brandenburg Anspach ; born at Hanover, January 20, 1707, created Duke of Gloucester in 1717, K.G. in 1718, and Duke of Edinburgh in 1726. In the twenty-second year of his age he first came to this country, and shortly after his arrival was made Earl of Chester, Prince of Wales, and a Member of the Privy Council. He soon became exceedingly popular, but lost credit at Court in betraying a strong bias towards the Opposition, of which he eventually became the head. In 1736 he married Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, by whom he had four sons (the eldest being George III.) and two daughters. Died March 20, 175 1. Princess Anne, his eldest sister, married, in 1734, William, Prince of Orange, died in 1759 ; Princess Amelia, died unmarried in 1786 ; Princess Caroline, died unmarried in 1758 ; WiUiam, Duke of Cumberland, who commanded at Fontenoy and Culloden, born in 1721, died in 1765 ; Princess Mary, married Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, in 1740, died in 1771 ; and Princess Louise, the youngest, married Frederick V. of Denmark in 1743, and died in 175 1. The Prince of Wales stands in the centre, in red coat and ribbon of the Garter, and points to a celestial globe on which is a chart with representation of an eclipse of the sun ; on his left are grouped the Princesses Anne (seated), Amelia, and Elizabeth, and the Duke of Cumberland ; on his right are his two youngest sisters, the Princesses Mary and Louisa, one of whom plays with a dog ; architectural background. Canvas no x 147 in. Lent by The Marquess of Hartington, M.P. 19. George II. on Horseback (1683-1760). Son of George I. and Sophia Dorothea of Zelle : born at Hanover, October 30, 1683 ; married, 1705, Wilhelmina Carohna, dau. of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Anspach ; succeeded to the throne, June 11, 1727 ; died at Kensington, October 25, 1760. At his 8 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. accession he is described as being of a pleasing- and expressive countenance, with prominent eyes and a Roman nose. In person he was well-proportioned, but below the middle size. Small equestrian figure, to right. King in armour, holds baton in right hand, behind an attendant who carries his helmet, architectural and landscape background. Canvas 29 X 24 in. By J. HiGHMORE. Lent by The DuKE OF Richmond and Gordon, K.G. 20. Miss Anne Hogarth. "-j'^^ • Half-length, life-size, to right, head facing ; in cap, brown dress, and white bodice ; in la<^Ay' Hogarth painted pictures of his two sisters, Mary and Anne, about 1746. They were (h^) done in profile so as to face each other. That of Mary Hogarth is in the National ^ Gallery. Both pictures were sold at Mr5 Hogarth's death in 1790. By W. Hogarth. Lent by Miss Reid. 21. Charlotte, Countess of Warwick (d. 1731). Daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton, married first to Edward Rich, 4th Earl of Holland and 6th Earl of Warwick, and secondly, in 1716, to Joseph Addison, the essayist, poet, &c. This second marriage is generally said to have been ill-assorted. Johnson says that it resembled the marriages in which a sultan gives his daughter a man to be a slave, and there is a report that Addison used to escape from his uncomfortable splen- dour at Holland House to a coffee-house at Kensington. Half-length, life-size, to right, head facing ; in an oval ; red dress, showing white bodice, black mantle. Canvas 30 x 25 in. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. Addison, Esq. Ui) ^ 22. General James Wolfe (1726-1759). Son of Lieut .-Gen. Edward Wolfe. Born at Westerham in Kent; entered the army at an early age, and distinguished himself at Dettingen, in the campaign of Fontenoy, and at Falkirk, Culloden, and Mind^n. In 1758 he joined Boscawen and Amherst in the reduction of Louisburg, from whence he had just returned when he was appointed to command the expedition to Quebec. The enterprise was hazardous, but Wolfe sur- mounted all difficulties and encountered the enemy on the heights of Abraham, September 13, 1759. In the moment of victory he received a ball in the wrist and another in the body. In his last agonies he was roused by the cry, " They run," on which he eagerly asked, " Who runs ? " and on being told the French, he said, " I thank God, I die content," and expired. His body was brought to England and buried at Greenwich. Small full-length, standing in a landscape, facing, in military uniform ; right hand ex- tended, holding hat ; left on hilt of his sword. Canvas 29 X 24 in. ^ r iL J^^H ^^"^^ Clifford Chaplin, Esq. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 9 23. Richard, 3RD Earl of Burlington, afterwards 4Th Earl of Cork, and his three sisters, Elizabeth, Juliana, and Henrietta, when young. Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, see No. 14. His eldest sister, Elizabeth, married in 1719 Sir Henry Arundel Bedingfeld, Bart. His second, Juliana, married in 1719 Charles, Lord Bruce, son and heir of Thomas, Earl of Aylesbury, and died without issue in 1739. His youngest, Henrietta, married in 1726 Henry Boyle, of Castle Martyr, co. Cork, who was created Earl of Shannon. Four full-length, life-size figures. The Earl stands pointing with his right hand, head to right ; in blue dress, with red coat, white stockings, and classical sandals ; on his left a dog. His eldest sister, in blue and yellow, is seated with her hand on the shoulder of the second sister, who holds a dog. At their feet sits the youngest child, who holds a basket of flowers. Architectural background. Canvas 76 X 70 in. Lent by The Marquess of Hartington, M.P. 24. Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin {\6'j^-\']66). Only child of Sidney, ist Earl ; was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, sat in Parliament for various constituencies from 1701 to 1712, when he succeeded to the family titles and estates, and during that period held several minor offices. He was a Lord of the Bedchamber to George I. and II., Groom of the Stole, and in 1728 appointed Governor of the Scilly Islands. During the king's absences from England in 1723-1727 he acted as one of the justices of the United Kingdom. Dying without issue, most of his titles became extinct. Half length, life-size, to right, head to left, in grey coat and wig ; right arm rests on pedestal. Canvas 35 x 27 in. (Kitcat Club.) By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. R. Baker, Esq. 25. John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, K.G. (1688-1749). Third son of Ralph, i st Duke. Succeeded to the title in 1 709 ; officiated as High Constable of England at the Coronation of George I., and during that reign filled several offices of high honour. Was elected a K.G. in 17 18, and a K.B. in 1725, and at the Coronation of George II. carried the sceptre with the cross. In 1733 he was made Governor of the Isle of Wight, Master-General of the Ordnance in 1740, and was one of the Lord Justices for the administration of the Government during the absences of the King in 1745 and 1748. Married, 1705, Mary, daughter of the Great Duke of Marlborough. Half length, hfe-size, to right, head to left, red coat and wig ; right hand holding stick. Canvas 35 x 27 in. (Kitcat Club.) By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. R. Baker, Esq. lO Exhibition of the Royal House of Gtielph. 26. Philip Yorke, ist Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (1690-1764). Born at Dover, entered at the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar in 1715. Elected M.P. for Lewes, and afterwards for Seaford, he was appointed SoHcitor- General in 1720, Attorney-General in 1724, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1733, and in the same year created Baron Hardwicke. In 1737 he became Lord Chancellor, and presided as Lord High Steward at the trials of Lords Kilmarnock, Balmerino, &:c., in 1746-7. Created Earl of Hardwicke in 1754. He resigned office with the Duke of Newcastle in 1756, and died March 6, 1764. He stood very high in reputation as an equity judge, and so great confidence was placed in his uprightness and his professional abihty that of all his decisions as Chancellor not one was set aside. Walpole describes him as being a most comely personage with a fine voice." Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to right, in Chancellor's robes ; on right table, on which purse of the Great Seal. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By T. Hudson. Lent by The Earl of Chichester. 27. Queen Caroline, with her son William, Duke of Cumberland. Caroline, daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg- Anspach, born 1682, married at Hanover, George, the Electoral Prince of Hanover, afterwards George II. of England ; became Queen on his accession, and died November 20, 1737. Her son, William, Duke of Cumberland, born in 1721, was wounded at Dettingen in 1743, and commanded at Fontenoy in 1745 ; but his fame principally rests on the active measures which he adopted for the suppression of the Scottish Rebellion, and his decisive victory at Culloden in 1746. Died suddenly in London in 1765. Three-quarter length figures, life-size ; the Queen to the right, in gold brocaded dress and ermine train ; her left hand rests on the shoulder of her son, who wears the ribbon of the Garter, on which his right hand rests ; to left, head of dog. Canvas 49 X 40 in. By T. Hudson. Lent by The Marquess of Hartington, M.P. 28. Princess Amelia in Hunting Costume (1711-1786). Second daughter of George 11. Although highly accomplished she passed her hfe in celibacy, but apparently not without attachments. The Dukes of Grafton and Newcastle it was said, paid her great attention, and according to Walpole, the wooings of the former were so far from being disagreeable that the Princess and the Duke hunted two or three times a week together, and on one occasion stayed out unusually late, lost their attendants, and went together to a private house in Windsor Forest, to the great indignation of the Queen. She was Ranger of Richmond Park, and her manners and dress were exceedingly masculine, even to taking immense quantities of snuff. It was her custom to pass much WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. time in her stables, and she usually wore a round hat and a riding habit in the German fashion. She died October 31, 1786. Bust to left, life-size, in hunting costume. Canvas 20 X 16 in. Signed D. Burlington. The painter wrote under the portrait " Let others seek the Royal maid to prize, See what Emilia is in Saville's eyes." By Dorothy, Countess of Burlington. Lent by The MARQUESS OF Hartington, M.P. 29. George II. (1727-1760). Life-size, equestrian portrait, to left, in scarlet mihtary uniform ; ribbon and Star ot the Garter ; cocked hat ; baton in right hand ; in the background view of the Battle ofDettingen. Canvas 113 x 94 in. By J. Wootton and Pyne. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (St. James's Palace). 30. Princess Anne (Princess Royal), Daughter of George II. (1709-1759). She married in 1734 William IV., Prince of Orange, and on his death became Regent of Holland. Died January 12, 1759. Small full-length figure, in white satin brocade dress, and figured black shawl ; stand- ing in a garden at a tea-table, on which is a dog, which she touches with both hands. Canvas 29 x 22 in. By T. Netscher. Lent by Alfred de Rothschild, Esq. 31. Princess Anne, Daughter of George II. (1709-1759). Half-length, life-size, to left, nearly full-face ; black dress, green and white striped sleeves, cloak over right shoulder ; set in an oval. Canvas 30 X 24 in. By A. Ramsay. Lent by G. P. Boyce, Esq. 32. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4Th Earl of Chesterfield, K.G. (1694-1773). One of the most shining characters of his time ; was educated at Cambridge, made the tour of Europe, and appointed in 171 5 Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. He entered Parliament for St. German's before the legal age, succeeded to the Earldom in 1722, appointed Ambassador to Holland in 1728, created a K.G., and made Lord Steward in 1730, but having opposed Walpole was compelled to resign his office. In 1745 he went to Ireland as Lord-Lieutenant, and by his exertions Exhibition of the Royal House of Gtielph. preserved tranquillity there, though a civil war was raging in England and Scotland. He returned in the following year to fill the office of Secretary of State which he resigned in 1748, and retiring into private life devoted himself to literary leisure. He wrote some letters in the Wo7'ld, took an active part in the reformation of the Calendar, but he is principally known for the letters addressed to his illegitimate son, Phihp Stanhope. Lord Hervey {Mem. i., p. 96) describes his personal appearance as "very short, disproportion ed, thick and clumsy made, had a broad rough-featured ugly face with black teeth, and a headlong enough for a 'Polyphemus.'" Half-length, life-size to left, head facing ; red coat, ribbon and star of the Garter, and wig. Canvas 26 X 20 in. By T. Hudson. Lent by The Duke of Fife, K.T. 33. Sir Robert Walpole, K.B., a.d. 1725, afterwards ist Earl of Orford, K.G. (1676-1745). Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, wearing dark blue coat, wig, and the ribbon and star of the order of the Bath ; right hand holding paper rests on table, his left on his hip : purse of the Great Seal on table. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By Charles Jervas. Lent by Henry Spencer Walpole, Esq. 34. George, Lord Anson (1697-1762). Admiral. Son of William Anson, of Colwich, Staffordshire ; entered the navy and was made post-captain in 1724, In 1739 he was appointed commander of the expedition against the Spanish Settlements in the Pacific Ocean, and, departing in the following year, in the course of his voyage circumnavigated the globe, took several prizes, including the Acapulco galleon laden with silver bullion, from which coins bearing the name of Lima were afterwards struck, and arrived again in England in 1744, having in a fog sailed through the midst of the French fleet then cruising in the Channel. In 1747, for his capture of six French men of war and for his previous services, Anson was created a peer, and in 175 1 was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Died at Moor Park, Hertfordshire, June 6, 1762. Three-quarter length, life-size, facing, in naval dress ; right hand extended holds baton, m left his hat ; sea and ship in background. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By G. Romney. Lent by The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K.G. 35. Frederick, Prince of Wales, as a child (1707-1751) eft ; red frock, ribbor Lent by The Rev. J. E. Waldy. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, head to left ; red frock, ribbon and star ol the Garter. Canvas 30 X 24 in. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 13 36. Princess Augusta, wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales, AND HER CHILDREN, PRINCESS AUGUSTA, PrINCE GeORGE, Prince Edward, and others. Princess Augusta was the youngest daughter of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Gotha. She was born in 1719, married Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, in 1736, and died at Carlton House, February 8, 1772. Her sons, Prince George (1738 — 1820), afterwards succeeded as George III., and Prince Edward (1739 — 1767) was "created Duke of York and Albany. Her daughter, Princess Augusta (1737 — 1813), married Charles, Duke of Brunswick. Life-size group ; the Princess Augusta, in crimson-gold brocade dress, is seated in the centre ; rests her right arm on a table, and with left holds her daughter, who stands at her side. On the Princess's right, seated on a table, is Prince George. The Lady Anne Hamilton holds Prince Edward in her arms, and near her is Mrs. Herbert. To the left of the Princess stands Lord Boston. Canvas 86 X 77 in. 37. Charlotte Sophia, Baroness Kielmansegg, Countess of Platen and Darlington (d. 1730}. Wife of Baron Kielmansegg, Master of the Horse to George I. when Elector ; was mistress of George I., who created her in 1721 Countess of Leinster in Ireland, and in 1722 Baroness of Brentford and Countess of Darlington, Died 1730. Half-length, life-size, to left, in puce dress. Canvas 31 X 26 in. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Count Kielmansegg. 38. Henry F'ox, ist Lord Holland (1705-1774). Statesman. Second son of Sir Stephen Fox ; entered Parliament for Hendon in 1735, was made Surveyor- General of the Board of Trade, in 1743 a Commissioner of the Treasury, in 1746 Secretary for War, and in 1757 Paymaster of the Forces, in which office his conduct brought him into great obloquy. His wife, Georgiana Caroline, eldest daughter of Charles, 2nd Duke of Richmond, was created Baroness Holland of Holland, co. Lincoln, in 1762, and the next year he was raised to the Peerage as Lord Holland of Foxley, Wilts. Bust, to right, nearly full face ; gold edged brown coat and wig. Canvas 23^ X 19 in. Nichols (works of Hogarth) does not give any date to this picture. It was probably one of his latest works. It formerly belonged to Mr. Samuel Ireland. The etching by Joseph Haynes, was done from an unfinished sketch by Hogarth. The painter introduced a portrait of Lord Holland, then Mr. Fox, in Plate II. of The Harlot's Progress^ and again in Plate II. of The Times ^ where he appears on the platform in the act of removing the garden pots. By W. Hogarth. Lent by The Earl of Ilchester. By J. B. Van Loo. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 14 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 39. Emanuel Scrope, 2nd Viscount Howe (d. 1735). Succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 17 12 ; was appointed Governor of Barbadoes, where he died in 1735. Married Sophia, daughter of Baron Kielmansegg (see No. 37). Half-length figure, to left, in armour, and wig. Canvas 30 X 25 in. (See No. 37.) By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Count Kielmansegg. 40. House of Commons : Speaker Onslow in the chair (1730). View of interior of the House. According to a paper at back, signed A.O., the figures are : — (i) The Speaker, Arthur Onslow; (2) Sir Robert Walpole (blue ribbon); (3) Sidney Godolphin (in red) ; (4) Col. R. Onslow, M.P. (in front row) ; (5) Sir J. Thornhill, M.P. (front row). By Sir J. Thornhill and W. Hogarth. Lent by The Earl of Onslow. 41. Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, K.G. (1693-1768). Son of Thomas, ist Lord Pelham and Grace, sister of John Duke of Newcastle. Inherited great wealth both from his father whom he succeeded in the title in 17 12, and from his uncle the Duke of Newcastle. Being a strong adherent of the House of Hanover he filled many important offices during the reign of George I. and George II. He was made a K.G. in 17 1 8, appointed Secretary of State in 1724, and on the death of his brother. Sir William Pelham in 1754, succeeded him as First Lord of the Treasury. He was created Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne November 13, 1756. His reputation as a statesman was not of the highest order, and the loss of Port Mahon and the death of Admiral Byng led to his resignation in 1757, but he resumed office in the following year and resigned to Lord Bute in 1762. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated nearly facing, in robes of the Garter, collar and badge ; his right hand extended ; left, gloved, rests on his hip. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By W. Hoare, R.A. Lent by The Earl of Chichester. 42. Lionel Sackville, ist Duke of Dorset K.G. (1688-1765). Son of Charles 6th Earl of Dorset ; succeeded as 7th Earl in 1706, was sent to Hanover to announce the death of Queen Anne to George L, elected a K.G. in 1714, and in 1720 created Duke of Dorset. He was one of the Lord Justices of England during the King's absence in 1727, and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from 1730- 1737, and again from 1 750-1 7 55. Full-length, Hfe-size, to left, in robes of the Garter ; in right hand plumed hat ; his left rests on his hip ; architectural background. Canvas 93 X 57 in. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Lord Sackville. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits, 15 43. Sir Richard Steele, Knt. (1671-1729). Half-length, life-size, head to left ; blue gown and cap. Canvas 30 x 24 in. (See No. 218.) This picture was formerly in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Stationers' Company. 44. "The Mall." View of St. James's Park, various groups, some strolling, others seated ; the two figures to the right of the centre of the picture acing and wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter, are supposed to be Frederick Prince of Wales and his brother the Duke of Cumberland ; in the distance Westminster Abbey. Canvas 54 X \o\ in. This picture was first exhibited in the British Gallery in 18 14. Nichols describes it as a very fine subject for a first-rate engraver. It is not mentioned either by Walpole or Ireland amongst the works of Hogarth. John Gait was of opinion that it was really painted by Geminiani an Italian artist. Another suggestion is that it is the work of Samuel Wale, R.A. By» W. IIo es^RTM (?) Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Windsor). 45. Anne Luttrell, Mrs. Horton, Duchess of Cumberland (d. 1803). Daughter of Simon Luttrell, afterwards Earl of Carhampton ; married, ist, Christopher Horton, Esq., of Colton Hall, Derbyshire, and 2ndly, Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, brother of King George III. Survived her husband, and died, 1803. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, in white and red dress, hair powdered ; left arm crossed in front. Canvas 50 x 40 in. This is a sketch made probably about 1777, in which year Gainsborough exhibited at the Royal Academy his finished picture of the Duchess and her husband. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Windsor). 46. Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741). Son of Robert, ist Earl ; eminent for his literary tastes. Was the friend of Pope, Swift, Prior, and others. Made valuable additions to the library formed by his father, and also brought together a large collection of pictures, medals, and miscellaneous curiosities. Half-length, life-size, to left, head facing, red coat and cap. By J. Richardson. Lent by The Earl of Kinnoull. 47. Right Hon. Henry Pelham, M.P. (1696-1754). Statesman. Was the brother of Thomas Holies Pelham, Duke of Newcastle ; served as a volunteer at Preston in 1715, and entering Parliament for Seaford, Sussex, in 1718, as a follower of Sir Robert Walpole, was made a Lord of the Treasury in 172 1, Secretary i6 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. for War in 1724, and Paymaster of the Forces in 1730. On the union of the parties in 1743 he was placed at the head of the administration, reserving for himself the offices of Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Died in office, March 6, 1754. The period of his ascendency in the Cabinet is generally known as the " Pelham Administration." Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to right, in robes of the Exchequer, and wig ; in left hand paper, right resting on chair. Canvas 50 X 40 in. Painted in 1752. By William Hoare, R.A. Lent by The Earl of Chichester. 48. Robert, Lord Clive, K.C.B. (1725-1774). Thefounderof the British Empire in India. BornatStychein Shropshire, entered the Civil Service of the East India Company in 1743, but in 1747 quitted it for the military service ; distinguished himself at Pondicherry and at the taking of Devicota in Tanjore. In 175 1 he took Arcot, and his subsequent defence of that place was as remarkable as his capture of it. After visiting England for his health he returned to India in 1755, and in 1757 recovered Calcutta from Suraj-ud-Daulah, and on June 23 of that year gained the victory of Plassey. It was under the title of "Baron Chve of Plassey" that in 1762 he was raised to the Irish peerage. In 1764 he was appointed Governor of Bengal, and after his return to England in 1772 was made a K.C.B. His health, both of body and mind, having been undermined by his exertions and by the bitter attacks in Parliament, he died by his own hand at his house in Berkeley Square, November 22, 1774. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, head turned to left ; in mihtary dress, ribbon of the Bath, and wig ; right hand pointing, left holding hilt of sword ; landscape background, with military camp in the distance. Canvas 44 x 37 in. By Sir N. Dance, R.A. Lent by The Rev. E. Walford. 49. George III. (1738-1820). Eldest son of Frederick Prince of Wales, succeeded 1760, married 1761, Charlotte, daughter of Charles, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was mentally deranged during the later years of his reign. Died 29th Jan. 1820. Three-quarter length, lite-size, to right, blue gold-embroidered coat, red mantle lined with ermine, ribbon of the Garter ; right hand on hip ; crown on cushion to right. Canvas 50 x 40 in. Painted in January, 1759, as this was the first and only sitting which the Prince of Wales gave to Reynolds before his accession. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by Her Majesty The Queen (St. James's Palace). WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 17 50. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). Bust facing ; head to right ; close-shaven ; blue coat, yellow waistcoat. Canvas 24 X 20 in. (See No. 149.) By A. HiCKEL. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Hampton Court). 51. George III. (1760-1820). Full-length, life-size, turned slightly to the right, blue coat with gold braid, buff waist- coat and breeches, and wig ; his right hand rests on the ribbon of the Garter ; in left his hat ; in background, portico of a palace and park. Canvas 95 X 61 in. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1781. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 52. Princess Charlotte, afterwards Queen of Wurtemberg (1766-1828). Princess Royal, eldest dau. of George III. ; married May 18, 1797, Frederick Charles William, then Duke (but subsequently King) of Wiirtemberg, by whom she had no issue. Three-quarter length, life-size ; seated to right ; blue dress and red sash, order of Wurtemberg ; her right elbow rests on the sofa on which she is seated. Canvas 35 X 27i in. The series of portraits by Sir William Beechey of the children of George III. exhibited by permission of Her Majesty the Queen, were executed by the painter during his residence at Court in the capacity of instructor to the Princesses, who, with the King and Queen, entertained for him the strongest regard to the end of his life. By Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 53. Princess Amelia, 6th daughter of George III. (b. 1783 ; d. unm. 1 8 10). Three-quarter length, life-size, seated facing, head to right, white dress and blue sash, the arms crossed on her lap ; before her on a table is a book ; the fingers of the left hand are inserted in a portfolio. Canvas 35 x 27^ in. (See No. 67.) By Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). C i8 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 54. George IV, as Prince of Wales (1762-1830). Eldest son of George III. ; married, 1795, Princess Caroline, second daughter of Charles, Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbiittel ; appointed Regent 181 1, succeeded to the throne 1820. Died 1830. Half-length, life-size, to right, head turned to left, green coat with gold trimmings, powdered hair. Ca^nvas (oval) 28 X 22 in. Probably painted in 1782, and exhibited in the Royal Academy that year. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Marquess of Lothian, K.T. 55. Princess Sophia, daughter of George III., (b. 1777; d. unm^ 1848). Three-quarter length, life-size ; seated to left ; white dress, blue sash, and ribbon in her hair, arms folded on her lap. Canvas 35 x 27I in. 56. John, Marquess of Granby (1721-1770). General. Eldest son of John, 3rd Duke of Rutland, entered the army, and in 1745 raised a regiment of foot at his own expense. He obtained high military reputation as Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces, serving under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick in the Seven Years' War in Germany. After the peace of 1763, he was named Master- General of the Ordnance, and in 1766 Commander-in-Chief. He represented Cambridge in Parliament, and was twice re-elected. Full-length, life-size, to left, in military dress, steel cuirass ; resting his left arm on the withers of his horse, on the other side of which stands a negro ; battle scene m the distance. Canvas 96 x 80 in. 57. Queen Charlotte (1744-1818). Second daughter of Charles Louis Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ; married George III. September 8, 1761, by whom she had fifteen children ; died November 17, 1818. By Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (St. James's Palace). Full-length, life-size, to right, head to left, white dress embroidered in gold, powdered WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 19 hair ; arms crossed, right hand holding fan ; dog at her feet ; architectural back- ground and landscape. Canvas 95 X 61 in. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1781. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 58. Princess Elizabeth (i 770-1 840). 3rd daughter of George III. ; married 7th April, 181 8, Frederick, Landgrave and Prince of Hesse-Homburg. Died loth June, 1840. In her childhood she was lively, intelligent, and remarkably beautiful. She was an accomplished artist, and many of her drawings were engraved. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left at a table with drawing-pencil in right hand ; her head rests on her left hand ; red dress with slashed sleeves ; flowers on table. Canvas 35 x 27 1 in. By Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 59. Margaret Georgiana, Countess Spencer (1737-1814). Daughter of the Right Hon. Stephen Poyntz, of Midgham, Berks ; married in 1775 John first Earl Spencer, by whom she had issue George John, second Earl, and two daughters, Georgiana, who became Duchess of Devonshire, and Henrietta, afterwards Countess of Bessborough, both remarkable for their beauty. Half-length, life-size, facing, left hand supporting head ; black dress, white cap with blue ribbon. Canvas (oval) 24 x 194 in. Lent by The DuKE of Devonshire, K.G. 60. Henry, i2TH Earl of Suffolk and sth Earl of Berkshire K.G. (1739-1779). Son of William, Lord Andover. Was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford ; succeeded as 12th Earl in 1757 ; appointed bearer of the second sword at the Coronation of George III., deputy Earl-Marshal of England, 1763-65, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1771, and elected a K.G. June 3, 1778. Died March 7, 1779, "an absolute cripple to gout." Three-quarter length, life-size ; seated facing in a library, head to right ; light -brown coat, grey vest, hair powdered en perruque ; ribbon and star of the Garter ; his right hand rests on papers, his left on his knee. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire. c 2 20 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 61. Edward, i2TH Earl of Derby (175 2-1 834). Son of John, Lord Stanley, and grandson of the nth Earl ; married June 23, 1774;. Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, only daughter of James VL, Duke of Hamilton. Succeeded his grandfather in the Earldom in 1776; held the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1783, and again in 1806. He married 2ndly, in 1797, Miss Elizabeth Farren, the actress. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, head facing ; blue coat, buff waistcoat and breeches, hair en perruque j right hand resting on parapet holds a glove ; in his left a hat. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Earl of Derby, K.G. 62. Lord George Sackville (17 16-1785). Soldier and statesman. Son of the ist Duke of Dorset, born June 26, 17 16, was present at Dettingen and Fontenoy, and served under the Duke of Cumberland in the Rebellion of '45. At the battle of Minden, August i, 1759, he commanded the alHed cavalry, and for his failure to execute the commander-in-chiefs order to charge the retiring French- infantry he was court-martialled and dismissed the service. Restored to favour by George HL, he entered the Cabinet of Lord North, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, retain- ing office during the American revolutionary war. Created a viscount February 11, 1782.. Died August 26, 1785. In his person, which was to nearly six feet, he was muscular, and capable of enduring much bodily as well as mental fatigue. His countenance indicated intellect, particularly his eye, the motion of which was quick and piercing (Wraxall^ Hist. Mem.). Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left ; blue gold-embroidered coat, white satin waistcoat and wig ; in his right hand he holds a paper ; his left rests on the arm of his chair. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. 63. William Wyndham, Lord Grenville (1759-1834). Statesman. Son ot George Grenville ; entered Parliament for Buckingham m 1782, and through his friendship with Pitt was appointed Paymaster-General in 1783, Speaker of the House of Commons and Home Secretary in 1789, and being removed to the House of Lords in 1790 by a patent of peerage, became there the echo of William Pitt. He resigned with Pitt on the Catholic Emancipation question in 1801, afterwards joined the Opposition, and was Prime Minister of" All the Talents," 1806-7. After this time he held no public appointments, but continued his efforts for Catholic Emancipation. Died without issue, 1834. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, in peer's robes and wig ; in left hand papers ; right rests on hip. Canvas 50 X by 40 in. By Gainsborough Dupont. Lent by The Earl Fortescue. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 21 64. Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin {id'jZ-i'j^Q). Half-length, life-size, to right ; brown coat and wig. Canvas 29 x 25 1 in. (see No. 24). Lent by The Duke of Leeds. 66. Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester (1776-1857). 4th dau. of George III ; married in 1816 her cousin William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, by whom she had no issue. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to right ; white dress ; the arms folded on her lap ; in left hand a drawing, and before her on a table the bust of a child which she has been copying. Canvas 35 x 27ijin. By Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 66. Princess Augusta Sophia, 2nd daughter of George III. (b. 8 Nov. 1768 ; d. limn. 1840). Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, seated, white dress and yellow girdle; she holds in her two hands a drawing-book ; on a table to right is a bust. Canvas 35 X 27^ in. By Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 67. Children of George III. The portraits are those of Princess Mary, born in 1776, afterwards Duchess of Gloucester; the Princess Sophia, born in 1777, died 1848; and the Princess Amelia, born in 1783, died in 1810 ; the last was the youngest and the favourite child of the King; her death, it has always been said, brought on the sad malady with which the monarch was afflicted shortly after her decease. Princess Mary, in yellow and white dress, holds aloft a tambourine in left hand, and with right draws a little carriage in which are seated her two sisters ; Princess Sophia, in pink dress and blue hat and sash, holds her younger sister's right hand, and has an umbrella in her left ; the baby wears white frock, blue sash, and white hat and cap and holds on to her sister with both hands ; dogs and flowers in foreground ; columns with wreaths of vine, in which are perched two macaws ; distant view of Windsor. Canvas 104 x 73 in. This is one of Copley's finest pictures in arrangement and colour. It was formerly at Windsor. Copley painted so slowly and tediously, and required such long sittings, that when he was at Windsor painting this picture the attendants, children, dogs, and parrots became equally wearied. The attendants complained to the Queen, the Queen complained to the King, and the King complained to West, who 22 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. had obtained the commission for Copley, and who succeeded in convincing the King that the painter must be allowed to go on his own way, and take his own time.'^ By J. S. Copley, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 68. Maria Walpole, Countess Vvaldegrave and Duchess of Gloucester (1737-1807). Second illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, K.B. Married first, James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave ; and secondly, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, by whom she was the mother of William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester and Princesses Sophia and CaroHne. Died August 22, 1807. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right ; white dress, red mantle; left arm rests on pedestal ; landscape background. Canvas 48 >< 40. in. By G. Romney. Lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, K.G. 69. Right Hon. George Grenville (17 12-1770). Statesman. Younger brother of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, sat in Parliament for Buckingham from 1741 till his death. Appointed in 1754 Treasurer of the Navy, in 1763 First Lord of the Admiralty, and in the same year Prime Minister. During his administration the contest with Wilkes began, and the American Stamp Act was introduced. In 1765 he resigned his office to the Marquess of Rockingham. His grandson was created, in 1822, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left, in robes of Chancellor of the Exchequer and wig ; in right hand, paper, his left rests on arm of chair. Inscribed Rt. Honble. GEORGE GRENVILLE, 1764. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By A. Ramsay. Lent by Christ Church, Oxford. 70. Charles Lennox, 3RD Duke of Richmond, K.G. (1735-1806). Half-length, life-size, to left, blue coat and wig. Canvas 29 x 24 in. (See No. 339.) By G. Romney. Lent by The Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 71. William Henry, ist Duke of Gloucester, K.G. (1743-1805). Third son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, born November 25, 1743, served in several continental expeditions, and by gradations attained the rank of senior Field-Marshal ; created Duke of Gloucester on his majority, and shortly after married Maria, Countess Dowager of Waldegrave, September 6, 1766, thereby incurring the displeasure of George III. (see No. 68). In consequence the Duke and Duchess resided in Italy till 1776, when a reconciliation took place. Died August 26, 1805. Half-length, life-size, facing, head to left, in military uniform, and star of the Garter. Canvas 30 X 24 in. Lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, K.G. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 23 72. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, K.G. (1773-1843). Sixth son of George IIL; born January 27, 1773, studied at Gottingen ; married when a minor Lady Augusta de Ameland, daughter of John (Murray) 4th Earl of Dunmore, whereby he incurred the King's displeasure, and the marriage being deemed a violation of the Royal Marriage Act, was declared null and void. Created Duke of Sussex in 1798. He is known as a friend of Science and Art ; was elected P.R.S. in 1838 ; died April 21, 1843, a-J^d buried at his special desire at Kensal Green. Half-length, life-size, to left, in black coat, and star of the Garter. Canvas 30 X 24 in. Lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, K.G. 73. Frederick, Duke of York (1763-1827). Second son of George HL, born August i6, 1763 ; entered the army in 1780, studied mihtary science at Berlin, created Duke of York in 1784; was Commander-in-Chief in Flanders in 1794, but was recalled and nominated Field-Marshal and Commander-in- Chief of the Army. He served again in Holland in 1799, this being his last command. He was popular as the " Soldiers' Friend." Full-length, life-size, to right, in Garter robes ; left hand on sword, right on his hip, plumed cap on table to left ; architectural background. Canvas 92 x 58 in. By T. Phillips, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty The Queen (St. James's Palace). 74. Queen Caroline, wife of George IV. (i 768-1 821). Second daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbiittel. Born at Brunswick ; married in 1795, her cousin George, Prince of Wales. The marriage was not pleasing to him, and a separation took place after the birth of Princess Charlotte in 1796. Having obtained leave to travel on the Continent she left England in 1814, and did not return till the accession of George IV., when she was proceeded against by Bill of Pains and Penalties in the House of Lords, which, on account of the splendid defence of Brougham, the ministry were obliged to abandon. She was prevented from occupying her position as Queen, was refused coronation, and died August 7, 1821. Buried at Bruns- wick. Three-quarter length, life-size ; seated, to right, in black dress, ermine cloak and jewelled diadem ; in right hand she holds a letter inscribed For His Majesty the King left rests on arm of chair ; on left crown on cushion. Canvas 55 X 43 in. Presented to the Corporation of London by Her Majesty Queen Caroline in 1820. By J. Lonsdale. Lent by The Corporation of the City of London. 75. Queen Charlotte (i 744-181 8). Half-length, life-size, facing, head to left, white dress, blue sleeves, ermine tippet, pearl necklace and ornaments. Pastel 23 X 17 in. By Miss Read. Lent by The Earl of Chichester. 24 76. George IV. as Prince of Wales (1762-1830). Full-length, life-size to left, in armour ; he is surrounded by Fortitude, who presents him with a spear ; by Valour, who puts on his helmet ; and by Prudence, who kneels at his feet ; on right, horse ; on left, the British lion. Canvas 94 X 69. By Richard Cosway, R.A. Lent by The Hon. and Rev. E. V. Bligh. 77. William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester, K.G. (1776-1834). Son of WilHam Henry, ist Duke of Gloucester, born at Rome, January 15, 1776, served, under the Duke of York in Holland, and was made a Field- Marshal in the army, married July 22, 1 8 16, his first cousin Princess Mary, daughter of George II L, and died without issue. November 30, 1834. Half-length, life-size, to right, in military uniform, and ribbon and star of the Garter, and badge and star of the Guelphs ; hat in right hand. Canvas 36 X 28 in. Lent by H.R.H., The DuKE of Cambridge., K.G. 78. Victoria Mary Louisa, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861). Youngest child of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, born at Coburg 17 Aug. 1786; married first in 1803 Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen, who left her a widow in 18 14: she then married in May, 1818, Edward Duke of Kent, and became mother of Her Majesty the Queen ; was left a widow Jan. 1820, and devoted herself to the education of her daughter, with whom she continued to live from her accession to her marriage. Died at Frogmore 16 Jan. 1861. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to right, her hands on her lap, black dress ; coronet on her head. Canvas 35 X 27 in. By G. Dawe, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Windsor). 79. George IV. as Prince of Wales (1762-1832). Half-length, life-size, head to left, in military uniform, with badge of the Garter ; hair powdered en perriique. Canvas 30 X 24 in. By J. Hoppner, R.A. Lent by H.R.H. THE Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lome). SO. Edward, Duke of Kent, K.G. (i 767-1 820). Fourth son of George III. and father of Her Majesty the Queen ; born November 2, 1767, educated at Gottingen and Hanover ; served with distinction in the army, in Canada, and the West Indies, and attained the rank of Field-Marshal ; was Governor of Gibraltar in WEST GALLERY.] Portraits, 25 1802 ; married Victoria Mary Louisa, widow of the Prince of Leiningen, May 20, 1818, who gave birth to Her Majesty the Oueen, May 24, 1819. Died at Sidmouth, January 23, 1820. Half-length, life-size, to left, in military uniform, ribbon and star of the Garter and other orders ; left hand on hip. Canvas 35 X 30 in. Lent by H.R.H. The DuKE OF Cambridge, K.G. 81. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hanover, K.G. (1771-1851). Fifth son of George III., born June 5, 1771, created Duke of Cumberland in 1799, married Princess Frederica, 3rd daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1815, and succeeded to the Crown of Hanover on the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in 1837 ; died November 18, 1851. Half-length, life-size, to left, in Hussar uniform, and ribbon of the Garter, busby in left hand. Canvas 36 x 28 in. Lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, K.G. 82. Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817). Only child of George IV. and Queen Caroline, married 1816 Prince Leopold of Coburg, afterwards King of the Belgians. Died in childbirth 18 17. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to right, head turned to left ; blue dress trimmed with gold, white bodice and sleeves ; her right arm rests on portfolio ; her left hand holds drapery, which lies over the back of the couch ; curtain and landscape background. Canvas 55 X 43 in. By G. Dawe, R.A. Lent by H.R.H. The DuKE OF Cambridge, K.G. 83. William Pitt, ist Earl of Chatham (1708-1778). This great statesman and orator, known as " the Great Commoner," born November 1 5, 1708, was educated at Eton and Oxford, entered Parliament in 1735 for Old Sarum, and enlisted early in the ranks of the opposition against Walpole. In 1746 he was appointed Vice-Treasurer for Ireland, and soon after Paymaster of the Army ; Secretary of State in 1755, and Prime Ministerfrom 1757-1761, a period of glorious victories to British Arms. In 1766 Pitt returned to office having received the royal commission to form a Ministry. He chose for himself the office of Privy Seal, with a seat in the House of Lords as Viscount Pitt and Earl of Chatham. Ill health compelled his retirement in 1768, but he still took an active part in public affairs, strongly opposing the Government with all his powers of eloquence in its harsh policy towards the American colonies. It was on one of \ 26 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gitelph. these occasions, on April 7, 1778, whilst addressing the House, that he was seized with a fit, falling into the arms of those who were near him. Died May 11 following, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Half-length, life-size, to left, brown coat and wig. 23^ X 17! in. Purchased at the Stowe Sale. Lent by The Earl Fortescue. 84. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, K.G. (1774-1850), Youngest son of George III.; born February 24, 1774; educated at Gottingen ; served under the Duke of York in Flanders in 1793 ; created Duke of Cambridge in 1795 ; appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the King's German Legion in 1803, Field-Marshal in 1 81 3, and, on the restoration of Hanover, its Viceroy, 181 5-1 837; He married in 18 18 Princess Augusta of Hesse, by whom he had issue H.R.H. the present Duke of Cambridge, Augusta Caroline, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck. Died July 8, 1850. Half-length, life-size, to left, in black coat, and star of the Garter. Canvas 30 X 24 in. By Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, K.G. 85. Mrs. Maria Anna Fitzherbert (1756-1837). Youngest daughter of Walter Smythe of Bambridge, Hants; married 1st, Edward Weld of Lulworth Castle, who died the same year, 1775 ; 2ndly, Thomas Fitzherbert of Swinnerton, county Stafford, who died in 1781. Soon afterwards her beauty and fascinating manners attracted the particular attention of the Prince of Wales (George IV.), and she consented to a marriage with him according to the rite of the Roman Church. At the command of the Prince, Fox denied the marriage in the House of Commons. Mrs. Fitzherbert died at Brighton, March 27, 1837. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, brown bodice, grey lace shawl ; right hand raised to the face ; powdered hair. Canvas 29 X 24 in. Left by Mrs. Fitzherbert to the Hon. Mrs. Dawson Damer, and by her to the late Countess Fortescue. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Earl Fortescue. 86. Elizabeth, Lady Craven, Margravine of Anspach (d. 1828). Daughter of Augustus, 4th Earl Berkeley. Married first i8 May, 1767, William, 6th Baron Craven, and secondly, Christian Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg Anspach and Bayreuth. Died 1828. Full length, life-size, walking to left, white satin dress and cap with gold trimming ; architectural and landscape background. Canvas 94 X 57 in. WEST GALLERY.] Portraits. 27 The following lines were written by Horace Walpole, 1779, in praise of this lady and the artist : — " Full many an artist has on canvas fix'd All charms that Nature's pencil ever mix'd— The Witchery of Eyes, the Grace that tips The inexpressible douceur of Lips Running alone, in this fair image caught Each Charm's expression and each Feature's thought ; And shows how in their sweet assemblage sit Taste, Spirit, Softness, Sentiment, and Wit." 87. William IV. as Duke of Clarence (1765-1837). Third son of George III. Born August 21, 1765 ; entered the Royal Navy in 1778, attained the rank of Post-Captain in 1786, and was created Duke of Clarence and St. Andrews, and Earl of Munster in 1789. Having passed through the grades of Rear- Admiral and Admiral, his Royal Highness succeeded Sir Peter Parker as Admiral of the Fleet in 181 1, and was appointed Lord High Admiral of England in 1827. Succeeded to the throne June 26, 1830, died June 20, 1837. His Majesty married, July 1 1, 1818, Princess Adelaide, eldest daughter of George, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Three-quarter length, life-size, facing ; head to right, in blue coat, white waistcoat and grey trousers, and Star of the Garter ; left hand holds glove and stick ; hat in right ; sea and rock in the background. Canvas 50 X 40. By Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by The Lord De L'Isleand Dudley. 88. Queen Adelaide, Consort of William IV. (i 792-1 849). Eldest child of George, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Louisa, daughter of Christian Albert, Prince of Hohenlohe Langenburg ; born August 13, 1792 ; married the Duke of Clarence July 11, 1818 ; became Queen of England on the accession of the Duke of Clarence as William IV. in 1830 ; Queen Dowager in 1837. Died at Bentley Priory, near Stanmore, Middlesex, December 2, 1849. Half-length, life-size, to right, head facing ; brown dress, with deep lace collar and cap ; with both hands she holds vase of flowers. Canvas 30 X 24 in. By E. Parris. Lent by JOHN Cleland, Esq., of Stormont. 89. Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, daughter of William, ist Duke (i 773-1 844). Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left ; left elbow on table, white dress ; curtain behind. Canvas 30 X 24^ in. By J. Hoppner, R.A. , Lent by H. L. Bischoffsheim, Esq. By G. ROMNEY. Lent by The Fishmongers' Company. 28 Exhibition of the Royal Hotcse of Gnelph. 90. George IV. (1820-1827). Small, full-length, standing to left, in Coronation robes ; his right hand rests on table, his left on his hip. Canvas 34 X 26 in. 91. William Wilberforce (1759-1833). Philanthropist. Born at Hull ; was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and on coming of age was elected M.P. for his native place. In 1787 he began to distinguish himself by his exertions for the abolition of the slave trade, which, after a severe contest, was finally decreed in 1807. Wilberforce at first approved the principles of the French Revolution, and in 1792 was voted the right of French citizenship, but in 1801 he denounced the designs of Buonaparte, and supported the Government in its vigorous measures against France. Died in London, July 29, 1833. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated in red chair, facing, at a table on which are an open book and papers ; he wears black coat, and holds pen in right hand and scroll in left. Canvas, 48 X 38. This picture was painted for Lord Muncaster. By J. Rising. Lent by The Earl of Crawford. By Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by John Cleland, Esq., of Stormont. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits 29 NORTH GALLERY. STATESMEN AND COMMANDERS 92. Frederick Howard, sth Earl of Carlisle, K.G. (1748-1825), 'jJ^Ly AND George Augustus Selwyn (1719-1791). CiUkI Frederick Howard succeeded his father as 5th Earl in 1758 ; was created a K.T. in 1768; appointed Treasurer of the Royal Household in 1777, and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1780-1782. He subsequently held various offices : was elected a K.G, June 12, 1793. George Augustus Selwyn. Statesman and wit. Was educated at Oxford, represented Gloucester in Parliament, and afterwards Ludgershall ; obtained through the interest of his friends many lucrative posts under government, and though very dissipated amassed a large fortune. He was a man of so much wit that nearly all the current bans mots of his day were attributed to him. Three-quarter length figures, life-size, seated at a table ; the Earl is facing ; in brown coat, star and ribbon of the Thistle, his left hand resting on a book, holds a paper ; Selwyn turned to the right, in red coat and waistcoat, and wig, caresses a pug dog ; landscape and architectural background. Canvas 59 X 70 in. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Carlisle. 93. Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire (i 757-1 806) Daughter of John, ist Earl Spencer, married, in 1774, William, 5th Duke of Devonshire. Celebrated for her beauty and accomplishments, and for the prominent part she took in the party politics of her time. Half-length, life-size, to left, wearing large hat, hair powdered. Canvas 30 x 22. This is an unfinished portrait. It was probably painted about the time that the Duchess was sitting to Reynolds for her portrait representing her with her daughter, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. so Exhibition of the Royal House of Gitelph. 94. John Coutts (1699-175 i). Merchant and banker. Born at Montrose, the eldest son of Patrick Coutts, a trades- man of Edinburgh ; began Hfe as a commission agent and dealer in grain, and acquiring capital, became a negotiator of bills, a business which bankers had not yet taken up. In 1742 he was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and held that office till 1744, having been once re-elected. He was a great encourager of the fine arts. Died at Nola, near Naples, in 1751. Half-length, life-size, to right ; blue coat and wig. Canvas 30 X 24 in. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Baroness Burdett- Coutts. 95. Right Hon. Charles James Fox addressing the House during THE Ministry of Lord North (1770-1782). Scene in the old House of Commons. To right (to left of the Speaker) Fox, clad in blue coat, yellow vest and knee breeches is addressing the House, his right hand extended. Canvas 20 x 29 in. This picture in its colouring and grouping closely resembles that by Hickel in the National Portrait Gallery representinng Pitt addressing the House of Commons. It is therefore not improbable that this may be a companion picture, thus representing the two most celebrated personages of the time, each on his own side of the House of Commons. Lent by Maj.-Gen. Sir Claud Alexander, Bart. 96. Maria Walpole, Countess Waldegrave, Duchess of Glou- cester (1737-1807), AND HER DAUGHTER, PRINCESS SOPHIA (1773-1844). Second natural daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, K.B. ; married first in 1759, James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, and secondly in 1766, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 3rd son of Frederick, Prince of Wales. By her second marriage she had issue William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester, and Princesses Sophia Matilda and \*-«^ Caroline Augusta Maria. As the marriage took place before the passing of the Royal y \l Marriage Act, it was acknowledged by George III., but a reconciliation with his brother '7 did not take place till 1776. The Duchess was niece to Horace Walpole, who frequently ; i/ refers to her extreme beauty. He also mentions her being mobbed on a Sunday in the park when in company with Lady Coventry. She sat often to Reynolds, and there are at least four portraits of her by his hand. ^ , Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, of the Duchess, who holds by both hands the ^ child who stands on the arm of the chair, the head facing the spectator,^ holding her m.other's chin with her right hand. The Duchess wears a white dress and blue scarf ; the child is in white frock, and cap with blue ribbons ; architectural background. Canvas (arched top) 50 x 40 in. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1774. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Rev. B. Gibbons. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 31 97. John Lee (i733-i793). ^^-^ '^^'-^ < A popular lawyer, known as " Honest Jack Lee." Was Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers, one of the counsel engaged in the defence of Admiral Keppel in 1779, Solicitor-General in 1782, in the Rockingham Ministry, and Atforney-General, in 1782, in the CoaHtion Ministry. Died August 5, 1793, and was buried at Staindrop, Durham. Three-quarter length, hfe-size, seated to right in an arm-chair, in wig and gown, with long lace bands ; his right hand on the arm of the chair ; behind, a curtain, books, &c. Canvas 50 x 40 in. Painted in 1786, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in that year, where it hung in company with twelve other pictures by Sir Joshua, amongst which were the portraits of Erskine, Lee's colleague in the Keppel court-martial, the Duke of Orleans, the Duchess of Devonshire and her daughter Lady Spencer, John Hunter, &c. It was a year of triumph to the painter. (See No. 98.) By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Hon. F. B. Massey Mainwaring. 98. Augustus, Viscount Keppel (1725-1786). Admiral. Second son of William, Earl of Albemarle ; went with Anson round the world, and after a long course of distinguished service in various parts of the world, obtained in 1778 the rank of Admiral of the Blue. In the same year, as Commander of the Channel Fleet, he had a partial engagement with the French off Ushant, July 12, but nothing decisive being effected, the nation was dissatisfied. Charges and counter-charges were brought against each other by Keppel and Sir Hugh Palliser, his second in com- mand, when the former was acquitted and the latter censured. In 1782 Keppel was rewarded with a Peerage, and twice named First Lord of the Admiralty. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, in naval uniform, right hand resting on sword, left on hip ; sea in the background. Canvas 50 X 40 in. Painted in 1799. After his trial by court-martial at Portsmouth and acquittal, Keppel presented bank-notes for ^1000 to each of his counsel for their professional assist- ance. These were John Lee, the Solicitor-General, John Dunning, afterwards Lord Ashburton, and Thomas Erskine, afterwards Lord Chancellor, Lee and Dunning returned the money ; Erskine, who was the youngest of the three, having a wife and eight children depending upon him, was still too poor to follow their example. The Admiral's letters and his friends' replies have the same stamp of generous affection which seems to radiate from Keppel to all about him. Lee writes, " Will you make me a present of your picture, painted by Mr. Dance, who takes excellent likenesses, that I may keep it, and my family after me ? " Keppel did better. He sat to Sir Joshua for a three-quarter length portrait, and had four repetitions of it painted, one of which he gave to Lee, one to Dunning, and one to Burke. The other hangs at Quiddenham. The portrait which he presented to Erskine was not completed till four years after this. The four portraits were finished by November, and on receiving his copy Burke writes, " I assure you, my dear sir, that though I possess the portraits of friends highly honoured by me and very dear to me on all accounts, yours stands alone, and I intend that it shall so continue, to mark the impression I have received of this 32 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. most flattering mark of your friendship." This picture was preserved at Beaconsfield whilst Burke lived. His widow left it to Earl Fitzwilliam, and it still hangs at Milton. The above picture was the copy presented to Lee, who was himself painted by Reynolds in 1786, since which date the two portraits have always hung side by side, and have never been separated, and on that condition have been lent to the present Exhibition (see No. 97). By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Hon. F. B. Massey Mainwaring. 99. Anne, Countess of Chesterfield (d. 1798). Daughter of the Rev. Robert Thistlethwayte, D.D., of Norman Court and Southwick Park, Hants, married in 1777, Philip 5th Earl of Chesterfield. Died October 20, 1798. Full-length, life-size, seated to right, resting left arm on parapet, blue and white dress, gold embroidered scarf, powdered hair ; landscape background; Canvas 86 x 61 in. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Earl of Carnarvon. 100. Admiral Eward Boscawen (1711-1761). Younger son of the first Viscount Falmouth ; distinguished himself in the navy, especially at Porto Bello and Carthagena. Sailing for India in 1747 he conducted the siege of Pondicherry and recovered Madras : but the two great exploits of his life were the reduction of Louisburg in 1798, and the brilliant victory over the French fleet in Lagos Bay in 1759. Half-length, life-size, nearly facing, in naval uniform. Canvas 30 X 24 in. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by John Leveson Gower, Esq. 101. Thomas Penn (1702-1775). Second son of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and Hannah Callowhill, his second wife ; born at Stoke Poges ; was a joint proprietor of Pennsylvania, and as such was a feudal lord over 25,000,000 acres, nearly a quarter million of people, and the largest town in the American Colonies. He married, in 1 75 1, Lady Juliana, fourth daughter of the 1st Earl of Pomfret (see No. 121). Small full length, standing to right, in a room near a window ; drab coat and wig. Canvas 29 x 23 in. This picture and No. 121, of Lady Juliana Penn, were painted in 1750 as a memorial ot Thomas Penn's marriage. They descended to the Hon. Mrs. Stuart, and were presented by her in 1835 to Viscountess Northland, afterwards Countess of Ranfurly. The portrait of Thomas Penn has been engraved at least twice ; the upper part of the figure by C. Turner, probably to illustrate a publication of the Outinian Society, and the bust engraved in mezzotint. By P. Van Dyk. Lent by The Earl of Ranfurly. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 33 102. The Hon. John Leveson Gower (b. 1740 — ). Admiral. Son of John, ist Earl Gower and Lady Mary, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Thanet, appointed captain in the Navy in 1763 and admiral in 1787, was first captain of Lord Howe's ship at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782, and a Lord of the Admiralty 1783 — 1789. Married Frances, eldest daughter of Admiral Boscawen. Half-length, life-size, to right ; in naval uniform. Canvas 30 x 24 in. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by John Leveson Gower, Esq. 103. Henry Addington, ist Viscount Sidmouth, Speaker (1755- 1844). Eldest son of Anthony Addington, M.D. Was educated in the same school as William Pitt, at whose recommendation he entered Parliament for Devizes in 1782 ; appointed Speaker 1789-1801 ; Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Treasury in 1801, in succession to William Pitt, but resigning in 1804 was created Viscount Sidmouth. After Pitt's death. Lord Sidmouth formed a coalition ministry with Fox and Granville, which was broken up by the death of Fox. He was subsequently Home Secretary from 1812- 1822. Being unpopular with the King he hved in retirement and died at the White Lodge, Richmond Park, of which he was deputy ranger. Full-length, life-size, to left, in Speaker's robes ; his right hand rests on scroll partly opened, placed on table, on which are also a book, volume of the Journals," and the mace ; architectural background and view of Westminster Abbey. Canvas 93 X 64 in. This is one of the latest works by Copley, and was painted in 1814 after he had attained his 70th year. By J. S. Copley, R.A. Lent by G. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq. 104. Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford, Lord North, K.G. (1732-1792). Statesman: better known as Lord North. Eldest son of Francis, ist Earl, was elected Member of Parliament for Banbury in 1754, and having held several minor official posts, succeeded in 1767 Charles Townshend as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. He became Prime Minister in 1770. His administration continued throughout the American War, during which period he was incessantly assailed by the Opposition and threatened with impeachment. On his resignation of office in 1782, instead of instituting the long-threatened impeachment, a coalition was formed with the Whigs ; but this heterogeneous administration only lasted a few months. He succeeded to the Earldom in 1790, and -died two years afterwards. His correspondence with George II L was published in 1866. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left, in Chancellor's robes and ribbon of the Garter ; arms resting on chair. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By^N. Dance, R.A. Lent by The Bodleian Library, Oxford. d 34 Exhibition of the Royal Hottse of Gtielph. 105. Right Hon. William Pitt, M.P. as a boy (i759-i8o6).(^ This great statesman was the youngest son of William Pitt, the elder, Earl of Chatham. Born at Hayes in Kent, and being of delicate health, he was educated, first at home, and afterwards at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. On coming of age, Pitt was returned to Parliament for Appleby, and at once proved himself, not only an orator but also a states- man. At the age of twenty-three he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Shelburne's administration, but being displaced for a short period, he was in 1783 called upon to form an administration of his own, and he continued at the head of that adminis- tration for a period of seventeen years, viz. till 1801. Three years later he was recalled to power, but his health soon gave way amidst the toils and cares of his active life, and he died at Roehampton, January 23, 1806, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Full-length, life-size, reclining to right on a bank, his right arm resting on trunk of a tree, book in left, scarlet coat, white waistcoat and breeches, landscape background. Canvas 51 x 43 in. By G. RoMNEY. Lent by The Earl of Crawford. 106. Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P. (1729-1797). Statesman, orator, and writer. Born in Dublin, entered the Middle Temple in 1753, where he applied himself more to general literature than to law. He projected in 1758 the Anjiual Register, and for some years wrote the whole of it. He entered Parliament in 1765 as Member for Wendover, was elected for Bristol in 1774, and Malton in 1787. He took a leading part in the debates, and especially distinguished himself by his speeches on the great American question, on Catholic Emancipation, economical reform, the affairs of India, and the prosecution of Warren Hastings. His speeches on the opening and conclusion of Hastings' impeachment were among the grandest efforts of his oratory. His views on the French Revolution occasioned a painful rupture with his old friend Fox. Died at Beaconsfield, July 8, 1797. Half-length, life-size, head to left, brown coat, powdered hair ; in his hand he holds a paper. Canvas 30 x 25 in. Painted in 1792 and purchased in the same year by the Duke of Dorset, as appears by a label at the back. On the back is also written with a free brush, as if by the painter himself, " Opie Pinxit 1792. Ed. Burke, Esqre." By J. Opie, R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. 107. ALEXANDER, lOTH DUKE OF HAMILTON, K.G. (1767-1852). Son of Archibald, gth Duke, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, sat in Parlia- ment for Lancaster from 1802 to 1806, and in the latter year was sent as Ambassador to St. Petersburg, but recalled in 1807. He was summoned to the House of Lords in 1816 as Baron of Dutton, succeeded to the Dukedom in 1819, was elected a K.G. February 5, 1839, and was Lord Pligh Steward of England at the coronation of Queen NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 35 Victoria. Died, August i8, 1852. He married, April 26, 1810, Susan, daughter of William Beckford, of Fonthill Gifford. Half-length, life-size, to right, long hair, red coat, and white frill. Canvas 264 X 21 in. 108. John, 3RD Earl of Bute, K.G. (1713-1792). Son of James, 2nd Earl, and Lady Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of John, Duke of Argyll; succeeded his father in 1723, was made a K.T. in 1738, and Lord of the Bed- chamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1750, and Groom of the Stole to George, Prince of Wales, in 1756. He was First Lord of the Treasury t rom May 1762 to April 1763, when he retired in a storm of unpopularity. Elected K.G. in 1762. He possessed an ardent taste for literature, and specially excelled in the science of botany. Married Mary, dau. of Edward Wortley Montagu. Full-length, life-size, head to right, in robes of the Garter ; hair ^^o^^^xt^en perruque ; in right hand plumed hat ; his left holds up his cloak ; architectural background and landscape. Canvas 94 x 58 in. Painted in October, 1773. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Wharncliffe. 109. John, 4Th Earl of Bute and ist Marquess (1744-1814). Son of 3rd Earl (see No. io8) ; entered Parliament for Bossoney in 1766 ; created Baron Cardiff in 1776; was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to Turin in 1779, and to Madrid in 1785 : succeeded to the Earldom in 1794, and in February 1796 was created a Marquess. He again in 1795 went to Spain as ambassador, but returned the next year on the declaration of wan Married, first Charlotte Jane, dau. of Herbert, Viscount Windsor, and secondly Frances, dau. of Thomas Coutts. Half-length, life-size, to left, head to right, in peer's robes, powdered hair en perriique ; set in an oval; in background coat-of-arms and name. Canvas 30 x 21 in. Painted in 1776, as stated on the picture. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Wharncliffe. 110. Right Hon. George Canning, M.P., when young (1770-1827). The eminent statesman, orator, and political writer. Born in London, was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and entered at Lincoln's Inn, but soon abandoned law for politics. He sat in Parliament in 1793, and joining the ministerial party under Pitt, was appointed Under Secretary of State in 1796, Treasurer of the Navy in 1804, and Foreign Secretary in the Perceval administration in 1807. In 1814 he went as Ambassador to Portugal, where he remained till after the Battle of Waterloo, and in 1816 was made President of the Board of Control. He was appointed in 1822 to succeed the By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by the Duke of Hamilton, K.T. D 2 36 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. Marquess of Hastings as Governor-General of India, but on the eve of his departure, on account of the death of the Marquess of Londonderry, he was induced to accept the foreign seals, and in April, 1827, succeeded Lord Liverpool as Premier. His health, however, failed, and he died August 8 of the same year. Half-length, life-size, facing, head to left, in Vandyck black dress slashed with white. Canvas oval 28 X 23 in. This picture was painted just after Canning left Eton. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Marquess of Clanrikarde. 111. Anne Luttrell (Mrs. Horton), Duchess of Cumberland (d. 1803). Full-length, life-size, facing, head to right, rich crimson robe over white embroidered petticoat, crimson ermine-lined mantle, powdered hair ; her right elbow rests on pedestal of column, the finger of the hand touches her cheek ; left hand holds her mantle ; architectural background. Canvas 95 X 56 in. (See No. 45.) By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 112. Mrs. Sumner, nee Gambier. Bust, life-size, to right, in white dress, hair falling in curls on right shoulder. Canvas (oval) 20X 16 in. By Lady Barham. Lent by Miss Sumner. 113. John Frederick, 3RD Duke of Dorset, K.G. (1745-1799). Nephew of Charles, 2nd Duke ; represented Kent in Parliament, 1768-9, succeeded to the Dukedom, 1769, was Lord-Lieutenant, Vice- Admiral and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Kent, 1769-1797, Ambassador extraordinary to Paris, 1783-1784, elected a K.G., April, 1788, and was Lord Steward of the Household in 1789. Died, July 19, 1799. Wraxall {^Hist. Me?n., ii, 472) says of him : " His person, if not handsome, was highly agreeable, the expression of his countenance noble and interesting ; his manners soft, quiet, ingratiating, and formed for a court, destitute of all affectation but not deficient in dignity." He married Arabella Diana, daughter of Sir Charles Cope, Bart. Full-length, life-size, facing, head to right, in peer's robes ; his right-hand rests on table on which is placed a ducal coronet, sword, and ribbon of the Garter ; his left is placed on his hip ; books in the foreground ; architectural background. Canvas 93 X 57 in. Reynolds painted two portraits of the Duke of Dorset. The first, in April 1769, in which he is represented in a plain coat, white neckcloth, engraved by T. Hardy ; the other the above picture, in July 1780 ; it is engraved by S. W. Reynolds. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 114. Right Hon. Warren Hastings (1733-1818). First Governor-General of India. Born at Daylesford, Worcestershire, went to India as a writer in 1750, was appointed second in Council at Madras in 1769, and became President of the Supreme Council of Bengal in 1772, and Governor- General of all British India in 1774. From this time began his remarkable administration, during which he successfully contended against a combination of enemies, and not only strengthened but also considerably increased the powers of the East India Company. He continued in office till 1785, but shortly after his return to England was impeached by the House of Commons for various acts of his government. After a trial lasting nine years he was acquitted on all charges ; and he lived to see his plans for India publicly applauded. Half-length, life-size, facing in an oval ; blue coat with scarf. Canvas 30 x 24 in. By D. MoRiER. Lent by The Earl of Loudoun. 115. William Beckford (i 759-1 844). The author of Vathek. Son of Alderman Beckford, whose estates at Fonthill, Wilt- shire, and large fortune, estimated at ^^100,000 a year, he inherited at the age of eleven. In 1777 he set out for the Continent with his tutor, where he spent much of the following '. 1 ' years. In 1781 he wrote his celebrated romance of Vathek^ an Arabian tale, in French, ' at a single sitting of three days and two nights, without " taking off his clothes the whole time." This was published at Lausanne in 1787 ; but it had been forestalled by an Iv^IaW English translation in 1784 surreptitiously obtained. On taking up his residence in * England in 1796, he settled at Fonthill, and devoted his time and money to rebuilding the Abbey, on which in the space of sixteen years he spent about ;i^273,ooo, filling it with one of the finest libraries in England and with pictures and curiosities. In 1822 on account of pecuniary losses he was compelled to sell the Abbey and most of its rich and rare contents. He then took up his residence at Bath, where he died in 1844. Beckford was a man of great taste and knowledge. His collection of pictures embraced specimens of almost every painter of eminence of all ages and nations. His library was preserved intact till its sale in 1 882. Half-length, life-size, to left, black coat. Canvas 27 X 21 in. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782. Beckford sat for his portrait in February of that year. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Duke of Hamilton, K.T. 116. Charles Watson Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, K.G. (1730-1782). Statesman. Only son of the ist Marquess, whom he succeeded in 1750 ; was elected K.G. in 1760, and became ist Lord of the Treasury in succession to George Grenville in 1765. Though he held office on this occasion but one year, he was till his death the acknowledged 38 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. leader of the liberal branch of the aristocracy. On the fall of Lord North's administration in March, 1782, Rockingham again became Prime Minister, but died suddenly in the following July. Half-length, life-size, to left ; in robes of the Garter, and collar. Canvas (oval) 27 X 24 in. The Marquess of Rockingham sat to Reynolds in December 1766, and in June 1768. This portrait was probably painted on the first occasion. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by G. C. Wentworth- FiTzwiLLiAM, Esq. 117. The Right Hon. William Pitt, M.P. (1759-1806). Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, blue coat and wig, leaning against chair on which is thrown his Chancellor's robe ; in right hand paper ; before him table with inkstand. Canvas 50 x 40 in. Besides the above, which was painted in 1788, there are several other original portraits of Pitt by Gainsborough. Half-lengths are in the possession of Earl Stanhope at Chevening, and Earl Amherst at Montreal in Kent, and in the Fitzwilliam collection at Cambridge. Three-quarter lengths belong to the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Normanton (painted for Sir William Young, a great friend of Pitt) and the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Earl Bathurst. 118. Sir William Blackstone, LL.D. (1723-1780). Legal writer and judge, and author of the well known Co77ime7ttaries on the Laws of England. Born in Cheapside, the son of a silk-mercer, was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, where he instituted a course of lectures on the English constitution and laws, and in 1758 was named first Vinerian Professor. After gaining great distinction as a lecturer, he was, in 1770, made a Justice of the Common Pleas, whicli office he held till his death. Three-quarter length, life-size, standing facing, head to right, in Doctor's gown and wig, right hand rests on books on table, left on his hip. Above inscription. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By T. Kettle. Lent by The Bodleian Library, Oxford. 119. Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville (1740-1811). Statesman. Son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arnistoun. Was educated at the University of Edinburgh ; entered Parliament and was appointed Sohcitor-General in 1773, and Lord Advocate in 1775. He was a warm adherent of Pitt, made Treasurer of the Navy in 1783, Secretary for the Home Department in 1791, which he exchanged in succession for the War and Colonial Offices. On the retirement of Pitt in 1801, he was raised to the NORTH GALLERY.J Portraits. 39 Peerage as Viscount Melville, and when Pitt returned to power he became First Lord of the Admiralty, and continued so till he was impeached in 1805 of high crimes and mis- demeanours in his former office of Treasurer to the Navy. Acquitted, however, on all charges, he withdrew to Scotland, and never resumed ofifice. Full-length, life-size, head to right ; in Chancellor's robes and wig ; in right hand paper, left rests on his hip ; on left, table with papers, &c. Canvas 99 x 62 in. By G. RoMNEY. Lent by Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston. 120. William Pitt, ist Earl of Chatham (1708-1778). Half-length, life-size, to left, red coat and wig. Canvas 24 x 17 in. By W. HOARE. Lent by The ViSCOUNT Cobham. 121. Lady Juliana Penn (i 729-1 769). Fourth daughter of Thomas, 4th Earl of Pomfret ; married in August, 1751, Thomas Penn, one of the proprietors of Pennsylvania. Died March i, 1769. (See No. loi). Small full-length, in white dress, standing in a room. Canvas 29 X 23 in. By P. Van Dyk. Lent by The Earl of Ranfurly. 122. Right Hon. Charles James Fox, M.P. (1749-1806). Statesman. Younger son of the ist Lord Holland, was returned to Parliament for Midhurst at the age of nineteen, and held subordinate offices in Lord North's administra- tion, from whom, however, he soon separated, and joining the opposition, harassed the Ministry throughout the American war. In the Ministry of Lord Rockingham, in the spring of 1782, Fox became Foreign Secretary ; but resigning on the death of his chief, in the following July, formed, in 1783, his celebrated coalition with Lord North, resuming his former office of Foreign Secretary. The failure of the India Bill was fatal to the Ministry, and on Pitt assuming the reins of Government Fox remained out of office for over twenty-two years, consoling himself with the pursuits of scholarship and with delivering masterly speeches against his opponents. After the death of Pitt, in January, 1806, Fox again returned to office, but his health failing, he expired at Chiswick in the following September. Half-length, life-size, in an oval, facing, head to left, dark red coat and waistcoat. Canvas 30 x 24 in. Painted about 1764, when Fox left Eton. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Provost, Eton College. 123. Philip Stanhope, sth Earl of Chesterfield (1755-18 15). Cousin of the 4th Earl, from whom he received a number of letters which were recently published and edited by the late Earl of Carnarvon. Full-length, life-size, seated to left on a bank, scarlet coat, buff breeches, top boots and wig, right hand caresses a dog, in left, hat and stick, landscape background. Canvas 86 x 61 in. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Earl of Carnarvon. 40 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 124. John Jervis, ist Earl St. Vincent, K.B. (1734- 1823). Admiral. Son of Swynfen Jervis, Auditor of Greenwich Hospital; born at Meaford, Staffordshire ; entered the navy at ten, and being appointed Post-Captain in 1760 com- manded the Foudroyant in Keppel's memorable action off Ushant July 27, 1788. For his capture of the Pegase in 1782 he was made a K.B., was with Lord Howe at the relief of Gibraltar, took Guadaloupe, Martinique and St. Lucia in 1794 ; and on February 14, 1797, won his famous victory over the Spanish Fleet off Cape St. Vincent, for which he was created Earl St. Vincent, receiving also a pension of ^3,000 a year. He was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1 801- 1804, was in command of the Channel Fleet and expedition to Portugal in 1806, and General of Marines in 1814. He held successively the posts of Admiral of the Blue 1793, of the White 1799, and of the Red 1803. In person he was " of short stature, his look was replete with intelligence, and he had an eagle's eye : his manners too were those of a highly polished gentleman." Three-quarter length, life-size ; facing, head to left, in naval uniform, ribbon and star of the Bath ; upraised sword in right hand, left resting on a cannon. Canvas 55 X 46. Presented to the Corporation of London by Mr. Alderman John Boydell in 1793. By Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Lent by The Corporation of the City of London. 125. Admiral Edward Vernon (1684- 175 7). Born November 12, 1684, at Westminster ; the son of a Secretary of State to King William. He entered the navy to the great reluctance of his parents, and was present at the battle in Vigo Bay in 1702, and in the engagement off Malaga in 1704. After much service under various commanders, he was made Vice- Admiral of the Blue in 1739, and sent to the West Indies, having declared in the House of Commons, in an attack on the Government with regard to the mode of carrying on the war against Spain, that Porto Bello might be reduced with six sail of the line. What he boasted he actually effected, and Porto Bello was captured Novembei* 22 of that year. His success was hailed with enthusiasm in England, but his popularity suffered by his failure on Carthagena in 1741, and being recalled he was employed in guarding the English coasts during the Rebellion of 1745. Soon afterwards, having acted in opposition to the Ministry, he was superseded, and even struck off the list of admirals. Three-quarter length, life-size ; to right, in red coat and wig ; standing near a gun, his left hand rests on his sword, his right thrust into his coat : in background, naval engagement. Canvas, 49 X 41 in. This picture was painted by Gainsborough during his residence at Ipswich. Philip Thicknesse, who was in that city about 1758, paid a visit to Gainsborough. He thus describes his introduction to the painter. " I immediately procured his address, and visited Mr. Gainsborough. He received me in his painting-room, in which stood several portraits, truly drawn, perfectly like, but stiffly painted, and worse coloured. Among them was the late Admiral Vernon's, for it was not many years after he had taken Porto Bello, with six ships only ; but when I turned my NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits, 41 eyes to his little landscapes and drawings, I was charmed ; these were the works of fancy and gave him infinite delight." 126. Alexander Hood, ist Viscount Bridport, K.B. (1727-1814). Admiral. Second son of the Rev. Samuel Hood, and younger brother of Samuel, Viscount Hood (see No. 128) ; was appointed Post-Captain in 1756, was Rear-Admiral under Lord Howe at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782, represented Bridgewater in Parhament in 1784, and was made a K.B. in 1788. He bore a part in Lord Howe's celebrated victory, June I, 1794, and in the following year defeated a French squadron, capturing three sail of the line, and nobly distinguished himself on many other occasions during the war. He was successively Admiral of the Blue, 1794, of the White, 1795, and of the Red, 1805 ; was created Baron Bridport in Ireland, 1794, Baron Bridport of Cricket St, Thomas in Somerset, 1796, and advanced to a Viscountcy in 1801. Died at Bath May 3, 1814. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, head nearly facing, in naval uniform and Star of the Bath ; right hand extended and pointing towards a naval engagement ; left on hip. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By L. F. Abbott. Lent by The Viscount Hood. 127. Trial of the Governor of the Fleet. Interior of a room, various personages seated round a table, others standing ; the president of the court holds on the table an instrument of torture, and looks back at Bambridge, whilst a prisoner kneels in the foreground at the feet of a member of the court. Canvas 21 X 28 in. This picture was given by Hogarth to Horace Walpole. It was painted when the House of Commons appointed a committee to inquire into the cruelties exercised on prisoners in the Fleet, to extort money from them. " The scene," Walpole says " is the com- mittee, on the table are the mstruments of torture, a prisoner in rags half starved appears before them ; the poor man has a good countenance that adds to the interest. On the other hand is the inhuman gaoler. Villany, fear, and conscience are mixed in yellow and livid in the countenance, his lips are contracted by tremor, his face advances as eager to lie, his legs step back as thinking to make his escape ; one hand is thrust precipitately into his bosom, the fingers of the other are catching uncertainly at his button-holes. If this was a portrait it is the most striking that ever was drawn ; if it was not, it is still finer." This portrait is that of Bambridge the Warden of the Fleet ; and the sketch was taken in the beginning of the year 1729, when Bambridge and Huggins (his predecessor) were under examination. Both were declared " notoriously guilty of great breaches of trust, extortions, cruelties, and other high crimes and misdemeanours," and both were sent to Newgate. Bambridge was disquaUfied by Act of Parliament, and ended his life by suicide. By W. Hogarth. Lent by The Earl of Carlisle. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by B. B. Hunter Rodwell, Esq., Q.C. 42 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 128. Samuel, ist Viscount Hood, G.C.B (1724-1816). Admiral. Son of the Rev. Samuel Hood and brother of Viscount Bridport (see No. 126); born at Butley, Somerset; entered the navy at the age of sixteen, captured the Belliqueux in 1757, and the Bellona in 1759, and was made a post-captain. In 1778 he was created a baronet, distinguished himself as rear-admiral in the famous defeat of De Grasse by Rodney, April 12, 1782, and for these services was rewarded with an Irish peerage. He sat in Parliament for Westminster, 1784-8 and 1790; was a lord of the admiralty in 1788, commanded the Mediterranean Fleet and took Toulon and Corsica 1793-4, and was created Viscount Hood of Great Britain in 1796, in which year also he became Governor of Greenwich Hospital. He subsequently was Admiral of the White and of the Blue, and was made a G.C.B. in 181 5. Three quarter-length, life-size, head to right, in naval uniform, in right hand cocked hat, left on his hip ; behind is seen a ship. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By B. West, P.R.A. Lent by The Viscount Hood. 129. George Brydges, Lord Rodney (17 18-1792). Admiral. Son of Captain Rodney of the Royal Marines, became lieutenant in 1739, post-captain in 1742, and Commander of the Newfoundland Station in 1748. In 1759 he was made Rear- Admiral of the Blue, and in the same year destroyed the stores prepared at Havre de Grace for the invasion of England. For these and other services he was created a baronet in 1764, and went to Jamaica in 1771 as commander-in-chief. After a short retirement he was again called to active service, and being sent to relieve Gibraltar, defeated the French off Cape St. Vincent, Jan. 16, 1780. He subsequently served in the West Indies, and for his victory over Count de Grasse, April 12, 1782, off Dominica, by which he saved Jamaica, and ruined the naval power of France and Spain, he was raised to the peerage, and received a pension of ^2,000 a year. Full-length, life-size, to right, in naval uniform and wig, and ribbon of the Bath ; his right hand rests on the fluke of an anchor, his left is placed on his chest ; in the distance naval engagement. Canvas 92 x 58 in. Painted after his celebrated victory over Count de Grasse, probably in 1784. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by Her Majesty The Queen (St. James's Palace). 130. Elizabeth (Gunning), Duchess of Hamilton and of Argyll (1734-1790). Younger daughter of John Gunning of Castlecoote, county Roscommon, and sister of the Countess of Coventry (See No. 141), whom she equalled in beauty ; married James, 6th Duke -of Hamilton, February 14, 1752. Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, February 27, 1752, writes: "About a fortnight since, at an assembly at my Lord Chesterfield's, Duke Hamilton made violent love at one end of the room whilst he was playing at pharaoh at the other end ... I own I was so little a professor of love that I thought all the parade looked ill for the poor girl . . . However, two nights afterwards, being left alone with her while her mother and sister were at Bedford House, he found himself NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 43 so impatient that he sent for a parson. The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without hcense or ring ; the Duke swore he would send for the archbishop — at last they were married with a ring of the bed-curtain at half-an-hour after twelve at night at Mayfair Chapel." When the duchess was presented at court after her marriage, the noble mob clambered upon chairs to look at her. Her husband dying January i8, 1758, she married in March of the following year John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, afterwards 5th Duke of Argyll. She still preserved her great beauty, and it is said that Queen Charlotte was jealous of the King's admiration of her. Her husband succeeded to the dukedom in 1770, and in 1776 she was created Baroness Hamilton of Hambledon. Wraxell says that "even in advanced life and with very decayed health she was remarkably beautiful, and seemed composed of a finer clay than the rest of her sex." Died in London, May 20, 1790. Full-length, life-size, leaning on a sculptured pedestal, white dress, ermine mantle ; landscape background. Canvas 94 X 58 in. Painted in January, 1759, ^.nd exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1760. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Duke of Hamilton, K.T. 131. Jane, Duchess of Gordon (d. 1812), and George, Marquess OF HuNTLY (1770-1836). Jane, daughter of Sir WiUiam Maxwell, Bart., married October i8, 1767, Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon, died April 11, 1812. Her eldest son, George, Marquess of Huntly, born February 2, 1770, was a general officer. Colonel of the Scots Fusiliers. He was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Gordon of Huntly; created a G.C.B. in 1820; appointed Lord High Constable of Scotland at the coronation of George IV., succeeded to the Dukedom June 17, 1827, and was Governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1827. Died May 28, 1836, without issue. Three-quarter, hfe-size figures ; the Duchess is seated to left, her left elbow resting on a table, her hand supporting her head, white dress, and red scarf, her right hand holds a sketch; behind her stands her son leaning on the back of her chair, and looking down at the drawing which his mother is holding ; in right hand book. Canvas 50 X 40 in. Painted about 1777. By G. RoMNEY. Lent by SiR Herbert Maxwell, Bart, M.P. 132. Henry, ioth Earl of Pembroke (1734-1794). General. Son of Henry, 9th Earl, was appointed a cornet of the " King's Own" in 1752, and gradually rose to the rank of General which he attained in 1792. He was aide-de-camp to George IL and a Lord of the Bedchamber to George III. before and after his accession. Married Lady Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Charles, 2nd Duke of Marlborough. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, in military uniform ; right hand rests on hilt of his sword ; left holds cap ; battle-scene in the distance. Canvas 50 X 40- in. Painted probably in 1762. Lord Pembroke sat to Reynolds, with whom he was on special intimate terms, on frequent occasions from 1757 to 1783. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Pembroke. 44 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 133. Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805). The most glorious name in all our naval annals. Was the fourth son of the Rev. Edmund Nelson of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, entered the navy as midshipman in his twelfth year, under his uncle Captain Suckling of the Raisonnable. He attained the rank of post- captain in 1779. As it would be outside our hmits to enumerate all Nelson's services, it must suffice to say that in 1798 he won over the French fleet in Aboukir Bay the famous victory of the Nile, for which he was created a baron ; in 1801 he destroyed the Danish ships before Copenhagen, for which service he was advanced to a viscount ; and on the 2ist October, 1805, he encountered the French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar, in which engagement he received his death-wound by a musket ball from the Redoubtable. He was buried in St. Paul's, January 9, 1806. At the siege of Calvi in 1794 Nelson lost the sight of an eye, and at Teneriffe, in 1797, his left arm. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, in naval uniform ; both hands rest on his sword ; fort in the distance on which flies the British flag. Canvas 50 X 40 in. This picture was given by the Admiral to Captain W. Locker and was placed by him between the portraits of Captains (afterwards Admirals) Sir Charles Montagu and Sir Charles Pole. It was purchased by the present owner of Captain Locker's son. The Admiral writes respecting it, I hope when I come to town to see a fine trio in your room. If Rigaud has done the picture let me know when you next write, and I will send an order on my paymaster for it." On February 21, 178 1, he again writes, " As to my picture it will not be the least like what I am now, that is certain. Tell Mr. Rigaud to add beauty to it, it will be much needed." By J. F. Rigaud. Lent by The Earl Nelson. 134. HORATIO, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805). Full-length, Hfe-size, to left, in naval uniform, wearing ribbon and order of the Bath, &c. ; left hand rests on rock, no right arm ; naval engagement in the background. Canvas 92 x 58 in. By J. HOPPNER, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty The Queen (St. James's Palace). 135. Arabella Diana, Duchess of Dorset (d. 1825). Av- Daughter and co-heir of Sir Charles Cope, Bart. ; married ist January 4, 1790, John ^ Frederick, 3rd Duke of Dorset, by whom she had issue, George 4th Duke, and two daughters, and 2ndly, April 2, 1801, Charles, Earl Whitworth. Died at Knole, August, i, 1825. The expenses of her funeral were estimated at over ^2000. Full-length, life-size, to left, white dress, and head-dress with feathers ; left hand resting on her hip, walking in a landscape ; dog running at her feet. Canvas 93 X 57 in. By J. Hoppner, R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits, 45 136, Captain Bligh (1754-18 17). Navigator ; commonly known as " bread-fruit Bligh." Accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage in 1772-4, was present at the battle of Dogger Bank in 1781, and in 1787 v/as appointed to the command of the Bounty, and sent to convey bread-fruit plants from the South Seas to the West Indies. In a few days after leaving Otaheite his crew mutinied, and with eighteen of his men he was cast adrift in an open boat, in which with great skill he sailed a distance of 3618 miles, and eventually arrived safely in England. After various services Bligh was made Governor- General of New South Wales in 1805, but in less than two years his rigorous and arbitrary conduct led to his deprival of office. He returned to England, was made a rear-admiral in 181 1, and vice-admiral in 18 14. Three-quarter length, seated, life-size, to left, in uniform, right arm resting on parapet, on which is his hat ; landscape background. Canvas 50 X 40 in. The name of a Mr. Bligh occurs among Reynolds's sitters for July, 1787. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Hon. F. B. Massey Mainwaring. 137. Lady Elizabeth Spencer, Countess of Pembroke (d. 183 1). AND her son George (afterwards iith Earl). Daughter of Charles, 2nd Duke of Marlborough ; married in 1756 Henry, loth Earl of Pembroke (see No. 132), and by him had issue, one son, George, nth Earl, and one daughter, Charlotte, who died young. She died April 30, 1831. Three-quarter length figures, life-size ; the Countess is seated to left, in pink dress, white veil covering her head and tied under her chin ; her right arm is encircling her son, and with her left she holds his hand ; the child, facing^ leans against his mother's knee and holds a book in his right hand ; architectural background. Canvas 50 X 40 in. Painted in 1761. This portrait has been described as " one of the purest and sweetest that even Reynolds ever painted." The Countess was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time, and Walpole writing to Montagu, September 4, 1761, says of her, " Lady Pembroke alone at the head of the Countesses, was the picture of majestic modesty." By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Pembroke. 138. Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, Knt. (1716-1780). Son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hardy ; entered the navy as a volunteer in 1730, soon rose to distinction, and commanded in the war against Spain in 1741 and following years. In 1755 he was appointed governor of New York and was knighted ; was second in command under Sir Edward Hawke during the blockade of Brest, and in the decisive battle of Quiberon ; and continued in the same office till he was made Vice-Admiral in 46 Exhibition of ihe Royal Hottse of Guelph. 1762, In 1770 he was advanced to be Admiral of the Blue, and was appointed Governor of Greenwich Hospital in 1771. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left, in naval uniform ; right hand resting on sword ; ships in the distance. Canvas 48 x 40 in. 139. Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, Bart., G.C.B. (1762-18 14). Youngest son of Samuel Hood, Kingsland, Dorset, and nephew of Viscounts Hood (see No. 128) and Bridport (see No. 126). Entered the navy at fourteen, was present in Admiral Rodney's action of April 12, 1782, and served in the Mediterranean under Lord Hood in the Juno, and distinguished himself at Toulon and Corsica, .1793-4. He com- manded the Zealous at the Nile in 1798, reduced Tobago and Guiana in 1803, and in the engagement off Rochfort in 1806, in which he captured seven of the enemy's ships, he lost an arm. He was M.P. for Westminster in 1806, took part in the expedition against Copenhagen in 1807, created a baronet in 1809, and in the following year was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, created a K.C.B. in 1812, a G.C.B. in 1813, and died at Madras in 1814. Full-length, life-size, to left, in naval uniform ; ribbon and Order of the Bath ; left hand rests on the fluke of an anchor ; no right arm ; naval battle in the distance. Canvas 94 x 58 in. By J. HOPPNER, R.A. Lent by The ViSCOUNT HoOD. 140. Family of William, 3RD Duke of Devonshire. The children here portrayed are Lady Caroline Cavendish, god-child of George II., who was married to William, Lord Viscount Duncannon, and died in 1760; the eldest son WiUiam, who succeeded as 4th Duke (1720- 1764) ; Lord George Cavendish, who was comptroller of the Royal Household, died 1794 ; and Lord Frederick Cavendish, who was aide-de-camp to George III., and attained the rank of Field-Marshal, died 1803. Scene in the garden at Chiswick ; Lady Caroline is seated in a swing ; her eldest brother on her right leans against a tree, his left hand rests on a stick, his right is caressed by a dog ; on her left one brother swings her, and the third, the youngest, runs towards her with outstretched arms. Canvas 39i X 49I in. - By-W, Hogarth. Lent by The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. 141. Maria Gunning, Countess of Coventry (1733-1760). Elder dau. of John Gunning, of Castle Coote, and Bridget, dau. of the 6th Viscount Mayo. She and her sister Elizabeth (see No. 130) were pronounced "the handsomest women alive." It is said that one day when the sisters were going over Llampton Court, the housekeeper, wishing to show the company the rooms containing Kneller's pictures, or the Hampton By G. Romney. Lent by The Lords of the Admiralty (Greenwich Hospital). NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 47 Court beauties, cried, " This way, ladies, for the beauties," and that on this the sisters flew into a passion and said they were come to see the palace and not to be shown as a sight. In March 1752, Maria married George William, 6th Earl of Coventry, whom Walpole de- scribes as a pedant, but passionately attached to his beautiful young wife. So renowned were these sisters for their beauty and good fortune, that in Ireland the beggar women upon receiving alms exclaimed, " The luck of the Gunnings attend you." Walpole also tells us how the noble mob in the drawing-room clambered upon chairs and tables to look at the sisters ; how seven hundred people in and about a Yorkshire inn sat up all night to see the Duchess of Hamilton get into her post-chaise in the morning, while a Worcester shoemaker made money by showing the shoe he was making for the Countess of Coventry. After her marriage people seemed never tired of running after the Countess of Coventry, and one Sunday in June 1759, when in company with the Countess of Waldegrave, she was so mobbed that the King, who took a good deal of notice of her, ordered that in future she should have a guard. The next Sunday she appeared accompanied by two sergeants of the guard in front, and twelve soldiers following her to keep off the admiring crowd. In the course of the winter of 1759 she was attacked by consumption, but lingered through the summer and died October i, 1760. Full-length, life-size, facing ; gold brocade bodice and petticoat, over blue dress with white sleeves ; right arm resting on pedestal of statue of Cupid ; in left hand rose. Canvas 94 x 58 in. By Gavin Hamilton. Lent by The Duke of Hamilton, K.T. 142. CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD, 1ST LORD COLLINGWOOD (1748-1810). Admiral. Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; entered the navy at the age of 13; com- manded T/ie Prince, Admiral Bowyer's flag-ship in 1794, and the Excellent in the battle of St. Vincent in 1797. He was Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and second in command at the Nile, where he highly distinguished himself ; and held the same post at the battle of Trafalgar, the chief responsibility devolving upon him on the death of Nelson. He was now advanced to the Vice-Admiral of the Red, confirmed in the command of the Medi- terranean Fleet, and created a peer by the title of Baron Collingwood. Died off Minorca, March 7, 18 10, and interred in St. Paul's Cathedral. Three-quarter length, life-size, to right, in naval uniform, standing on a ship, telescope under right arm, left hand raised to his chin. Canvas 49 x 40 in. Painted in 1806. By H. Howard, R.A. Lent by C. Collingwood Denny, Esq. 143. Frances Wyndham, Countess Romney (d. 1795). jf Daughter of Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, married August 30, 1776, Charles, 3rd Lord and ist Earl Romney ; died January 14, 1795. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left ; white dress, and grey scarf over shoulders ; left hand extended, right holding scarf ; landscape background. Canvas 55 X 44 m. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R. A. Lent by The Earl of Carnarvon. 48 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 144. Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805). Small full-length, to the left, in naval uniform and ribbon of the Bath ; he is standing on the deck of his vessel ; over chair on right is his cloak, behind him a gun, and m the background is seen naval engagement in distance ; on a shield in the foreground is inscribed the name of the painter and the date 1799. His cocked hat is placed back on the forehead to avoid a wound on the right temple. Canvas 33 x 20 m. The naval engagement in the background commemorates the taking of Fort St. Juan in Central America in 1780. By L. GuzzARDi. Lent by The Earl Nelson. 145. Simon, ist Earl Harcourt (1707-1777). Grandson of the ist Viscount, succeeded to the title in 1727, was present at Dettingen, and served in the Rebellion of 1745. He was created Viscount Harcourt of Nuneham- Courtenay and Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt ; constituted Governor to George Prince of Wales, in 1751, and in 1761 was sent as Ambasssdor-Extraordinary to Mecklenburg-Strelitz to demand Princess Charlotte in marriage. He went as Ambassador to France in 1768, and in the following year was appointed Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. Died September 16, 1777. Walpole describes him as "civil and sheepish," and " though a little abashed, as never accustomed to speak in public, yet spoke with great grace and propriety." Half-length, life-size, to left, head turned to right, in red dress, powdered hair en perruquej left hand thrust into his waistcoat. Canvas 34J x 27^ in. This picture was painted by Reynolds in 1755, it being recorded in his diary that Lord Harcourt was sitting to him in April of that year. A note appears in Lord Harcourt's accounts, " Paid Mr. Reynolds, the painter, for picture of myself and the boy, £2(i 5J." By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by E. W. Harcourt, Esq. 146. George, ist Lord Lyttelton (i 702-1 773). Statesman, poet, and historian. Eldest son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, of Hagley, Worcestershire ; sat in several Parliaments for Okehampton, and became a keen opponent of Sir Robert Walpole. This course of politics secured for him the favour of the Prince of Wales, and Lyttelton became his Private Secretary. In 1744 he was made a Lord of the Treasury, in 1756 Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1757 was advanced to the peerage. His principal works are. Observations on the Conversiofi of St. Paul, Dialogues of the Dead, and A History of Henry II. Half-length, life-size, to right, in peer's robes and wig, holding scroll in right hand inscribed George Lord Lyttelton, Aetatis suce 64, anno. Dojn. 1773. Canvas 36 X 24 in. By B. West, R.A. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. NORTH GALLERY.] Porh^aits. 49 147. Sir Richard Arkwright, Knt. (1732-1792). One of the principal inventors of machinery for textile manufactures. Born at Preston, in Lancashire, began life as a barber at Bolton, removed to Warrington, where he pro- jected with Kay a machine for spinning cotton. In 1771 he erected works at Cromford, Derbyshire, and having patented various improvements in his machinery, ultimately established a great business, his fortune at his death in 1792 being valued at over half a million. In 1786 he was knighted by George III. Full-length, life-size, seated, facing ; brown coat, buff waistcoat, black breeches, and wig ; his left hand rests on table on which is the spinning machine which he invented ; his right on his leg. Canvas 95 x 59 in. By J. Wright, of Derby, A.R.A. Lent by F. C. Arkwright, Esq. 148. Madame Giovanna Bacelli (d. 1801). Celebrated dancer. Appeared in London at the Pantheon in 1779, and was most popular for some years. Walpole writes of her as dancing at Paris in 1788 with a blue bandeau on her head, having on it the motto of the Garter, she being then under the pro- tection of the Duke of Dorset. She died in Sackville Street, Piccadilly, May 7, 1801, generally respected for her benevolence. Half-length, life-size, to right, head turned to the spectator ; yellow-dress, blue- mantle ; head bound with vine-wreath ; in right hand she holds a mask raised to her face ; landscape background. Canvas 30 x 25 in. This portrait was painted in 1782 : Bacelli sat to Reynolds in June of that year. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. 149. Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (175 i-i 8x6). Statesman, wit, and dramatist. Born in Dublin ; the third son of Thomas Sheridan, the lexicographer ; was educated at Harrow, and entered at the Middle Temple. In 1775 he brought out The Rivals, which was followed by the Duenna, and School for Scandal. _ In 1780 he entered Parliament for Stafford, and when the Rockingham Ministry came into power he was made an Under-Secretary, and in the Coalition Ministry Secretary to the Treasury. He attained great celebrity as an orator, especially during the Warren- Hastings trial. On the death of Pitt, Sheridan for a short period held the post of Treasurer of the Navy. Died in Savile Row, July 7, 1816, his constitution undermined by intemperance, and deeply mvolved in debt. Half-length, life-size, seated to left ; brown coat and wig ; his left raised and grasping the end of his white cravat. Canvas 30 x 24 in. Painted in 1788-89, this picture was exhibited in the Royal Academy of 1789, in which year Sir Joshua sent twelve pictures, which stood unapproached among the portrait painters. Walpole, in his catalogue, sets the following note against the picture : " Praise cannot overstate the merits of this portrait. It is not canvas and colour, E Exhibition of the Royal Hoitse of Guelph. it is animated nature/' At the unaffected manner and character of the admired original, and on the picture of Lord Henry Fitzgerald, also hung this year, Walpole remarks, " This is Sir Joshua's second piece, and yields only to Mr. Sheridan's." By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by Horace N. Pym, Esq. 160. William Windham (1750-1810). Statesman. Entered Parliament for Norwich in 1783, took part in the impeachment of Warren Hastings, and in 1797 joined the Pitt administration as Secretary for War, but resigned in 1801, being opposed to the peace. On the death of Pitt Windham again became Secretary for War in the " administration of All the Talents," which only lasted one year. Died June 4, 1810, from the effects of a fall, while exerting himself to save the library of Mr. North during a fire in Conduit Street. His diary, kept at the suggestion of Dr. Johnson, appeared in 1866. Three-quarter length, life-size, standing to right in black coat and wig ; left arm raised and resting on some books in a cabinet, papers in left hand, on left table with ink-stand and papers. Canvas 50 X 40 in. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803. By Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by University College, Oxford. 151. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). Fifth son of Garrett, ist Earl of Mornington, and Anne, daughter of Arthur, ist Viscount Dungannon ; was educated at Eton and at Angiers in France ; received his first commission as Ensign in the 73rd Regiment of Foot, in 1787 ; was M.P. in the Irish Parliament for Trim ; appointed Colonel of the 33rd Regiment in 1796 ; went to India in 1797, and from this period he may be said to have fairly begun the splendid series of military exploits with which this great soldier astounded the world, and which added so much to the power and glory of the British Empire. The barest outline of them can only be given here. In September, 1803, he won the battle of Assaye ; returned to England in 1805; was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the Peninsular war, 1808-1814, when ensued the most brilliant victories ever recorded, which terminated with his occupation of Paris, May 4, 1814. His patents of Viscount, Earl, and Marquess were read on the same day in the House of Lords, June 28, 1814. He won the victory of Waterloo, June 18, 1815, was Commander-in-Chief in 1827, First Lord of the Treasury in 1828 and 1834, again Commander-in-Chief in 1842, and died at Walmer Castle, September 14,1852. Three-quarter length, life-size, nearly facing, his arms folded ; black coat ; orders Golden Fleece, &c. Canvas 43 x 34 in. By H. P. Briggs, R.A. Lent by T. Lyon Thurlow, Esq. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 51 152. Mrs. Powys, of Berwick, and her daughter Anne Catherine, afterwards Viscountess Feilding (1777). Mrs. Powys was the wife of Thomas Jelf-Powys, of Berwick House, co. Salop. Her daughter Anne Catherine married, April 26, 1 791, William, Viscount Feilding, son of Basil, 6th Earl of Denbigh, who died in his father's life-time, August 8, 1799. His widow survived him till January i, 1852. Full-length life-size figures ; Mrs. Powys, facing, has her left arm round her daughter, who stands to left on a slab ; her right hand is extended ; the child, looking at her mother, raises its right hand towards its face ; both dressed in white and pink ; land- scape background. Canvas 93 X 57. Mrs. Powys and her daughter sat to Reynolds in June, 1777. In the painter's price- book for 1779 we fi'^d the following entry — " Mrs. Povvis for self and daughter, ^^112 135-. 6^^." By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Denbigh. 153. Mary, Lady Holland (d. 1778). Daughter of John Fitzpatrick, Earl of Upper Ossory. Married April 20, 1766, Stephen, 2nd Lord Holland, by whom she had issue — Henry, 3rd Lord Holland, and three daughters. Died October 4, 1778. Her character is thus described by her brother, Lord Ossory : " Lady Holland was the most amiable person that ever lived. She possessed the most perfect sweetness of manners, joined to an excellent understanding ; the most elegant person ; but, alas ! too delicate a frame. Her temper was the sweetest I was ever acquainted with ; her heart the tenderest and most sincere. She was the best wife that ever lived, and in the most trying situation that can be conceived, nothing could exceed her tenderness of attention to her children.'' Half-lemgth, life-size, facing ; pink dress, long plaits'of hair hanging over her shoulders ; hands clasped, left arm resting on chair. Canvas 30 X 24 in. Mary, Lady Holland, sat to Reynolds in July, 1766, immediately after her marriage, and again in May, 1768, and February, 1769. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Ilchester. 154. Napoleon I. (1769-1821). Born at Ajaccio in Corsica, was a lieutenant in the army at the commencement of the revolution ; assumed the title of Chief Consul of the Republic in 1799 ; was made First Consul in 1802, and consecrated Emperor 2nd Dec. 1804. Died at St. Helena, 5 May, 1821. Half-length, life-size, to right ; in uniform. Canvas 30 X 24 in. By T. Phillips, R.A. Lent by Henry Irving, Esq. E 2 52 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 155. Lady Elizabeth Foster, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1824). Daughter of Frederick Augustus, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, married 1st John Thomas Foster, and 2ndly, October 19, 1809, William, 5th Duke of Devon- shire. After the decease of her husband in 181 1, the Duchess resided much in Italy, chiefly at Rome, where she took great interest in the excavations carried on in that city between 1815-1819. These excavations were remarkable for the uncovering of the column of Phocas in 18 16, an event commemorated by a series of medalets bearing the Duchess's bust. Half-length, life-size, to right, white dress, blue sash, powdered hair ; landscape back- ground. Canvas 29 x i\\ in. This portrait was painted by Reynolds in 1787, Lady Elizabeth Foster's name occurring amongst his sitters for April of that year. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in the following year, at the same time as his Infant Hercules^ which was painted for the Empress Catherine of Russia. Reynolds had no less than seventeen pictures at the Academy of that year — a remarkable sign of his unremitting vigour. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. 156. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, K.G., as Col. of THE 33RD Foot (i 769-1852). Half-length, life-size, to left, in uniform of the 33rd Foot. Canvas 30 X 25 in. By J. HOPPNER, R.A. Lent by The Duke of Wellington. 157. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, K.G. (1769-1852). Full-length, life-size, facing, in a corridor ; black coat, buff waistcoat, wearing orders of the Garter, Bath, and Golden Fleece ; glove in left hand. Canvas 83 x 49 in. This is the last portrait painted of the Duke. By H. Weigall. Lent by H. Weigall, Esq. 158. Thomas, 2ND Lord Lyttelton (1744-1779). Eldest son of ist Lord (see No. 146). Was a young man of genius, but the reverse of his father in moral conduct, his days being passed in splendid misery and in the painful, change of the most extravagant gaiety and the deepest despair. He filled the offices of Chief Justice in Eyre of his Majesty's forests north of the Tweed, and High Steward of Bewdley. Died under very mysterious circumstances, November 27, 1779. The writer in the Quarterly Review, December, 1851, endeavoured to prove that Lyttelton was Junius. Half-length, life-size, to right, in judge's robes and wig, holding paper in right hand Canvas 30 x 24 in. After Gainsborough. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits, 53 159. The Hon. Mrs. Peter Beckford as Hygieia." Daughter of Colonel Julius Hering, and wife of Peter Beckford, Speaker of the House of Assembly at Jamaica, and brother of Alderman William Beckford. Full-length, Hfe-size, to left, standing before a lighted tripod and holding patera with vase, yellow dress, white scarf, hair powdered and surmounted by diadem ; behind her an attendant pouring out a libation ; architectural background. Canvas 94 X 58 in. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Duke of Hamilton, K.T. 160. Miss Ridge. Daughter of John Ridge, Alderman, a member of the Irish bar. Goldsmith, in his poem Retaliation^ thus mentions him : — " To make out the dinner, full certain I am That Ridge is anchovy and Reynolds is lamb, That Hickey's a capon, and by the same rule. Magnanimous Goldsmith a gooseberry fool." Half-length, life-size, seated facing ; her left arm on table ; white dress, blue ribbon in dress and hair. Canvas 30 x 24 in. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by Alfred de Rothschild, Esq. 161. Field Marsfial Lebrecht Von Blucher (1742-1819). Distinguished Prussian General whose intrepidity gained him the appellation of "Marshal Forward." Born at Rostock in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1742, entered the Swedish service, and being made prisoner by the Prussians, transferred his services to the enemy and rose to the rank of Captain, but being discontented received his discharge from Frederick the Great, who dismissed him with the remark that " he might go to the devil if he pleased." Being re-called by Frederick William, he commanded at Leystadt in 1794, and also at Jena, which battle decided for a time the Prussian Monarchy. In the European coahtion against Napoleon in 181 3, Blucher distinguished himself at Liitzen and Leipsic, entered Paris with the allies in 1814, and commanded at Ligny in 181 5, and by a desperate effort completed the defeat of the French at Waterloo. Died in Silesia, September 12, 1819. Half-length, hfe-size, facing, head to left, in dark military uniform ; orders on breast. Canvas 29 X 23 in. Lent by The DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 162. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806). Half-length, life-size, to left, head nearly facing ; black dress, white front, grey wig. Canvas 29 X 23 in. The gash across the picture was made by George IV. By G. Romney. Lent by The DucHESS OF St. Albans. 54 Exhibition of the Royal HozLse of Guelph. 163. Edward, Lord Thurlow (1732-1806). Lord Chancellor. Son of the Rev. Thomas Thurlow, rector of Ashfield, Suffolk, where he was born ; was educated at Canterbury and Caius College, Cambridge, and being called to the bar in 1754 his success was rapid and extraordinary. Having entered Parliament for Tamworth in 1768, he was appointed Solicitor-General in 1770, Attorney- General in 1771, and in 1778 became Lord Chancellor, being at the same time raised to the peerage as Baron Thurlow. He resigned the seals in April 1783, but resumed them on the dissolution of the CoaHtion Ministry of Lord North and Mr. Fox, and held them till 1792. Died at Brighton September 13, 1806. Lord Thurlow was a man of stern manners, of inflexible integrity, but as a judge did not stand very high. His dark complexion, stern and rugged features, and his bushy eyebrows, made him, as Fox said, " look wiser than any man ever was." Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left, in brown coat and wig ; right hand rests on book placed on table ; left on his leg. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By T. Phillips, R.A. Lent by T. Lyon Thurlow, Esq. 164. Lord Robert Kerr (d. 1746). Second son of William, 3rd Marquess of Lothian, and younger brother of William, 4th Marquess. Received a commission in the nth Dragoons, Lord Mark Kerr's, in 1739; was afterwards captain of the grenadier company of Barrell's Foot, and fell at Culloden, April 16, 1746. Standing at the head of his company when the rebels broke into the regiment, he received the foremost man on his spontoon, and was instantly killed with many wounds, being then in the bloom of his youth and extremely handsome. Three-quarter length, hfe-size, to left, head facing, in uniform of Barrell's Foot ; right hand resting on plumed helmet ; left on his hip. Canvas 42 X 34 in. By A. Ramsay. Lent by The Marquess of Lothian, K.T. 165. The Hon. Augustus John Hervey (Captain R.N.) after- wards 3RD Earl of Bristol (i 723-1 799). Grandson of John, ist Earl ; entered the Navy in 1744, appointed Post-Captain in 1747, Colonel of the Marines in 1775, ^i^d Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean in 1763. He was a Lord of the Admiralty in 1775, and in the same year succeeded his brother, George Wilham, as 3rd Earl of Bristol. He was successively Rear-Admiral of the Blue, White, and Red. He married privately, in 1744, Miss Chudleigh, known afterwards as the Duchess of Kingston, from having contracted a bigamous marriage with the Duke of Kingston, for which she was tried and convicted. Full-length, life-size, to left, standing on sea-shore ; in naval uniform ; resting against the fluke of an anchor, telescope in left hand, right on hip. Canvas 94 x 58. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Marquess of Bristol. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 55 166. Francis Rawdon, ist Marquess of Hastings (1754-1826). Eldest son of the Earl of Moira, distinguished himself in the American war,where he rose to the rank of Brigadier-General. On his return to England he was created Lord Rawdon in 1783, was appointed aide-de-camp to the King, and in 1790 assumed the name of Hastings, succeeding as Earl of Moira in 1793. He served under the Duke of York in Holland in 1794, was Master-General of the Ordnance in 1806, Governor-General of India from 1812-1821, and Commander-in-Chief of Malta in 1824. He was created Viscount Loudoun, Earl of Rawdon and Marquess of Hastings in 1816. Half-length, life-size, facing head to right, in military uniform. Canvas 30 X 24 in. By Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Loudoun. 167. Eliza Anne Linley, Mrs. Sheridan, and her brother (1/54-1792).. Daughter of Thomas Linley, the musical composer. Born in 1754; sang with her sister, afterwards Mrs. Tickell, at the concerts established by her father at Bath ; married Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1772 privately near Calais, whither she had travelled with the intention of entering a convent, and again in England, when her father's consent had been obtained. After her marriage she never sang in public. Died in 1792. She was an accomplished singer and remarkable for her beauty. Walpole writes of her, March 16, 1773 : " 1 was not at the ball last night, and have only been to the opera, where I was infinitely struck with the Carrara, who is the prettiest creature upon earth. Mrs. Hartley I am to find still handsomer, and Miss Linley to be the superlative degree. The king admires the last, and ogles her as much as he dares to do in so holy a place as an oratorio, and at so devout a service as Alexander' s FeastP Half-length figures ; Miss Linley to left, head to right ; in blue dress and white scarf, which she holds in both hands raised to her bosom ; her brother in red jacket rests his head on her shoulder looking at the spectator, landscape background. Canvas 26i X 23 in. This picture was painted by Gainsborough during his residence at Bath and shortly before Miss Linley's marriage. Thicknesse tells the following anecdote : "After returning from a concert at Bath, where we had been charmed by Miss Linley's voice, I went home to supper with my friend (Gainsborough), who sent his servant for a bit of clay from the small beer barrel, with which he modelled and then coloured her head, and that too in a quarter of an hour, in such a manner that I protest it appeared to me even superior to his paintings. The next day I took a friend or two to his house to see it, but it was not to be seen, the servant had thrown it down from the mantel-piece and broken it. Mr. Leslie had in his possession an exquisite plaster cast of Miss Linley (from a clay model by Gainsborough) which shared the same fete. Gainsborough used now and then to model the faces of his friends in miniature, finding the material in the wax-candles before him." By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. 56 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gtielph. 168. Charles, 4TH Duke of Rutland, K.G. (1754-1787). Son of John, Marquess of Granby (see No. 56) ; was M.P. for the University of Cam- bridge ; succeeded to the dukedom on the death of his grandfather John, 3rd Duke, in 1779; elected K.G. 1782, and appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1784, in which office he died, October 24, 1787. Married Lady Mary Isabella, daughter of Charles, 4th Duke of Beaufort. Half-length, life-size, to right, head to left, red cloak with fur trimming. Canvas (oval) 27i X 22 in. Painted in 1776. The following item appears in Reynolds's pocket-book for this year: — "Lord Granby given to Lord Lothian, Feb., ^36: 15: o." The Duke of Rutland was a great patron of the painter. In 1779 he bought " The Nativity," for which he paid ^1,200 — a price for an English picture"at that time quite unexampled. Again in January, 1780, we find the painter visiting Belvoir and executing portraits of the Duchess and her two eldest children, the Marquess of Granby and Lady Elizabeth Manners ; both pictures being afterwards burnt in 1816 : and in 1786 Reynolds carries through for the Duke the purchase of the " Seven Sacraments " of Poussin, obtained from the Borrapudule Palace at Rome. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Marquess of Lothian, K.T. 169. George Simon, Viscount Nuneham, afterwards 2nd Earl HARCOURT, AGED 1/ (1736-1809). Eldest son of the 1st Earl Harcourt. Was educated at Westminster ; styled Viscount Nuneham m 1749; elected M.P. for St. Albans in 1761, and in the same year was Page of Honour to George III. at his Coronation. Succeeded as Earl Harcourt in 1777, and was appointed Master of the Horse to Queen Charlotte in 1790. Died without issue April 20, 1809. In his early days Lord Nuneham spent much time m foreign travels ; in consequence his entrance into public life was marked by a decided preference for French manners and fashions, and his appearance so adapted to it as almost to disguise the exterior of an Englishman. Half-length, life-size, to right, black dress ; he holds in left hand a sketch. Canvas 34J X 27* in. This picture was painted in 1753, or two years earlier than that of his father, the ist Earl (see No. 145). There is no mention of it in Reynolds's diary. Lord Harcourt in his catalogue states that it cost ^12 loj., and in praising the picture says "the transparent colouring of this head can scarcely be surpassed." The painter seems to have been on intimate terms with the Harcourt family, and Nuneham was one of his favourite visiting places. The 2nd Earl had a fine and cultivated taste in the arts, was an excellent etcher and a clever draughtsman. Walpole writes to him in the highest praise of his work. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by £. W. Harcourt, Esq. NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 57 170. Charles Pratt, ist Earl of Camden (17 14-1794). Lord Chancellor. 3rd son of Sir John Pratt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench ; was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, rose to eminence at the bar, appointed Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales in 1755, Attorney- General in 1757, and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1762, when he was knighted. In this position he gained great popularity by discharging AA/^ilkes in 1763. He was created Baron Camden in 1765, was Lord Chancellor for 1766-1770, Lord President of the Council in 1782, and again in 1784, and was advanced to an Earldom in 1786. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left ; black gown, lace cravat, and ruffles. Canvas 50 x 40 in. There are two other portraits of Earl Camden by Reynolds. One, painted in 1764-65 for the Common Council, in commemoration of the judgment in the matter of general warrants, is in the Guildhall ; the other, painted in 1767, now hangs at Bayham. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Duke of Grafton, K.G. 171. William Cavendish, sth Duke of Devonshire, K.G. (1748-1811). Son of the 4th Duke ; was Page of Honour to George III. at his coronation, succeeded as 5th Duke in 1764, was constituted Lord High Treasurer of Ireland in 1766, and created a K.G. in 1782. Died July 29, 181 1. He married ist Georgiana, daughter of John, ist Earl Spencer, June 5, 1774 and 2ndly Ehzabeth, daughter of Frederick, 42nd Earl of Bristol, October 19, 1809. Three-quarter length, hfe-size, to left, blue coat, red mantle, and perruque ; in right hand paper, left rests on marble-topped table. Canvas 53 x 38 in. Painted at Rome. By A. VON Maron. Lent by The MARQUESS OF Hartington, M.P. 172. Mrs. John Williams {nee Currie) as "St. Cecilia." Full-length, life-size ; seated to left ; head raised is looking up towards two cherubim ; white dress and gold girdle ; her right elbow rests on an organ, the hand being raised to the face ; in left scroll of music. Canvas 93 x 57 in. The painter was very fond of this picture, and kept it in his studio, from whence it was taken shortly before his death by the father of the present owner. The picture was commenced about 1806, but it was several years before it was completed. By Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by Colonel Moreton Wheatley. 173. General Sir John Moore, K.C.B. (1761-1809). Eldest son of Dr. John Moore. Born at Glasgow ; obtained at the age of fifteen an en- signcy in the 51st Regiment, of which in 1790 he became Lieut. -Colonel and served with his corps in Corsica, where he was wounded in storming the Mazello fort at the siege of 58 Exhibition of the Royal Hoiise of Guelph. Calvi. In 1796 he went to the West Indies as Brigadier-General to Sir Ralph Abercromby, and was appointed Governor of St. Lucia. On his return in 1797 he was employed in Ireland, took part in the expedition to Holland in 1799, and soon afterwards went to Egypt and was twice wounded. For his conduct in the campaign he was made a K.C.B. In 1808 he was appointed to the command in Spain, and fell by a cannon-shot under the walls of Corunna, January 16, 1809, after a skilful and arduous retreat before a very superior force. The House of Commons ordered a monument to be erected to him in St. Paul's Cathedral. Half-length, life-size, facing, in military uniform. Canvas 30 X 24 in. After Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by John Carrick Moore, Esq. 174. Admiral Sir Graham Moore, G.C.B. (i 764-1 843). Entered the navy at the age of thirteen, served in the West Indies under Lord Byron, and in the Mediterranean under Lord Howe, being present at the relief of Gibraltar. He was appointed Post-Captain in 1794, and being in command of the Melmnpus rendered signal service in the Channel during the long war with France. In 181 5 he was made a K.C.B. , promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral in 1819 and sent to the Mediterranean, where he spent the usual period of command. In 1820 Moore was appointed a G.C.M.G., in 1836 a G.C.B., and in 1837 promoted to full Admiral. He retired from service in 1839, ^.nd died November 25, 1843, Cobham, Surrey. Half-length, life-size, facing, in naval uniform. Canvas 30 X 24 in. After Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by John Carrick Moore, Esq. 175. George Augustus Eliot, Lord Heathfield, K.B. (1718-1790). General. Youngest son of Sir Gilbert Eliot ; studied at Leyden and at the military school of La Fere, Picardy ; served in Germany, and was wounded at Dettingen ; appointed in 1759 to raise the ist Regiment of Light Horse, with which he served on the Continent with great reputation, and in 1775 Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, whence he returned soon afterwards and was made Governor of Gibraltar. That fortress he defended with consummate skill and courage when besieged by the French and Spaniards for a space of three years, from 1779- 1783. On his return to England he was raised to the peerage under the title of Lord Heathfield, Baron Gibraltar, and made a K.B. Died in 1790 at Aix-la-Chapelle. Three-quarter length, life-size ; facing, head to left, in naval uniform and star of the Bath ; in right hand key, which rests on left ; on left, sextant ; on right, mortar. Canvas 56 x 45 in. The original of this picture, which represents Lord Heathfield at the age of nearly 70, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1788. It was painted for Mr. Alderman John Boydell, and is now in the National Gallery. Northcote describes Lord Heath- field as enlivening his sittings to Sir Joshua Reynolds with various narratives and droll anecdotes of the great Frederick and others. It has been engraved by Richard Earlorn. After Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Corporation of the City of London. NORTH GALLERY.] Po7^traits, 59 176. John, ist Earl Ligonier (1678-1770). Distinguished general. Born of an ancient family ; entered the army, and served through the Duke of Marlborough's campaigns with great distinction ; was made a knight- banneret on the field at Dettingen in 1743 '■> served with renown at Raucoux in 1746, and at Laffeldt in 1747, where he was taken prisoner. He was appointed Field-Marshal and Commander-in-Chief, and created an Irish peer by the title of Viscount Ligonier, and in 1763, advanced to the English peerage by the title of Baron Ligonier of Ripley, and in 1766, created Earl Ligonier. Died 1770, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Equestrian figure, under life-size, galloping to right, looking back, in military uniform and Order of the Bath ; in right hand baton ; in the background scene of the Battle of Dettingen. Canvas 56 x 60 in. There is a replica of this picture in the National Gallery. It was painted in 1760, and exhibited in Spring Gardens in 1761 and following years. Lord Ligonier was in his eighty-second year when the picture was painted ; it was necessary, therefore, for the painter to ante-date the features — a task of no small difficulty to one who represented nature as he saw it. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Duke of Sutherland, K.G. 177. Hester Grenville, Baroness and Countess Chatham (d. 1803). The only daughter of Richard Grenville of Wootton, and Hester Temple created Countess of Temple; married October 16, 1754, William Pitt, afterwards ist Earl of Chatham. She was created Baroness December 4, 1761, and became Countess in 1766. Died April 3, 1803. Half-length, life-size, to right, white dress, blue scarf. Canvas 30 X 24 in. Painted in 1750, and bought in 1848 from the collection at Stowe. By T. Hudson. Lent by The Earl Stanhope. 178. John Scott, Earl of Eldon (175 1-1838). Lord Chancellor. Born at Newcastle, the son of John Scott, coalfitter, and younger brother of Lord Stowell, was educated at University College, Oxford, where he took the Chancellor's prize, chose the bar as a profession, and in 1783, through the influence of Lord Thurlow, entered Parliament for the borough of Weobley, soon showing himself to be a clever legislator and a fluent speaker. He was appointed Solicitor- General, and knighted in 1788, Attorney General in 1793, and succeeded, in 1799, Sir James Eyre as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, being raised to his peera;je as Baron Eldon of Eldon in Durham. In 1801 he was nominated Lord Chancellor, and but for a short period, from February, 1806, to April, 1807, retained the office till April, 1827. At the coronation of George IV., he was promoted to the dignities of Viscount Encombe and Earl of Eldon. Died in London, January 13, 1838. Sir Samuel Romilly declared in the House of 6o Exhibition of the Royal Hottse of Guelph. Commons that, " there never presided in the Court of Chancery, a man of more deep and various learning in his profession, and in anxiety to do justice that Court had never seen the equal of the Lord Chancellor." Half-length, life-size, facing ; black coat. Canvas 30X 24 in. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825. It was engraved by G. T. Doo, R.A., in 1827, and by J. Porter in 1844 for the Lawrence work. Lawrence had executed a previous portrait of Eldon, as Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1800. By Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Eldon. 179. Death of Admiral Viscount Nelson, K.B., in the Cockpit OF H.M.S. " Victory " off Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. Canvas 103 x 76 in. After the Battle of Trafalgar Devis went out to meet the Victory, and made the sketch for this picture. It was engraved by W. Bromley in 1812, and was presented by the Right Hon. Lord Bexley to the Gallery of Greenwich Hospital in 1825. By A. W. Devis. Lent by The Lords of the Admiralty (Greenwich Hospital). 180. Captain James Cook, F.R.S. (i 728-1 779). Celebrated navigator. Born at Marton, in Yorkshire, began his naval career in the merchant service, and obtained a warrant as master of the Mercury, in which ship he took part in the capture of Quebec. After various and arduous services he was raised to the rank of Lieutenant, and then commenced those series of voyages which have made his name so remarkable. His first voyage was in 1768, as commander of the Endeavour, in which he reached New Holland (Australia) in 1770. In his second voyage in 1772, with Resolution and Adventure, he visited New Zealand, and in his third, again commanding the Resolution, and accompanied by the Discovery, he found the Sandwich Islands, where he was murdered by some of the natives of Owyhee, February 14, 1779. In 1775 Cook was elected a F.R.S., and was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Society for discoveries. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left, head to right ; in naval uniform, holding in both hands a chart of the world. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By N. Dance, R.A. Lent by The Lords of the Admiralty (Greenwich Hospital). 181. Edward Pellew, ist Viscount Exmouth, G.C.B. (1757-1833). Admiral. Born at Dover ; entered the navy at the age of thirteen ; appointed in 1793 Captain of La J\ymphe, with which he captured the frigate La Cleopatra after a most determined and gallant action, and for which he was knighted. For his bravery and NORTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 6i saving the crew of the Dtitton, East Indiaman, in 1796 he was created a baronet, and afterwards distinguished himself in numerous engagements with the French, In 1 810 he was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Blue, blockaded Flushing in 1810, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, and created Baron Exmouth in 1 8 14, being raised to the rank of full Admiral. In 181 5 took place his memorable bom- bardment of Algiers for which he received the thanks of Parliament and was created a Viscount, September 21, 1816. He was made a K.C.B.in 181 5, and a G.C.B. in 1816 ; held the office of Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar from 1817-21, and was successively Admiral of the White 1821, and of the Red 1830. In person he was "tall, full of strength and symmetry, and his personal activity and power were almost unrivalled." Three-quarter length, life-size, facing, head to left ; hands resting on sword ; naval uniform ; ribbon of the Bath and various orders. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By W. Owen, R.A. Lent by The Lords of the Admiralty (Greenwich Hospital). 182. Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton, Dr. John Moore and his SON John (afterwards General) Moore. The personages represented in this picture are Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton, died 1799, Dr. John Moore the eminent medical and miscellaneous writer (1729 — 1802), and his son John, the hero of Corunna (1761 — 1809), see No. 173. In 1772 the Duke of Hamilton set out on a lengthy tour on the Continent, accompanied by Dr. Moore as medical attendant and travelling tutor. They spent five years in visiting some of the most interesting parts of Europe. In company with them was John, Dr. Moore's eldest son. This picture was painted as a memorial of their visit to Rome, which took place in 1773, young Moore being then twelve years old. Life-size figures ; in the centre stands the Duke in red coat, buff waistcoat and breeches, black hat and cloak ; he leans with his left hand on a pedestal ; on his right is seated Dr. Moore, leaning right elbow on his chair and holding stick in his hand, his left hand extended ; on the doctor's left is young Moore, his head raised and his left arm leaning on pedestal ; in the foreground is a mastiff, in the background view of Rome. Canvas 70 X 56 in. By Gavin Hamilton. Lent by The Duke of Hamilton, K.T. 183. Richard Colley, Marquess Wellesley, K.G. (1760-1842). Distinguished statesman. Eldest son of Garrett, ist Earl of Mornington ; born in Grafton Street, Dublin ; succeeded as 2nd Earl of Mornington in the peerage of Ireland in 178 1 ; created Baron Wellesley and Governor-General of India in 1797, where his administration was the most brilliant on record. Created Marquess Wellesley in 1799. He went as ambassador to Madrid in 1809 ; was Foreign Secretary in the administrations 62 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph, of the Duke of Portland and Spencer Perceval, and appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from 1821-1828, and again from 1833-4. Died at Knightsbridge, September 23, 1842. His youngest brother was Arthur, Duke of Wellington. Half-length, life-size, to left ; olive-green coat, badge of K.P., and wig. Canvas 30 X 25 in. By J. HOPPNER, R.A. Lent by The Duke of Wellington. 184. Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, M.P. (1762-1812). Statesman. Second son of the 2nd Earl of Egmont ; was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and having applied himself to the study of the law, entered Parliament in 1796 as member for Northampton, and in 1801 was appointed Solicitor- General, and next year Attorney-General. On the change of administration in 1809, Perceval was appointed First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, which offices he still held when he was assassinated by Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, May 11, 181 2. Half-length, life-size, seated to left, black coat ; paper in left hand. Canvas 29 X 24 in. This picture was painted for Lord Sidmouth. It bore the inscription, " G. F. Joseph, R.A., pinxit i8i2,''and was marked "a posthumous portrait." By G. F. JosEPHj'R.A. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 63 SOUTH GALLERY. ARTS, LETTERS, AND SCIENCE. 185. James Northcote, R.A. (1746-183 i). The son of a watchmaker ; born at Plymouth ; conceived an irresistible inclination for the fine arts ; and was recommended to Sir Joshua Reynolds, in whose studio he assiduously worked for over five years. After this apprenticeship he studied for three years in Rome, and returning to England, 1780, set up as an historical and portrait painter. He was elected an A.R.A. in 1786, and a full member in the following year. Died July 13, 1831. Northcote gained a considerable reputation, not only as a painter, but also an author. His chief publications were, Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds^ One Hu7idred Fables^ and the Life of Titian. Small half-length, facing, looking to left ; black coat. Panel 8 x 7 in. By Sir D. Wilkie, R.A. Lent by G. P. Boyce, Esq. 186. Charles Mathews (1776-1835). C6median. Born in London ; was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and appren- ticed to his father, a bookseller. To the horror of his parents, who were " Methodists," he took to the stage, his first appearance as a professional comedian being at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, in 1794 ; and in London at the Haymarket Theatre in 1803, as Jabal in The Jew. Among the characters in which he most excelled were Mawworm, Sir Fretful Plagiary, Morbleu, Monsieur Mallet, Dick Cyper, and Multiple in the Actor of All Work. In 1818 he abandoned the regular drama and commenced a species of entertainments in the form of a monologue, under the name of Mr Mathews at Home. He twice visited America. Died at Plymouth, June 28, 1835. Small half-length, to right ; black coat. Canvas, 94 X 72 in. By J. J. Masquerier. Lent by The Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 64 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 187. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Philosopher, politician, and philanthropist. Born at Boston, New England, January 6, 1706, the son of a tallow chandler, worked for some years as a journeyman printer, and about 1728 established himself as a bookseller in Philadelphia, where, in 1732, he first published his Poor Richard's Almaiiack. He devoted himself to scientific investigations, establishing the identity of lightning and electricity, and on his appearance in England, in 1757, as agent for Pennsylvania, received the degree of Doctor of Laws at St. Andrew's, Edinburgh and Oxford. He took an active part in the contest between the mother country and her colonies, and as Commissioner for the United States signed the Treaty of Independence at Paris in 1783. He was made Governor of Pennsylvania in 1785, and died April 17, 1790, his countrymen marking their loss by a public mourning for two months. Small half-length, to left, at a table reading from manuscript in left hand ; right hand raised to the chin ; blue coat and wig. Canvas 19 X 15 in. This picture has been more than once engraved. It belonged to Charles, Earl Stanhope. By his will, dated 1805, he bequeathed it to Mr. Deane Walker, who, on retiring from his active avocations as a man of science in i860, restored it to its place at Chevening. By D. Martin. Lent by The Earl Stanhope. 188. Luke Hansard (1752-1828). Printer. Born at Norwich, where he served his apprenticeship, came to London, and was employed in the office of Hughs, printer to the House of Commons, whom he joined in partnership, and ultimately succeeded in the entire business. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left ; black coat ; in right hand a pen, with which he is writing at a table ; in his left a paper. Canvas 36 x 28 in. By W. Lane. Lent by The Stationers' Company. 189. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B. (1743-1820). Zealous naturalist. The son of William Banks, of Revesby Abbey, was educated at Harrow, Eton, and Christchurch, Oxford ; made a voyage in 1763 to Newfoundland and Labrador collecting plants, and in 1768, in company with Solander went with Cook round the world in the capacity of naturalist. In 1772 he visited the Hebrides and Iceland, whence he brought back a rich treasure of natural history specimens. In 1778 he received the Order of the Bath, was elected President of the Royal Society, an office which he held for forty-two years, and in 1781 was made a baronet. His valuable collection of specimens in natural history, as also his library, were bequeathed by him to the British Museum. Three-quarter length, life-size, facing, seated at a desk, in the act of reading a paper which he holds in his right hand ; dark blue coat, ribbon and star of the Bath : on table below, the mace of the Royal Society, inkstand, &c. Canvas 56 X 34 in. By T. Phillips, R.A. Lent by The Royal Society. SOUTH GALLERY.] Forlraits. 65 190. William Wordsworth ( 1 770-1 850). Poet. Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland ; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge ; travelled in France during the period of the Revolution, and in 1808 settled at Allanbank, whence he removed in 181 3 to Rydal, having as his near neighbours Coleridge and Southey, in conjunction with whom were issued the Lyrical Ballads. Under the patronage of Lord Lonsdale he held the appointment of Distributor of Stamps for the county of Westmoreland, which brought him in ^500 a year. His great philosophical poem, the Excursion, was published in 1814, The While Doe of Rylstone in 181 5, and Peter Bell in 1 81 9. In 1843 he succeeded Southey as Poet Laureate. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated under a rock, facing, head to left ; crimson- lined cloak ; left hand rests on papers, right on his knees ; landscape background. Canvas 64 x 52 in. Painted at Rydal Mount for St. John's College, about 1831. By H. W. PiCKERSGiLL, R.A. Lent by St. John's College, Cambridge. 191. "A New Way to Pay Old Debts," with Edmund Kean as " Sir Giles Overreach," and others. The picture illustrates the last scene of the play in which Sir Giles Overreach is represented as drawing his sword upon his daughter. Beginning from the left the figures are : Oxberry, senr., as Marrall ; Munden as Justice Greetiy ; Penley as All worth ; Mrs. Orger as "Margaret"; Mrs. Knight as " Lady Allwork " ; Harley as " Wellborn " ; Hughes as " Order " ; Powell as " Welldo " ; Kean as Sir Giles Overreach " ; Atwood as Tapwell " ; and Bass as " Furnace" ; the kneeling figure is not a portrait, but is introduced to complete the composition. The heads of the painter Clint and the engraver Lupton are seen in the background on the left. Canvas 62 X 92. This play by Massinger was revived at Drury Lane, January 12, 1816, and Kean produced a tremendous effect upon the town by his performance of " Sir Giles Over- reach." He kept close to the character, and indulged himself in few or none of his freaks or relaxations of manner. His performance was vigorous, true, uniform, and complete. It threw the ladies in the side boxes into hysterics ; Lord Byron had a convulsive fit ; and one veteran actress was so overpowered by the last dying speech that she absolutely fainted upon the stage. This picture was painted in 1820. Clint having been so successful in his engraving of the Kemble picture by Harlow, was induced by Welch to paint a companion subject to it. He chose for his composition Massinger's play, in which Kean was then drawing all the town. By G. Clint. Lent by The Committee of the Garrick Club. 192. Joseph Nollekens, R.A. (1737-1823). Sculptor. Son of John Francis Nollekens, a native of Antwerp ; born in London, became a pupil of Scheemaicers, went to Italy and studied under Ciavetti. While at Rome he F 66 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. gained a gold medal from the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Returning to England in 1770, he was elected a member of the Royal Academy, executed many works of great beauty, and amassed a fortune of ^200,000. His best-known works are the monument of Mrs. Howard of Corby Castle, the statue of Pitt at Cambridge and the bust of Fox at Holland House. Small three-quarter length, facing, leaning against block and holding hammer and chisel ; black coat and trousers, and grey waistcoat. Canvas 20 X 15 j in. By G. Harlow. Lent by The Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 193. Lady Elizabeth Foster, afterwards Duchess of Devon- shire (d. 1824). Small bust to left ; white dress, curling hair. Water Colour (oval) 92X8 in, Lent by The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. 194. Mrs. Charles Mathews. Small half-length, facing ; red dress lined with blue ; long hair. Canvas 11 X 9^ in By J. J. Masquerier. Lent by The Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 195. William Strahan, M.P. (1715-1785). Eminent printer, and founder of the house of Messrs. Strahan and Co. Born at Edin- burgh, whence, having acquired a knowledge of his profession, he removed to London, and in 1770 purchased a share of the patent office of King's printer. In 1775 he became member for the borough of Malmesbury, having for his colleague Charles James Fox ; and in the next Parliament he had a seat for Wootton Basset. Died in 1785. Half-length, life-size, seated to left ; red coat and wig ; book in right hand, left rests on his chair. Canvas 36 X 28 in. Painted probably in 1783. The price paid for it, according to Sir Joshua's note- book was ^38 I5i-. By Sir J. Reynolds P.R.A. Lent by Mrs. Arthur Lemon. 196. Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff (1737-1816). Born at Heversham near Kendal ; was educated there and at Trinity College, Cambridge ; appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1764, and succeeded to that of Divinity in 177 1. In 1776 he printed ./4/^7/6'^ Or2j/z^;/z/y, addressed to Gibbon, and in 1782 was advanced to the See of Llandaff, with permission to hold the Archdeaconry of Ely. He published many occasional tracts and writings, amongst which was his Address SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 67 to the People of E7igla7id^ urging them to make large sacrifices to repel the French. He also wrote An Apology for the Bible in answer to Paine's Age of Reason. Three-quarter length, life-size, head facing, standing to right at a table in a laboratory ; on the table are a chemical furnace, books, &c. Canvas 50 x 40 in. Sir Joshua Reynolds records in his Diary that " Mr. Professor Watson " sat for the picture October 6, 1769. He was then Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by C. Knight Watson, Esq. 197. Matthew Prior (1664-172 i). Poet, statesman, and diplomatist. Was educated at Westminster School, and attracting the notice of the Earl of Dorset, was sent by him to St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1687, Prior, in conjunction with Charles Montagu, afterwards Earl of Halifax, published The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, intended to ridicule Dryden's Hind a?td Panther. In 1691 he was appointed Secretary to the English Embassy at the Hague, in 1697 was Secretary to the Embassy at the Treaty of Ryswick, was afterwards Under-Secretary of State, and succeeded Locke at the Board of Trade. After the accession of Anne, Prior joined the Tories, was employed to negotiate the Treaty of Utrecht, and was sent as Ambassador to France. On his return he was threatened with an impeachment, which however, did not take place. He died September 18, 1721, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. It is as a poet that Prior is best remembered. Half-length, life-size, head to right ; red gown, large black cap with blue ribbon. Canvas 30 x 24 in. This picture was formerly in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Stationers' Company. 198. Edward Gibbon (i 737-1 794). The celebrated historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Born at Putney, educated at home till the age of fifteen, then at Magdalen -College, Oxford ; became a convert to the Roman Catholic religion in 1753, but returned to Protestantism, and ended in being a sceptic. He studied at Lausanne, published an essay on the Study of Literature, in 1761, was Captain of the Hampshire Militia; in 1763 visited France and Italy, and in October 1764, while he "sat musing amidst the ruins 6f the Capitol," projected his History of the Roman Efnpire, the first volume of which appeared in 1776, the second and third volumes in 1781, and the three remaining volumes in June 1787, during his residence at Lausanne. He represented Liskeard in Parliament in 1774, and was appointed by Lord North a Commissioner for Trade and Plantations. Died in London, January 15, 1794, having come to England on a visit to Lord Sheffield. Half-length, life-size, facing, head to left ; in scarlet coat, and hair en perruque. Canvas 30 x 24. Painted in 1779 for his friend, Lord Sheffield, and exhibited at the Academy in 1780. Walpole noted the portrait as " good and like." By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Earl of Sheffield. F 2 68 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 199. Sir John Vanbrugh, Knt. (1666-1726). Dramatist and architect. Descended from a Flemish family, his father being Comp- troller of the Treasury- Chamber under Charles II. He brought out in 1697 his comedy of The Relapse, which was followed the next year by the Provoked Wife and yEsop. The Co?2federacy, written for Betterton and Congreve on their erecting a theatre in the Hay- market, was one of the most witty but most licentious of his productions. As an architect Vanbrugh gained distinction by the erection of Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace. Knighted in 1714, he was soon after made Comptroller of the royal works and Surveyor of Greenwich Hospital. Half-length, life-size, in brown coat and wig ; around neck gold chain, to which is suspended the badge of office as Clarenceux King of Arms ; right hand resting on ledge holds a pair of compasses. Canvas 36 x 27 in. (Kit-cat, Ckib). By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. R. Baker, Esq. 200. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1681). Half length, life-size, to left ; green coat with fur collar, and wig. Canvas 30 X 201. William Robertson (1721-1793). Historian. Born at Borthwick, in Midlothian ; was educated at Dalkeith and Edinburgh, and in 1743 was presented to the living of Glasmuir. He took up arms for the Government in the rebellion of 1745 ; was appointed Chaplain of Stirling Castle, and one of his Majesty's chaplains in 1762. He was made Principal of the University of Edinburgh in 1763, and held that office till his death. In 1764 the office of historiographer of Scotland was revived in his favour. His principal works are the History of Charles V. and the History of America — the last published in 1777. Three-quarter length, life-size ; seated to right at a table, on which are a mace and various books ; his arms rest on the chair ; in wig and gown. Canvas 48 X 38 in. By Sir H. Raeburn, R.A. Lent by The University of Edinburgh. 202. Thomas Chatterton (1752- 1770). Poet. Born at Bristol, the son of the Master of the Free School there ; was articled to an attorney in 1767, and in the following year, when the new bridge at Bristol was completed, communicated to Farley's newspaper " A Description of the Friars passing over the Old Bridge," pretended to be taken from an ancient manuscript. This, forgery attracted considerable notice, and emboldened by its success, Chatterton imparted to his friends several papers declared by him to have been discovered in an old chest in Redclyffe Church. He also wrote to Horace Walpole, offering him notes about painters who had lived at Bristol, accompanying his letter with some verses, which he asserted 24 m. By G. RoMNEY. Lent by Mrs. F. Shaw. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits, 69 were written in the 14th century. Walpole, with the aid of his friends Gray and Mason, detected the verses as forgeries. In 1769 Chatterton came to London in full confidence of rising by his talents, but though he was successful in obtaining literary work for magazines, he became despondent, and committed suicide by taking poison in Brook Street, Holborn, May 25, 1770. Small bust, to right, in profile ; red coat, white collar ; long hair. Canvas 14I X 12^ in. This portrait, which represents Chatterton at the age of twelve, was given by his sister, Mrs. Newton, to Southey. It was purchased at the Southey sale by Miss Fenwick, and was given by her to Wordsworth with a reversion to Henry Taylor. 203. Edward Moore (1712-1757). Poet and dramatist. Son of a dissenting minister at Abingdon, Berkshire ; was bred a linen-draper in London, which he quitted for the profession of literature. In 1744 he published his Fables for the Female Sex which procured him many friends, among them being Lord Lyttelton, whom he complimented in a piece entitled The Trial of Selim. After two ineffectual attempts at dramatic composition in the comedies of the Foundling and Gil Bias, he succeeded greatly in the tragedy of The Gamester. He next became editor of The World in which he was assisted by Lords Lyttelton, Chesterfield and Bath, Horace Walpole, Richard Owen Cambridge and Soame Jenyns. Died February 28, Small half-length, to left ; black coat, red waistcoat, embroidered in gold. Canvas (oval) 7 X 54 in. 204. Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The celebrated poet. Born in Lombard Street, where his father had been a successful linen-draper ; was educated at Twyford, near Winchester, whence, having lampooned his master, he was removed to Hyde Park Corner, and afterwards to Binfield, where he studied according to his own bent. He was only sixteen when he produced his Pastorals^ which procured him the friendship of the most eminent wits of the time. His Essay 07i Criticism was published in 171 1, the Rape of the Lock in 17 14, the translation of Homer's Iliad in 1715-20, the Odyssey in 1725, the Dunciad in 1729, and the Essay on Man in 1734. From the proceeds of his Iliad he purchased a villa at Twickenham, which he greatly embellished and where he ever afterwards resided. Died there. May 30, 1744. His parents were Roman Catholics, and to their religion he consistently adhered through life. Half-length, life-size, seated facing, right arm on book ; right hand supporting his head ; green gown and red cap. Canvas 28 X 23 in. This picture, painted in 1732, is described in Lord Harcourt's Catalogue as " the best portrait of him and one of"^ the best works of that master." At the back of the picture was transcribed (until the picture was re-lined by Rutley), the following letter to Simon, Lord Harcourt :— " August 22, 1723. My Lord,— It is a satisfaction to me to Lent by Harry Taylor, Esq. 757- By T. WORLIDGE. Lent by Dr. Edward Hamilton. 70 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. tell your Lordship that I shall not be in any way disappointed of-the honour you intend me, of filling a place in your library with my picture. I came to town yesterday, and got admission to Sir Godfrey Kneller, who assured me the original was done for your Lordship ; and that yon, and no man but you, should have it. I saw the picture there afterwards, and was told by his man that you had sent and put a seal upon it. Give me leave my Lord, with great sincerity, to thank you for so obliging a thought, as thus to make me a sharer in the memory, as I was in the love, of a person who was justly the dearest object to you in the world ; and thus to be authorized by you to be called his friend, after both of us shall be dust. I am ever with all good wishes to your Lordship and your family (in which, too, I must do my mother the justice to join her), my Lord Your most obliged and most faithful servant, A. Pope." In 1792 the picture was sent to London in order that a copy might be made of it for Lord Onslow. (See Harcourt Papers, Vol. III., p. 238.) Engraved by G. White. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by E. W. Harcourt, Esq. 205. Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784). One of the most eminent literary characters of the last century, the son of a bookseller. Born at Lichfield, September i8, 1709 ; was educated at Lichfield and Stourbridge Grammar Schools, and at Pembroke College, Oxford. An academy which he started near Lichfield proving unsuccessful, he came to London in 1735, in company with his pupil David Garrick, and soon found literary work. He published his poem of Lo7idon, a satire, in 1738, Life of Savage, in 1744, The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749, and after more than seven years' labour, his hicHoiiary of the English Language in 1755 ; these were followed at a later date by Rasselas, The Idler, Lives of the Poets, &c. In 1762 he received a pension from George III., in i;65 the degree of LL.D. from Dublin, and M.A. from Oxford in 1755. Died December 13, 1784, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. "Johnson, in appearance, was in all respects massive. His exterior was unwieldy, his manners were not polished, but he had a tender heart." Half-length, life-size, to right ; brown gown, hands raised in act of declamation ; books on shelf in background. Canvas 30 x 25 in. This picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1770, where it hung side by side with those of Goldsmith (see No. 211) and Colman. It was not the first portrait by Reynolds of his friend, as Johnson had already sat to him in 1757, 1761, 1763, and 1767. Again in 1777 Reynolds paints another portrait of Johnson in which he is represented holding a book close to his eyes. Johnson remonstrated against such a record of his near-sightedness, and said to Mrs. Thrale, " Reynolds may paint him- self as deaf as he chooses, but I will not be Blinking SamJ^ Two years later, October 15, 1778, Johnson writes in his diary to Mrs. Thrale, " I have sat twice to Sir Joshua and he seems to like his own performance. He has projected another in which I am to be busy, but we can think on it at leisure." And again (October 31) " Sir Joshua has finished my picture and it seems to please everybody ; but I shall wait to see how it pleases you." By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 206. Thomas Gray (1716-1771). Poet and Scholar. Son of a money-scrivener, born in Cornhill, London, was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and entered at the Inner Temple. He accompanied Horace Walpole on his travels abroad in 1739, but they parted and Gray returned home in 1741. He then settled at Cambridge, and published his Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 1747 ; Elegy ivritten in a Country Churchyard, in 1752. He migrated to Pembroke Hall in 1756, declined the Poet-Laureateship in 1757, and was appointed Pro- fessor of Modern History in 1768. His Progress of Poesy and The Bard were both printed at Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press in 1757. He died in 1 771, and was buried beside his mother at Stoke Poges. Half-length, life-size, to left, brown coat and wig. Canvas 30 x 24 in. By Benjamin Wilson. Lent by Pembroke College, Cambridge. 207. Rev. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768). A descendant of Richard Sterne, Archbishop of York. Born at Clonmel, in Ireland ; was educated at Halifax and Jesus College, Cambridge. Taking holy orders he obtained the living of Sutton with a prebendary stall in York Cathedral, and later on the rectory of Stillington and the curacy of Coxwold. Died in London, March i8, 1768. His literary works, the principal of which are Tristram Shandy and the Sentimetitall Journey, abound in pathetic and humorous scenes. When Tristram Shandy appeared, Walpole says, " Nothing was more talked of, and nothing more admired. The man's head, a little turned before, is now topsy-turvy with his success." Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left, blue gown and wig ; resting head on right hand ; writing table with papers. Canvas 50 X 40 in. Sterne sat for this portrait in March, 1760. He had then produced the first and second volumes only of Tristram Shandy. The poi trait was painted for Lord Ossory, then passed to Lord Holland, and then to the Marquess of Lansdowne, by whom it was purchased on the death of Lord Holland in 1840 for 500 guineas. Sterne, in writing to a friend who wished for his portrait, said, " You must mention the business to Reynolds yourself ; for I will tell you why I cannot. He has already painted a very excellent portrait of me, which, when I went to pay him for, he desired me to accept as a tribute (to use his own elegant and flattering expression) that his heart wished to pay to my genius. That man's way of thinking and manners are at least equal to his pencil." In character Sterne was a " fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy," and in this portrait, with all its expression of intellect and humour, the painter has given the true character of his sitter. Nor is the position of the figure less characteristic than the expression of the face. It is easy, but it has hot the easiness of health. Sterne props himself up. His wig too was subject to odd chances from the humour that was uppermost with its wearer. When by mistake he had thrown a fair sheet of manuscript into the fire instead of the foul one, he tells us that he snatched off his wig " and threw it perpendicularly with all imaginable violence to the top of the room." While he was sitting to Reynolds, this same wig had contrived to get itself a little on one side ; and the painter, with his readiness in 72 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. taking advantage of accident to which we owe so many of the delightful novelties in his works, painted it so, for he must have known that a mitre would not sit long, bishop-fashion, on the head before him. (See Leslie, Life, 6^c., of Sir Joshua Reynolds.) By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Marquess of Lansdowne. 208. Joseph Addison (1672-1719). Poet, statesman, and essayist. Son of Lancelot Addison, Dean of Lichfield, born at Milston, in Wiltshire, was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. Under the patronage of Lord Somers he travelled in Italy, commemorated the victory of Blenheim in a poem called " The Campaign " ; in 1709 was appointed secretary to the Marquess of Wharton in Ireland, and in the same year being elected member for Malmesbury, held the seat to the end of his life. At this period, in connexion with Steele and Swift, he began his famous writings in The Tatler, Spectato7', and Guardian. His tragedy of Cato appeared in 1713. On the accession of George I. he was appointed one of the principal Secretaries of State. Died at Holland House, June 17, 1719, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Half-length, life-size, to right, head facing, blue coat and wig ; right hand rests on his hip. Canvas 36 X 27 in. (Kit-cat Club.) By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. R. Baker, Esq. 209. John Gay (1688-1732). Poet and dramatist. Born at Barnstaple, Devonshire ; began life as a silk mercer, but soon devoted himself to literature, and obtained the friendship of Pope and Swift, to the former of whom he dedicated his Rural Sports in 1711. He was secretary to the Duchess of Monmouth, and attended the Earl of Clarendon to Hanover in 1714. At the suggestion of Swift he composed the Beggar^s Opera, and his well-known Fables were in 1726 'written for the instruction of William, Duke of Cumberland. Gay died in Burhngton Gardens at the residence of his patrons, the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Pope wrote the inscription on his monument. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to right, head nearly facing, loose white cloak with blue lining, and red cap bound with blue ; right arm rests on table, left hand on knee ; dog in the foreground. Canvas 48 x 39 in. Lent by The Earl of Loudoun. 210. Robert Southey (1774-1843). Poet. Son of a linendraper at Bristol ; was educated at Westminster and Balliol College, Oxford, where his talents attracted notice. Having abandoned his intention of taking orders, he travelled for some time in Spain and Portugal, and made his first appearance in the literary world as author of the epic poems Joa7i of Arc and Wat Tyler. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 73 In 1803 he settled at Keswick, with his friends Coleridge and Wordsworth as neighbours, and there commenced a long career of literary labour. He published The Curse of Kehama in 18 10, and Roderick in 18 14, having in the previous year been appointed Poet Laureate. He achieved great popularity through his biographies of Nelson, Wesley, Cowper, and Chatterton ; and having suffered long from tha effects of overwork he died, March 21, 1843. His Common-place Book was published after his death. Half-length, life-size, seated to right ; open black furred coat, holding book in his hands ; badge as Poet Laureate. Canvas 36 x 28 in. By T. Phillips, R.A. Lent by John Murray, Esq. 211. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). This eminent poet, essayist, historian, and dramatist, born at Pallas in the county of Longford, Ireland, November 29, 1728, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, led for some years a wandering life upon the Continent, and returned to England in 1756. He commenced his literary career in circumstances of great poverty, wrote at first obscurely for periodicals of the day, but his admirable poem The Traveller^ published in 1765, introduced him to the notice of the most distinguished literary characters of the time. Two works of the highest merit followed, the Vicar of Wakefield in 1766, and the Deserted Village in 1770. His fame was further enhanced by his two comedies, The Good-Natiired Man and She Stoops to Conquer. He died of a fever at his lodgings in the Temple in 1774. Half-length, life-size, to left ; black coat, brown mantle with fur ; in right hand book. Canvas 30 x 25 in. Goldsmith appears to have first made the acquaintance of Reynolds in 1762, and from that time till his death there existed the warmest affection between these two great men. This portrait was painted by Reynolds in 1766, but was not exhibited at the Academy till 1770, when it appeared side by side with that of Johnson (No. 205). Of this picture Leslie, Life^ &^c., of Sir Joshua Reynolds^ says, " I have seen nothing on canvas more touching. It recalls all that is known of the sufferings of this tenderest and warmest of hearts. In that thoughtful, patient face, the traces of a life of endurance, and the consciousness of being misunderstood and undervalued are as unmistakeable as the benevolence that is meditating how to amuse and make better a world by which it was considered a vulgar face, and which had treated the owner of it so scurvily. Sir Joshua meant to paint the author of the Vicar of Wakefield and of the Deserted Village, and not the Goldy who was laughed at by Boswell and Hawkins and quizzed by Burke." The portrait must have been an object of special attraction, as on May 26, just before the exhibition closed, appeared The Deserted Village with a dedication to Sir Joshua. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. 212. Percy Bysshe Shelley (i 792-1 822). Eminent poet. Son of Sir Timothy Shelley, born at Field Place, Horsham, Sussex, was educated at Eton, where at the age of eighteen he published two novels, Zastrozzi and 74 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. St. Irvine^ or The Rosicrucian. Went to Oxford, but was expelled for his small pamphlet entitled The Necessity oj Atheism. Married in 1811 Harriet Westbrook, but separated from her in 181 3. Having formed an acquaintance with Mary, daughter of John Godwin and Mary Wollstonecroft, he travelled with her on the Continent, married her on the death of his wife, and finally permanently resided in Italy, where he lived in friendship with Byron, Keats, and Leigh Hunt. In 1822, on returning from a visit to Byron at Pisa, he was drowned in an open boat in the Gulf of Lerici. His chief poetical works are Queen Mab, The Revolt of I slam ^ Prometheus Unbound^ and Cenci. Half-length, under life-size, facing, blue coat and large white open collar, his right arm on table and holding pen. Canvas 24 X 19 in. Painted in Rome in 1818, and done from life at one sitting. By Miss Amelia Curran. Lent by Lady Shelley. 213. George Gordon Noel, 6th Lord Byron (1788-1824). The Poet. Son of Captain John Byron and Catherine Gordon of Gight, born in Holies Street, London, January 22, 1788. Succeeded his great-uncle William, Lord Byron, in 1798, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 181 5 he married the daughter of Sir Ralph Noel Milbank, but this union proved singularly infelicitous. A separation took place, and Byron retired to the Continent never to revisit his native country. He resided chiefly in Italy, but in 1823 was attracted to Greece to aid in the struggle for independence with his influence and his money. In the following year whilst at Missolonghi, he caught a severe cold, from the effects of which he died on April 19. His remains were brought to England, and were buried in the church of Hucknall Torkard, near Newstead. Lord Byron's writings are so well known and so recent, as not to require notice here. Half-length, Hfe-size, to left,nn profile, his right arm placed on table and supporting his head ; red coat and black cloak. Canvas 36 x 30 in. By R. Westall, R.A. Lent by The Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 214. Thomas Campbell (i 777-1 844). Poet. Son of a Scottish merchant, was born and educated at Glasgow, acted as private tutor in Edinburgh, and in 1799 pubHshed his Pleasuies of Hope, which founded his fame. After travellmg for a time on the Continent he wrote The Exile of Erin, Hohenliftde?t, and Ye Mariners of England, some of the noblest lyrics of modern times. Having settled in London, in 1803 he wrote The Battle of the Baltic, Lord Ullin's Daughter, Specimens of British Poets, with biographical and critical notices, and edited the New Monthly and Metropolitan Magazines, &c. He interested himself much in the foundation of the University of London, took an active part in the cause cf Greece, and was twice Rector of the University of Glasgow. He died at Boulogne June 15, 1844, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Half-length, life-size, to left, head nearly facing; black coat, right arm resting on chair. Canvas 36 X 28 in. By T. Phillips, R.A. - Lent by John Murray, Esq. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 7S 215. Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1771-1832). Poet and novelist. Born at Edinburgh, the son of a Writer to the Signet, was educated at the High School in that city, and was called to the Bar in 179 1. He produced in 1805 The Lay of the Last Minstrel^ which was followed by Marmioii in 1808, and The Lady of the Lake m 1809. Waverley^ the first of the famous series of novels bearing that title, was issued in 181 4. These were published anonymously, and it was not until 1827 that the authorship was publicly admitted. He was created a baronet by George IV. at Holyrood in 1822, and died at Abbotsford, worn out by his incessant exertions to retrieve his fortunes, having by the failure of his pubhshers in 1826 incurred an obligation to the amount of 2" 100,000. He was buried at Dry burgh Abbey. Half-length, life-size, facing, head to left, black coat, grey waistcoat. Canvas Divine and Poet. Born at Hull, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and became Fellow of Pembroke College in 1747, was rector of Aston, Yorkshire, chaplain to George II., and Canon of York. He was opposed to the American War, was the friend and biographer of Gray, and author of Caractacus and Elfrida, tragedies, of odes, and occasional poems. He possessed some skill as a painter and musician. Half-length, life-size, to left ; brown coat ; scroll in left hand. Canvas 30 x 25 in. Painted in 1775, Mason being then in his fiftieth year. This picture was given to Mr. Stonhewer, and bequeathed by him to Pembroke College, according to Mason's request. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by Pembroke College, Cambridge. 217. Sir Isaac Newton, Knt. (1642-1726). Philosopher. Born at Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire ; was educated at Grantham an^ Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics with great diligence, and in 1664 made the discovery of the nature of light and colours. He succeeded Dr. Barrow as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669, and brought forward his discoveries in optics in his lectures, 1669-1671. In 1672 he was elected a F.R.S., represented Cambridge University in Parliament from 1689-90, and in 1699 was appointed Master of the Mint, in which capacity he effected many improvements in the coinage. He was chosen Pre- sident of the Royal Society in 1703, and in 1705 received the honour of knighthood. His Principia was first published in 1687, but his Observations 07i ike Prophecies did not appear till after his death. He died at Kensington at the age of eighty-four, having retained his faculties to the last ; and, after lying in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, wheie a monument was erected to him, which was executed by Rysbrack. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to right, head turned to left ; in light brown 30 X 24 m. By Sir H. Raeburn. Lent by The Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 216. The Rev. W. Muir Mason (1725-1797). 76 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. robe ; right hand rests on table, left on his chest. Inscribed " Isaacus Nevvtonus, Aetatis 69, 17 10. R. Bentleius, Coll. Mag." Canvas 50 X 40. Painted for Dr. Bentley, and given by him to the College. 218. Sir Richard Steele, Knt. (1671-1729). Essayist and dramatic writer. Born at Dublin, his father being secretary to the Duke of Ormond ; was educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, and obtained an ensigncy in the Guards. While in that service he wrote the Christian Hero, which was followed by his first comedy in 1702 entitled Grief d la Mode. In 1709 he began the Tatler under the name of " Isaac Bickerstaff," aided by Addison, on laying down which he commenced the Spectator^ which was succeeded by the Guardian. In 17 13 Steele entered Parliament for Stockbridge, but was soon after expelled for writing the Englishman and the Crisis. At the accession of George I. he was made surveyor of the royal stables, governor of the King's company of comedians, and knighted. For his play of the Conscious Lovers the King gave him ^500. Died at Llangunnor, Caermarthenshire. Half-length, Hfe-size, to right, head facing, brown loose coat and wig ; right arm rests on pedestal. Canvas 36 x 27 in. (Kit-cat Club.) By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. R. Baker, Esq. 219. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761). Novelist. Born in Derbyshire, was apprenticed to a London printer named Wilde, and having set up for himself in business, was by the interest of Speaker Onslow employed in printing the Journals of the House of Commons. A flourishing business as a publisher afforded him opportunities for the publication of his own works. Paniela appeared in 1740, was followed by Clarissa Harlowe, and The History of Sir Charles Grandiso7i, his last great work, in 1753. Richardson was pious and benevolent, but immensely vain, and lived surrounded by a circle of affectionate and flattering friends, mostly ladies. Three-quarter length, life-size, to left ; brown coat and wig ; his right hand inserted in his coat ; in left a book. Canvas 50 x 40 in. By J. Highmore. Lent by The Stationers' Company. 220. William Cowper (1731-1800). One of the most popular of English poets. Born at Berkhampstead, Herts, the son of the rector of the place ; educated at Market Street, Herts, and at Westminster ; was articled to a solicitor, took up his residence in the Temple, and being called to the Bar in 1754 was appointed a clerk in the House of Lords, but resigned owing to his extreme nervousness, which developed into insanity, a malady which occasionally returned. In 1782 he published a volume of poems ; The Task \n 1784, and in 1791 a translation of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer. Becoming acquainted with Mrs. Unwin he resided By Sir J. Thornhill. Lent by Trinity College, Cambridge. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 77 chiefly with her till her death in 1796. He died April 25, 1800. His life and his admir- able letters were published by WilHam Hayley in 1803. Half-length, life-size; to right, black coat, red cap. Canvas 30 x 244 in. This picture was presented by Romney to his friend, William Hayley, of Felpham, Sussex, and was brought from thence with the portrait of Anna Seward. (See No. 231). By G. Romney. • Lent by W. Percival Boxall, Esq. 221. Henry Fielding (?) (1707-1754). Novehst. Born at Sharpham Park, Somersetshire ; was educated at Eton and Leyden, and upon his return from thence began to write for the stage. His first piece was Love in Several Masques^ which was well received, as also his comedy of The Temple Bear. After his marriage to Miss Craddock he was entered at the bar, but continued to write, and produced a number of political tracts ; but his genius appeared to most advantage in his novels of Joseph Andrews^ Tom Jo7ies^ and Amelia. Half-length, life-size, seated to right, brown coat and wig, reading a book which he holds with both hands. Canvas 29 X 24 in. Lent by The Hon. Gerald Ponsonby. 222. John Keats (1795-1821). Poet. Born in London, was apprenticed to a surgeon, but becoming acquainted with Leigh Hunt and other literary celebrities, and incited by their praises published a volume of poems. These were followed in 1817 by Endymion^ a poetical romance, and in 1820 by Lamia and other poems. The severe criticisms which these poems met with in the Quarterly Review produced an injurious effect on the health of Keats, and in consequence he was recommended to try the climate of Rome, where he arrived in November, 1820, accompanied by his friend Severn the artist. He died at Rome, February 27, following. Small half-length, to right, seated at a table, in grey coat ; his right hand rests on an open book before him ; his left hand supports his head. Panel 111X9 in. A posthumous portrait painted by Joseph Severn at Pome in 1832. By J. Severn. Lent by G. P. Boyce, Esq. 223. Charles Lamb (1775-1834). Essayist and poet. Born in London ; was educated at Christ's Hospital, and about 1789 obtained a situation as clerk in the India House, where he continued till 1825. Died at Edmonton, December 27, 1834. His first literary adventure was a small volume of poems (1797), written conjointly with Coleridge and Lloyd. This was followed by John Woodvil, a tragedy (1802); but Lamb's fams rests mainly on his prose works, especially his charming Essays oj Elia. Small half-length, facing, dark coat, hand on book, and holding pen. Canvas 14 X II in. A reduced copy by Henry Meyer of a life-size portrait painted by him in 1827. It belonged to the grandfather of the present owner. By H. Meyer. Lent by Right Hon. Sir C. Wentworth Dilke, Bart. 78 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 224. Richard Bentley, D.D. (1662-1742). Eminent scholar and critic. Born at Wakefield, Yorks., was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and first showed the great power of his mind in 1692, when he was appointed first " Boyle Lecturer." Soon after broke out his quarrel with Boyle, the main result of which was his famous Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris. In 1700, he was made Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Archdeacon of Ely. Working hard as a scholar and effecting improvements in his college, he became involved in many quarrels and litigations with the college seniors, andafter obtaining the Regius Professorship of Divinity was degraded and deprived by the senate. After years of litigation the sentence was annulled. His writings are very numerous, including editions of Terence^ Horace^ Phadros, Milton's Paradise Lost, &c. " In person he was tall,, graceful, and well propor- tioned, his countenance comely and fresh, and his conversation cheerful, discreet, and very instructive." Three-quarter length, life-size, facing, head to left, in gown, right hand rests on book placed on a table. Inscribed "^t. 48. 17 10." Canvas 50 X 40 in. By Sir J. Thornhill. Lent by Trinity College, Cambridge. 225. Rev. George Crabbe (1754-1832). Poet. Born at Aldborough, Suffolk. Was brought up to the medical profession, but abandoned it for literature. He came to London in 1770, obtained the friendship of Burke, who took him into his house, examined all his compositions, and signifying his approval of The Library and The Village, assisted in their publication. Crabbe in 1781 took priest's orders, was soon after appointed Chaplain to the Duke of Rutland, and having held several benefices, died as rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire. His other principal poems are The Aewspaper, The Parish Register, Tales of the Hall, &c. Half-length, life-size, seated, full face, hands clasped ; black coat, landscape back- ground, signed " T. P., 1820." Canvas 36 X 28 in. By T. Phillips, R.A. Lent by John Murray, Esq. 226. William Congreve (1669-1728). Dramatic writer and poet. Born at Bardsay Grange near Leeds ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; entered the Middle Temple, and published in 1693 his first play. The Old Bachelor, under the patronage of Dryden ; The Mourning Bride in 1697, and The Way of the World in 1700. He held several government sinecures, and at his death left ^30,000 to the Duchess of Marlborough. He was a handsome man, of polished address, and reputed the greatest wit of his time. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. Half-length, life-size, to right ; brown coat and wig ; right hand pointing before him. Canvas 36 x 27 in. (Kit-cat Club.) By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. R. Baker, Esq. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 79 227. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Critic, poet, and metaphysician. Born at Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, was educated at Christ's Hospital, where Charles Lamb was a pupil at the same time, and at Jesus College, Cambridge. At Bristol he associated with Southey, Burnet, and Lovell, to found a pansocratic community in America, but the scheme failed through want of funds. In 1794, with the aid of a Bristol bookseller, Coleridge was first enabled to publish a volume of poems, the commencement of an eminent literary career. The Ancient Mariner and the first part of Christabel were written in 1797, and his tragedy, Remorse^ was also composed about this period. Later on he resided at the Lakes with Southey and Wordsworth as his neighbours. After the publication of the Lyrical Ballads^ the three were known as the " Lake Poets." Coleridge afterwards became connected with the Morni?ig Post, and died at Highgate, July 25, 1834. Half-length, life-size, to left ; black coat, in right hand snuff-box. Canvas 35 X 27^ in. By T. Phillips, R.A. Lent by John Murray, Esq. 228. Samuel Rogers (1762-1855). Poet. Author of The Pleasures of Memory^ Human Life, and Italy. Born at Stoke Newington, the son of a banker, received a careful education, and being introduced into the banking house, remained a partner through life. He formed a valuable collection of works of art, and was familiar with almost every distinguished contemporary author, orator, and artist, and many works were dedicated to him as memorials of friendship or admiration. Half-length, life-size, to left, red coat; left ha id raised to chin. Canvas 229. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's (1667-1745). Born in Dublin. Educated at Kilkenny and Trinity College, DubHn ; became secretary to Sir William Temple, and in 1704 published the Tale of a Tub, Having joined the Tory party, he wrote many political pamphlets on their side, Harley and St. John being his principal friends. He is stated to have privately married in 1716 Esther Johnson, " Stella". He was appointed Dean of St. Patrick's in 17 13, and pubhshed in 1724 the Draper's Letters, and in 1727 Gulliver's Travels. During the latter years of his life, his mind was clouded in consequence of an affection of the brain. Half-length, life-size, to right, in Doctor's robes and wig. Canvas 29I x 24 in. Presented to the Bodleian in 1739, by Swift's friend and correspondent. Alderman Barber. Engraved by Vertue. By C. JERVAS. Lent by The Bodleian Library, Oxford. 230. William Godwin (1756-1836). Novelist and miscellaneous writer. Son of a dissenting minister ; born at Wisbech, entered on his profession as a preacher, but abandoned it for literature in 1783. His 29 X 23 m. By J. HOPPNER, R.A. Lent by The Earl of Ilchester. So Exhibition of the Royal Hottse of Guelph. treatise on Political Justice, advocating the principles of the French Revolution, published in 1793, created a sensation, and was followed by the remarkable novel Caleb Williams. In 1797 he married Mary Wolstonecraft, who died the same year, and having remarried in 1 801, opened a bookseller's shop in Skinner Street. After Lord Grey's accession to office Godwin was appointed Yeoman Usher to the Exchequer. Besides the above he wrote several novels, ^t. Leo?i, Fleetwood, Mandeville, tragedies, essays, &c., and some school- books under the name of Edwin Baldwin. Bust, full face, brown coat. Canvas 30 X 25 in. By Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Lent by The Lady Shelley. 231. Anna Seward (i 747-1 809). Daughter of the Rev. Thomas Seward ; born at Eyam, Derbyshire ; wrote elegiac poems on Major Andre and Captain Cook, published in 1782 her poetical romance Louisa, a collection of sonnets in 1799, and a Life of Darwin in 1804. She resided chiefly at Lichfield, where her father had a canonry. Her miscellaneous works were edited by Sir Walter Scott in 1810, and her letters, which she left to Constable, were published in 181 1. Half-length, life-size, to left, head to right, white dress, black scarf, powdered hair ; sky background. Canvas 28 X 22^ in. In the Letters of Anna Seward, published in 181 1, are several mentions of this picture, which was painted by Romney at the suggestion of William Hayley, of Felpham, as a present to her father, to whom she was deeply attached. She thus writes from Lichfield, June i, 1788: "We wish to express our gratitude for your having persuaded Romney to gratify my father, by his possessing, ere he dies, the promised treasure. It arrived last night ; rich, adorned, and invaluable, by the Romneyan powers, the most masterly portrait. ... I placed it by my father's bed- side at seven this morning. He wept with joy when I undrew the curtain, wanted to kiss it, and has talked of and looked at it all day." This letter was addressed to Mr. Hayley, and in it mention is made of young Cary (afterwards the translator of Dante), whose son some twenty years ago saw the picture, and at once recognized the portrait as that of his godmother, Anna Seward, and well remembered it in his childhood at Mr. Hayley's at Felpham. By G. Romney. Lent by W. Percival Boxall, Esq. 232. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859). Poet and essayist. Son of Isaac Hunt, an American settled in London ; born at Southgate, and educated at Christ's Hospital. He commenced his literary career, soon after leaving school, as a theatrical critic, and founded in 1808, with his brother, the Examiner, for the purpose of promoting Liberal opinions and Parliamentary reform. He was prosecuted for his articles, and condemned to two years' imprisonment and a fine of ^500, but on his release still continued to write in the same tone. In 1821 he went to Italy, where he spent some years in friendship with Byron and Shelley. His chief works SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits, 81 were The Story of Rijiiini ; Wit iuid Humour ; The Old Court Suburb ; Men, Women, and Books, &c. In 1847 he received a Government pension of 200, and died at Putney in 1859. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left, face turned to the spectator, black coat ; open book in left hand. Canvas 42 x 34 in. By S. Laurence. Lent by Miss Laurence. (The daughter of the artist.) 233. John Fawcett (1768-1837). Actor. Son of an actor. Born in London ; was engaged in the York Company, where he married Mrs. Mills, who died in 1797 ; appeared in London at Covent Garden in 1791 as Caleb in He would be a Soldier j and a few years later made a great hit as Dr. Pangloss. His characters were not very numerous, but were highly finished delinea- tions, particularly Autolycus, Touchstone and other Shakespearian parts. He retired from the stage 1830, and died at his house near Botley, Hants, March 13, 1837. Half-length, life-size, to left ; in black coat and hat. Canvas (oval) 30 X 24 in. By Sir M. A. Shee, P.R.A. Lent by Henry Irving, Esq. 234. Mrs. Elizabeth Billington (1768-1818). The most celebrated English female singer of her time. Daughter of Carl Weichsel, musician, born in London, exhibited her musical talents at an early age, and married when only sixteen James Billington, one of the band at Drury Lane. She appeared at Covent Garden in 1786 as Rosetta in Arne's Love in a Village, and from thence- forward was a leading vocalist both at home and abroad. Her husband dying in 1794, she married in 1799 M. Felissent, a French adventurer. Died at her estate of St. Artien, near Venice, August 25, 1818. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated to left, white dress ; left hand on her lap holds end of her scarf. Canvas 35 x 27 in. By J. Hoppner, R.A. Lent by H. L. Bischoffsheim, Esq. 235. Samuel Foote (1720-1777). Actor and dramatist. Born at Truro, was educated there and at Worcester College, Oxford, studied law at the Temple, but took to the stage, combining acting with dramatic writing. In 1747 he commenced at the Haymarket portraits of characters in which he alone appeared on the stage. At various times he wrote upwards of twenty plays. In 1766 he broke his leg and had it amputated, but acted with a cork leg. After a life of great vicissitudes and irregularity, he died at Dover, October 21, 1777, on his way to France, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His conversational wit was considered unrivalled. Foote married Mary, sister of Sir Horace Mann ; and Horace Walpole in a letter, December 26, 1743, says, " I knew your new brother-in-law at school ; but have not r. 82 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. seen him since. But your sister was in love, consequently must be happy to have him. Yet I own I cannot much felicitate anybody that marries for love. It is bad enough to marry, but to marry where one loves, ten times worse." Three-quarter length, life-size, facing, head raised to left ; leaning on a stick, arms crossed ; white coat, yellow-flowered waistcoat and wig. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Lord Sackville. 236. Kitty Fisher (d. 177 1). 1 The daughter of a German staymaker ; was a celebrated beauty of her time, and remarkable for her wit. She married, in 1766, Mr. Norris, a Kentish gentleman and died about September, 1771. There are seven portraits of her by Sir Joshua Reynolds : she first sat to him in 1759. Three-quarter length, seated, facing, head to left; white dress ; hands folded on her knee ; landscape background. Canvas 50 X 40 in. By F. Cotes, R.A. Lent by Charles Butler, Esq. 237. Martin Folkes, P.R.S. (1690-1754). Scholar and antiquary. Born in Great Queen Street, was educated at Saumur and Clare College, Cambridge, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of twenty-three, of which he became President in 1741, and President of the Society of Antiquaries in 1750. He was a large contributor to the Philosophical Transactions and published A Table of Efiglish Gold Coins. Half-length, life-size, to left, brown coat and wig ; right hand raised in act of declamation. Canvas 29 X 24 in. Painted in 1741, and engraved by Hogarth. By W. Hogarth. Lent by The Royal Society. 238. William Whitehead (1715-1788). Poet. The son of a baker, born at Cambridge, was educated at Winchester and Clare Hall, and succeeded in 1757 Colley Cibber as poet laureate, which post he held till his death, April 14, 1788. He wrote the tragedies of The Roman Father, and Cretisa, the comedy of The School for Lovers ; a farce. Trip to Scotland, and several miscellaneous pieces. His writings are now almost forgotten. Half-length, life-size, to right, in brown coat and brown wig ; badge of the Poet Laureate. Canvas oval 29 x 24 in. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits. 83 The artist appears to have been a^ long time painting this picture. Its progress is mentioned in several letters from Whitehead to Lord Nuneham, extending from June 20, 1758, to September 16, 1760. (See Harcoiirt Papers, Vol. III., p. 251.) By R . Wilson. Lent by E. W. Harcourt, Esq. 239. Portrait of a Lady, an Actress. Half-length, life-size, facing ; black dress, white stomacher, and high white cap powdered hair. Canvas 30 x 25 in. By J. HOPPNER, R.A. ? Lent by G. P. BoYCE, EsQ. 240. James Quin (1693-1766). Actor. Son of a barrister of Irish family; born in King Street,Covent Garden ; he received his education in Dublin, where he went on the stage in 17 14; next appeared at Drury Lane, where Booth and Gibber were acting, and played with success in tragedy and comedy, but especially as Falstaff. In 1741 he returned to Dublin for a short time, but again appeared in London, performing in 1746 with Garrick at Covent Garden in the Fair Penitent, Soon afterwards he retired to Bath, only once more appearing in 1749, 3-s Coriolanus in Thomson's posthumous tragedy. Quin was a noted bon vivant and wit ; and was employed to instruct George III. in elocution. When he heard how well the King delivered his first speech, he exclaimed, " I taught the boy." Died at Bath. Garrick wrote the epitaph for his monument in Bath Abbey. Head, life-size, to left ; wig ; unfinished. Canvas 25J x 20 in. By T. Gainsborough, R.A. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Buckingham Palace). 241. Lady Hamilton (1761 .?-i8i5). Born in humble life ; the daughter of Henry Lyon of Nesse, in the parish of Great Neston, Cheshire ; christened Amy, but after various changes finally adopted the name of Emma ; was for a time a servant-girl at Hawarden, came to London in 1777, and was exhibited by Dr. Graham, a noted quack, as the Goddess Hygieia ; but her beauty and the exquisite grace of her figure caused her to become a favourite sitter to artists, Romney being specially devoted to her. In 1791 she was married to Sir William Hamilton, and on her arrival at Naples obtained great influence with the court there, and was the object of Lord Nelson's passionate attachment. She died in comparative neglect near Calais. Romney alone is said to have painted twenty-three portraits of her ; and she also sat to Reynolds, Hoppner, and Lawrence in England, and to numerous artists in Italy. Half-length, life-size, to left, head facing, leaning on a table, her head resting on her crossed hands, white dress and scarf tied round her head. Canvas 23 x 19^ in. G 2 84 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gtielph. This is the first portrait done by Romney of Lady Hamilton. He was on a visit to Ickwell Bury to paint the then Mrs. Harvey's portrait, saw the beautiful girl, who was a servant in the house, and was so struck with her, that he at once asked for permission to make this likeness. 242. Richard Cosway, R.A. (1741-1821). Miniature painter. Born at Tiverton ; studied in London under Hudson, the former instructor of Sir Joshua Reynolds ; soon became a fashionable artist, and is specially known by his miniatures and tinted pencil drawings. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1771. Small three-quarter length, to right, black coat and wig, in left hand, palette and brushes. Canvas 17 X IS in. By Himself. Lent by The Viscount Powerscourt, K.P. 243. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792). The greatest of English portrait-painters. Born at Plympton in Devon, was placed under Hudson, with whom he studied for two years. In 1749 he made the acquaintance of Captain Keppel, in whose ship he went to the Mediterranean and visited Italy, where he stayed, studying the old masters till 1753, and on his return became the leading portrait painter of his day. He was the first President of the Royal Academy, founded in 1768, and in that capacity delivered his well-known discourses. He continued to exercise his profession in full vigour till 1790, when his eyesight suddenly failed. Died at his house in Leicester Fields, and was buried in St. Paul's. He was the intimate friend of Burke, Goldsmith and Johnson, and other eminent men, and in conjunction with the last established " The Club " which still exists. Head to left. Canvas 14 x 12 in. 244. Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bart. (1646-1723). Portrait-painter. Born at Liibeck ; studied painting under various masters ; visited Italy in 1672, and coming to London in 1675 was appointed portrait-painter to Charles II., and subsequently held the same office under James II., William III., Anne, and George I. He was made a baronet in 17 15, and died October 27, 1723, having amassed a large fortune. Kneller painted the Beauties at Hampton Court for William III., also the portraits of the forty-eight members of the Kit-Cat Club, of ten Sovereigns, including Louis XIV., Peter the Great, and Charles II. of Spain, and almost every notable person in England in his time. By G. RoMNEY. Lent by Mrs. Harvey, of Ickwell Bury. Lent by Horace N. Pym, Esq. SOUTH GALLERY.] Portraits, 85 Small half-length, to right, head turned to left, brown coat, puce mantle, and wig ; over left shoulder gold chain with badge ; right hand pointing ; left holds his mantle ; building in the background. Canvas lyi X 14 in. This portrait was presented by the painter to Jacob Tonson. It belongs to the " Kitcat " series ; but it differs from the other portraits in being smaller in size, a mark of deference shown by the painter who was not a member of the club but only their acknowledged artist. By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by W. R. Baker, Esq. 245. Mrs. Siddons as "The Tragic Muse" (1774-1831). Celebrated actress. Daughter of Roger Kemble, the manager of an itinerant company ; was born at Brecon in South Wales ; commenced her theatrical career as a vocalist ; and in her eighteenth year married Mr. Siddons, a young actor. In 1775 she appeared in London as Portia in The Merchant of Venice^ when Garrick was the Shylock, but she did not display much genius. Time, with study and practice, matured her powers, and when she re-appeared at Drury Lane in 1782, as Isabella in the Fata/ Marriage, her success was complete, and from that time forward her theatrical career was one continued triumph. Her principal characters were Lady Macbeth, Constance in King John, Queen Catherine and Lady Randolph in Home's tragedy of Douglas. She retired from the stage in 181 2, and died in London in 1831. Besides Reynolds, there are portraits of Mrs. Siddons by Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Sir WiUiam Beechy. Full length, life-size, seated on a throne that appears to be raised above the clouds, in an attitude of inspired ecstasy ; brown dress with white sleeves ; massive fine necklace. Behind her in the shadowy background stand two mutes, the one holding the bowl, the other the dagger, the insignia of tragedy. Canvas 94 X 58 in. Though Reynolds' pocket-book for 1783 is lost, the sittings which Mrs. Siddons gave for this picture began during the autumn of 1783, and continued into the spring of 1784, in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Academy. In the quality of colour, the stateliness of the action and the loftiness of the expression, the picture ranks amongst the finest of this master. It has been supposed that the conception of this work was suggested by Michael Angelo's Isaiah. Mrs. Siddons, however, told Mr. Phillips " that it was the production of pure accident. Sir Joshua had begun the head and figure in a different view ; but while he was occupied in the prepa- ration of some colour she changed her position to look at a picture hanging on the wall of the room. When he again looked at her, 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." According to Mrs. Jameson, Mrs. Siddons used to describe Sir Joshua as taking her by the hand, and leading her up to his platform with the words " Ascend your undisputed throne, bestow on me some idea of the Tragic Muse." " On which," she said, " I walked up the steps and seated myself in the attitude in which the Tragic Muse now appears." Another charming anecdote is related of this picture. Sir Joshua had painted his name in the gold border of the drapery. Mrs. Siddons on examining the picture near, perceived it, and made the remark to Sir 86 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. tht oppon^nitf frfo^ild ^^^^^^^^^ courtesy,"! could not lose the honour garment " ^ attorded me of going down to posterity on the hem of your By SIR J. REYNOLDS, P.R.A. Lent by The DuKE OF Westminster, K.G. 246. Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley as "Elfrida" (1751-1824). actrtsT'Hir'^^x^rTre'bfau'Jlfn'd'^h'^""'..'^^^'""'' "^^^^'"^ ^^'^ P°P"1- ^ '^^gic admiration^ an?serred Sr tL filt nV™'^' nature of her acting attracted universal Siddons. She left the sta^e n ,7Sn P, f^'".^'''r,?r^?'='°u" "'^ appearance of Mrs. ^iXislZ"'' '° '"'^ head and shoulders. Canvas By SIR J. Reynolds, P.R.A. Lent by The Duke of Westminster, K.G. 247. David Garrick (1716-1779). at ISLId uSer^'orlohLo?;;;^ who" ^' "^^t^"' ^^^'"^^^ '^'S, was educated arrived with onlv a fpw ? ^?"'' '736, he set out for London, where both and in i;!' Tal hrS/ at'^In^''' S^'^T "^^"i}^^ "^e stage as 'a profession, appeared for the first time on ?hrT ' '\''^e<^'^y ?f Oroonoio. In the same year he Richard T I T P^^I i the London stage at the Goodman's Fields Theatre as equal as an actor rn^wm^har '" "-TS? " ^"""^ neverhad 'ht^ him in Dubhn were so ereat tonrod -i" the crowds that gathered to see In 1747 he beclme io^nf n»lr, J ^r 4 ''^ ^t" ^P'^em-c, called in jest " the Garrick fever." of GaSck wereliie^^^^^^^^^^ ^T'- ^°>e,P^'«"'^« '773. The powers comedy, or the broades? force and h. ''"f''^'" the sublimest tragedy, the most refined Macbeth and Abel Drn^.^.. 1 P^"' '^^'"^ M^mt^A the greatest celebrity, .779, and wasti?[„"^^^:^trin3tlrYb"l;PP°^''^ ^'^^ J-"-^ Half-length, life-size, to left, brown coat and cloak. Canvas 30 x 20 in. BZltr\ll^L^A^hf^(^ the principal character in Jonson's Every Man in his pictureTA tht nn«!i^^ ^ [J"H '751 and 1766. There is a repetition of this C R Fox to Shorn ° k"'- f™-" collection of the late General portaiture is well ; 1 7l'^^cLa.rriage at Gretna Green. Plaque. 1471. Heart-in-Hand. Sign of Fleet Marriage. 1472. Beckford. Nicholas Wood. 1473. John Wilkes. Statuette. 1474. Tom Payne. Portrait or Mug. 1475. Bellingham Portrait. Mug 1476. Woodward, the Actor. Chelsea. 2o8 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1477. Hannah More. Statuette. Derby Biscuit. 1478. William Wilberforce. Statuette. Derby Biscuit. 1479. Statuette of Pillion, showing method of riding. Whealdon ware. 1480. Lord Anson. Worcester Mug. 1481. Death of Perceval. Mug. 1482. General Wolfe. Jug. 1483. Sir Sidney Smith. Mug. 1484. Cup of Liverpool Merchants with Flags. 1485. Kean as ''Richard IIL" Staffordshire. 1486. William Pitt. Statuette. Derby Biscuit. 1487. Charles James Fox. Statuette. Derby Biscuit. 1488. First Railway Journey. Mug. 1489. Admiral Vernon. British Glory. Carved basin. ELEVEN LIVERPOOL TRANSFER TILES, AS FOLLOWS:— 1490. Mrs. Lewis as " Hippolitus." 1491. Mrs. Lesingham as " Ophelia." 1492. Mrs. Yates as " Lady Townley." 1493. Miss P. Hopkins as " Lavinia." 1494. Woodward as " Razor." 1495. Mrs. Yates as " Jane Shore." CENTRAL HALL.] China and Relics. 209 1496. Mrs. Barry as "Athenais." 1497. Mrs. Hartley as " Imoinda." 1498. Mrs. Abington as " Estafinia." 1499. Lewis as " Douglas." 1500. Macklin as "Shylock." CASE W-Central Hall. CHINA. 1501. Vase and Cover, Chelsea Porcelain, painted with Chinese figures and flowers on gold ground, and bands of " claret " colour ; scroll handles ; English, late Eighteenth Century. Lent by R. C. Naylor, Esq. 1502. Pair of Crown Derby Pot-Pourri Vases on Tripod Base, with ornaments in form of ram's horns, very richly gilt. Lent by J. H. Fitzhenry, Esq. 1503. Twenty-seven Chessmen, by Wedgwood, after designs by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1504. Six Plates in cream-coloured ware. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1505. Tea-Pot, Sugar Basin, and Cream Jug, of Wedgwood ware {Rosso Antique), mounted in silver. Formerly belonged to Queen Adelaide. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1506. Pair of Chelsea Plates, with gros blue borders. Lent by ISAAC Falcke, Esq. 1507. Silver-gilt Melon-shaped Teapot, Sugar Basin, and Cream Jug, chased with scrolls, medallions, and cupids ; designs attributed to Flaxman. Hall-mark 1789. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1508. Vase of Unglazed Yellow Wedgwood Ware. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. P 2 lO Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1510. Vase in Basalt, with classical figures, en grisaille. By Wedgwood. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1511. Wilkes's Teapot. Lent by T. Ashby Sterry, Esq. 1512. Four Pieces of a Blue Jasper Tea Service, consisting of a tea-pot, basin, saucer, and milk-jug, with scroll decoration and borders in white relief with the monogram of G. E. Made by Josiah Wedgwood. Lent by W. JOHNSTON STUART, Esq. 1514. Sauce Boat and Two Plates of Wedgwood Ware. Lent by G. Harry Wallis, Esq. 1515. Four Playing Cards, style of Hogarth. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1516. Pack of Playing Cards, with musical compositions, tei^ip. George II. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1517. Pack of Playing Cards, in commemoration of the South Sea Bubble, 1720. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1518. Pack of Playing Cards, with representations of the Kings and Queens of England from the ancient British Kings to George III. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1519. Pack of Playing Cards, humorous subjects, dated 1780. By Cowell. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1520. Pack of Playing Cards, 1828. By Olivette. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1521. Pack of Playing Cards, with emblematical subjects, 1775. By S. Hooper. . Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq CENTRAL HALL.] China and Relics. 211 1522. Two Bristol Cups and Saucers, made by Richard Champion, the proprietor, and presented to the wife of Edmund Burke, wiih coat of arms of Burke and his wife^ and an inscription dedicating them by Champion. Lent by W. S. Salting, Esq. 1523. Chelsea Group of Boy and Girl Musicians with Performing Dogs in an Arbour of White Jessamine, gold anchor mark. Lent by W. S. Salting, Esq. THE SCREEN (Central Hall). TABLETS BY WEDGWOOD IN JASPER WARE, LENT BY ISAAC FALCKE, ESQ. 1524. Endymion and Dog on Mount Patmos, green ground, white figures. This tablet and the following to No. 1532 are marked Wedgwood." 1525. The Triform Goddess, Luna, Diana, and Hecate, with boar's head. 1526. Priam Begging for the Body of Hector from Achilles, green ground, white figures. 1527. Achilles with the Daughter of Lycomedes, black ground, white figures. 1528. Mercury Uniting the Hands of England and France, in china and blue-ball clay. Original model signed by Flaxman. 1529. Peace Preventing Mars from Opening the Gates of the Temple of Janus, in china and blue-ball clay. Original model signed by Flaxman. 1530. The Apotheosis of Homer, blue ground, white figures. 1531. Aesculapius and Hygeia, blue ground, white figures. 1532. Three Warriors and a Horse, blue ground, white figures. 1533 Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, blue and white jasper. P 2 212 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1534. Portrait of Homer, blue and white, trial piece. 1635 Portrait of Dr. Joseph Priestley, lapis-lazuli ground, trial piece. 1536. Portrait of John Flaxman, in wax. 1537. Portrait of Mrs. Flaxman, in wax. 1538. Two Parts of the Border of a Salver, in bronze ; made for George IV. ; designed by Thomas Stothard. 1539. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, blue and white jasper. Lent by G. R. Harding, Esq. A SERIES OE PORTRAITS MADE BY JOSIAH WEDGWOOD, AFTER DESIGNS BY FLAXMAN, BACON, HACK WOOD, AND OTHER SCULPTORS. LENT BY J. LVMSDEN PROPERT, ESQ., M.D, 1540. John Flaxman, R.A., 175 5- 1826, in terra-cotta, modelled by himself. 1541. Louis, Duke of Orleans, 1703-17 52. 1542. Prince William Henry, afterwards William IV., 1765-1837. 1543. Sir I^rederick William Herschel, Astronomer, 1738-1822. 1544. George Washington, 1732-1799, and Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790. 1545. William L, King of the Netherlands, his Queen and Family. (5 portraits on one plaque.) 1546. Admiral Lord Howe, 1725-1799- 1547. Admiral Lord St. Vincent, 17 34- 1823. CENTRAL HALL.] China and Relics. 213 1548. Admiral Lord Duncan, 1731-1804. 1549. Admiral Lord Nelson, 1758-1805. 1550. Prince Edward of Brunswick. 1551. Cardinal Poniatowski. 1552. Lady Eleanor Auckland, d. 181 8. 1553. William Pitt, Statesman, 1 759-1 806. 1554. William, Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, 1705-1793- 1555. Dr. Erasmus Darwin, Physician, 1731-1802. 1556. Dr. Samuel Johnson, Writer, 1709-1784. 1557. George IV. as Prince Regent, 1762- 1830. 1558. Maria L, Queen of Portugal. 1559. Sir William Hamilton, Diplomatist, 1730-1803. 1560. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., 1723-1792. 1561. Catherine I L, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. (The only portrait known of this colour.) 1562. Thomas Pitt, Lord Camelford, 1737- 1793. 1563. Mr. Meerman, a friend of Wedgwood. 1564. Ferdinand 1., King of the Sicilies, 1751-1793. 1565. Charlotte Augusta, Princess Royal, daughter of George III., 1766- 1828. 1566. Edgar Bourne, one of Wedgwood's workmen ; modelled by Flaxman. 1567. Josiah Wedgwood, 1730-1795. Coloured and glazed pottery, inscribed ''Josiah Wedgwood, Esquire, Etruria, Potter." 214 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gtielph. 1568. Wills, Earl of Hillsborough, afterwards Marquess of Downshire, Statesman, d. 1793. 1569. Charles, ist Marquess of Cornwallis, Governor-General of India, 1738-1805. 1570. Warren Hastings, Governor of India, 1733- 181 8. 1571. Admiral Viscount Hood, 1724-1816. 1572. Marquess of Stafford, 172 i- 1803. 1573. J. P. Elers, early Staffordshire potter. 1574. Louis XVI. of France, 1754-1793. 1575. Admiral Keppel, 1725- 1786. 1576. Dr. Joseph Black, Chemist, 1725-1786. 1577. John Gasper Christian Lavater, Swiss Physiognomist, 1741-1801. 1578. Edwin Law, ist Earl of Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice, 1748- 181 8 ? 1579. Jonas Hanway, Traveller, 1712-1786 ; he is said to have introduced umbrellas into England. 1580. General G. A. Elliot, Lord Heathfield, Defender of Gibraltar, 1718-1790. 1581. Alexander Adam, LL.D., Antiquary, 1741-1809. 1582. Governor Franklin, 17 1-1813. 1583. W. T. Franklin, son of Governor Franklin. 1584. SiLVER-GiLT Palette, a prize awarded by the Society of Arts to John Flaxman, aged II years and 5 months, for a model in clay," Class 117 ; Anno 1767." With Wedgwood scroll ornament CENTRAL HALL.] China and Relics. 1585. Herman Boerhave, Dutch physician, 1668-1738. 1586. Joseph IL, Emperor, 1741-1790. 1587. Portrait of a Gentleman. 1588. Marie Antoinette, 1755-1793. 1589. Frederick Augustus IL of Poland, 1733-1763- 1590. Portrait of a Gentleman. 1591. George IV. as Regent, 1762-1830. 1592. Admiral, Viscount Keppel, 1725-1786. 1593. Louis, Prince de Conde, 1756- 1830. 1594. Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790. The following four frames containing thirty-six portraits were mounted in a cabinet and presented by Wedgwood and Bently to George Engleheart, miniature-painter, in return for work done by him for the firm. Some of the portraits are not of the Hanover period ; these have been included in order not to disturb the arrangement. LENT BY J. LUMSDEN PROPERT, ESQ., M.D. 15^5.— Frame I. 1. John Reinhold Forster, botanist, 1729-1798 (in centre). 2. Dr. Joseph Priestley, scientist, 1733-1804. 3. Charles von Linn/Eus, botanist, 1707-1778 4. Rev. J. Wray, naturalist, 1628-1705. 5. Dr. Daniel Charles Solander, botanist, 1736-1782. 6. Captain James Cook, navigator, 1728 1779. 7. Thomas Pennant, naturalist, 1740-1790. 8. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., naturahst, 1743- 1820. 9. Galileo Galilei, astronomer, 1564-1642. 15d6.— Frame II. 1. Sir Hans Sloane, naturalist, 1660- 17 52. 2. William Shakespeare, dramatist, 1564- 16 16. 3. Dr. Henry Pemberton, physician, 1694-1771. 2l6 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 4. David Garrick, actor, 1716-1779. 5. Charles Pratt, ist Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor, 171 3- 1794. 6. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, statesman, 1708-1778. 7. Sir Isaac Newton, scientist, 1642-1727. 8. John Locke, philosopher, 1632- 1704. 9. James Wyatt, architect, 1 743-1 81 3. Frame III. 1. Queen Elizabeth, 1558-1603 (in centre). 2. Catherine IL, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. 3. Gustavus IIL, King of Sweden, 1771-1792. 4. George IIL, 1760-1820. 5. Queen Charlotte, 1744-1818. 6. Charles IV., King of Spain, 1788-1808. 7. The Emperor of Germany. 8. Henry IV., King of France, 1589-1610. 9. Maximilien de Bethune, Dug de Sully, French Minister, i56o-]64i. 1598.— ir^w^ IV. 1. William Penn, 1644-1718 (in centre). 2. George Edwards, naturalist, 1693-1773. 3. CONYERS MiDDLETON, scholar, 1683-I750. 4. Voltaire, French author, 1694- 1778. 5. Pope Pius VI., 1717-1799. 6. Sir William Hamilton, diplomatist, 1730-1803. 7. Richard Mead, physician, 167 3-1754. 8. Dr. Samuel P. Woodward, geologist, 1665- 1728. 9. Algernon Sidney, parliamentarian, 161 7-1683. 1598a. George II. Bust. Chelsea ware. Lent by G. R. Harding, Esq. 1598b. George II. Equestrian statuette in bronze. Lent by A. MORSON, Esq. CENTRAL HALL.J China and Relics. 217 CASE X.-Central Hall. ARMS, ETC. 1599. Four Claymore Swords and Two Sporrans, from the field of CuUoden. Lent by Mrs. Harvey, of Ickwell-Bury. 1600. Peninsular Gold Gross. Lent by The Royal United Service Institution. 1601. Captain Cook's Sword. Lent by The Royal United Service Institution. 1602. General Wolfe's Sword. Lent by The Royal United Service Institution. 1603. Sash with which Sir John Moore was lowered into his grave. Lent by The Royal United Service Institution. 1604. Sword of William IV. used by him when a naval officer. Lent by The Royal United Service Institution. 1605. Gold Medal, struck in 1745 to commemorate the Battle of Culloden. Given to General Wren, from whom it has descended to the present owner. Lent by Major Herbert Young. 1606. The Hanger with which Lord Byron slew Mr. Chaworth. On Saturday, 26th January, 1765, a quarrel took place at the "Star and Garter" tavern in Pall Mall between William, 5th Lord Byron, and Mr. Chaworth of Nottingham- shire. The ground of the dispute was concerning the preservation of game. A duel ensued in a private room in the hotel, and Lord Byron mortally wounded his adversary. For this Lord Byron was tried by his peers, and found guilty of manslaughter, but claiming benefit of clergy, he was discharged on payment of a fine. The sword was given by the poet to Mr. Dearden, of Rochdale, by whose son it was bequeathed to the present owner. The blade is 24 inches long, and a small pistol is attached to the side, with the trigger within the sword guard. Lent by The Rev. T. E. Waldy. 1607. Pistol carried by William, Duke of Cumberland, at the Battle of Culloden. It was left by the Duke at Moy Hall, the castle of the Macintosh, chief of the clan Macintosh, where the Duke stayed after the battle. The pistol, which is of Itahan work, is ornamented with a silver plate bearing the royal crest. Lent by Lieut-Col. R, Rintoul. 2 1 8 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1608. Fragment of King's Colour of the S7th Foot. Lent by Capt. W. R. Inglis. 1609. Remains of Regimental Colour of the 57TH Foot. These colours were carried in the Peninsula from the time that the 57th joined the army under Sir Arthur Wellesley in 1809 until the end of the war, and were present at all the principal engagements from Albuhera to Nive. At Albuhera the regiment and its colours suffered considerably ; early in the day the staff of the King's colour was broken by a shot, and it was subsequently pierced by seventeen shots, whilst the regimental colour received twenty-two. The colours were presented to Colonel (afterwards Lieut.- General Sir Wm.) Inglis when full colonel of the regiment, from whom they came to * the present owner, his grandson. Lent by Capt. W. R. Inglis. 1610. Gorget worn by Infantry Officers on Duty up to 1830. Lent by Harry Dillon, Esq. 1611. Parasol of green silk, which belonged to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and given to her by the servants on her birthday. Lent by John Cleland, Esq., of Stormont. 1611a. Pair of Pistols, flint locks, silver mounted. Lent by J. E. Collingwood, Esq. 1612. Case of Firearms, comprising a brace of pistols and a gun. Given by Empress Catherine o Russia to the Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox. Lent by The Earl of Ilchester. 1612a. Pistol with which Bellingham shot the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval in the Lobby of the House of Commons, May 11, 18 12. Lent by The Earl of Egmont. 16121). Sketch by Napoleon I. of his Guns, with certificate. Lent by Henry H. P. Cotton, Esq. 1612c. Six Yeomanry Flags, temp. George III. Lent by I. Spielman, Esq. CENTRAL HALL.] Sculpture. 219 SCULPTURE (North Gallery). 1613. Marble Bust of Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby, as " Thall\," 1759-1829. By The HON. Mrs. SEYMOUR Damer. Lent by Mrs. Campbell Johnston. 1614. Marble Bust of Admiral Viscount Nelson, made at Vienna in 1801. By Franz Thallor and Matthias Ran son. It was purchased by Mr. Herbert Agar of Admiral Small who had it from Lady Hamilton, It was given by Mr. Agar to the present owner. Lent by The Earl Nelson. 1615. Marble Bust, life-size, of the Duke of Wellington. By Geoghegan. Lent by The Rev. T. E. Waldy. 1616. Bust of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K.G. It was executed by order of the Corporation in 18 14. By Peter Turnerelli. Lent by The Corporation of the City of London. SCULPTURE (Central Hall). 1617. " Maternal Love" ; model by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1618. "The Supplicant" ; model by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1619. Illustration from the Lord's Prayer, " Lead us not into Temptation" ; model by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1620. Illustration from the Lord's Prayer, " But Deliver us from Evil" ; mode by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1621. Pandora conveyed to Earth by Mercury ; model by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1622. " The Golden Age " ; model by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 220 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1622a. A Classical Composition ; model by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1623. Bust of Mercury in basalt, by Flaxman. Lent by Isaac Falcke, Esq. 1624. Medallion, in plaster, of John Keats, 1796-1820; executed at Rome after his death. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir C. Wentworth Dilke, Bart. FURNITURE, ETC. (Central Hall). 1625. Cabinet, or Console Table, which belonged to Mrs. FitzHerbert, containing twenty-nine miniatures of naval and other celebrities, temp. George III. and IV. Also a large miniature of George IV., and another of Her Majesty the Queen, aged eleven years, by Mrs. Ince, and wax medallions of George III., Pitt, and Fox by Miss Andras. Lent by The Baron de Worms. 1626. The Library Chair which belonged to George IV., and which he always used. Lent by John Cleland, Esq., of Stormont. 1627. Dr. Johnson's Writing Desk. Lent by The Master and Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford. 1628. Handel's Harpsichord. This is a single keyboard harpsichord. Externally it is covered with paper much discoloured, but showing a delicate pattern. Above the keyboard is inscribed the maker's name, '^Andreas Rukers, 1640." On the inside of the lid are the following inscriptions in Roman characters : " Concordia Musis arnica" and " Musica letitice comes medicina dolorum" The interior of the instrument is decorated with flowers and birds in oil- painting. This instrument was given by Dr. Burney, the author of the History of Music^ to his friend, the Rev. Thomas Twining, Rector of St. Mary's, Colchester, the " Country Clergy- man of the Eighteenth Century," himself a musician. It has always remained in the possession of the Twining family, and with it the tradition has been handed down that it was used by Handel in the composition of his works. Lent by Mrs. A. B. Donaldson. 1629. Chair, used by Lord Nelson on board the Victory. The following account of this chair dated 7th December, 1883, is given by Mr. Henry Thompson, of Andover, from whom it came to its present owner : " It was given by the CENTRAL HALL.] Furniture, etc. 221 late Captain Thomas Wm. Hardy to my aunt, Isabella Thompson, and landed out of the Victory in 1805, after Trafalgar, and taken to my grandfather's house in Chapel Row,Portsea. After various removals it was given by my aunt to me. I would add that my aunt once told Captain Hardy that he kept the Admiral's chair and gave her the one he used himself, upon which Sir Thomas assured her, and with a nautical oath confirmed ' that he'd be d .... d if that was not the Admiral's chair, its fellow in which he himself sat was broke in clearing the ship for action.' It has never been repaired but only loosely covered, and is to be given at my decease to the present Earl Nelson or his heirs." (Signed) Henry Thompson. In the right arm a piece has been removed and stuffed for the stump to lean upon. Lent by The Earl Nelson. 1630. Coronation Chair and Stool of George I. Lent by The Count Kielmansegg. 1631. Chair worked by the Electress Sophia of Hanover, mother of George I. Lent by The Count Kielmansegg. 1632. A Barometer, which belonged to George III. On a paper pasted on to the back is written, " This barometer was the property of his late Majesty King George the third, and hung in the Queen's dressing-room at Weymouth and was purchased for me in the sale which took place there on Saturday, the 15th July, 1820." (Signed) Thos. Hardwick. Thomas Hardwick was the well-known architect, and father of Philip Hardwick, R.A. The barometer came into the possession of the present owner through Mr. P. C. Hardwick, grandson of Thomas Hardwick. Lent by S.J. NiCHOLL, Esq, 1633. A Screen, with Portraits of George III., Queen Charlotte and Family, and Portrait of George IV. as Prince of Wales, after Gainsborough. Lent by Lady Charlotte Schreiber. 1633.* A Chinese Work-table with the crown and initials of Queen Adelaide. Lent by MiSS Reid. 222 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. AUTOGRAPHS, ETC. CASE AA— Balcony. ROYAL LETTERS, ETC. 1634. Letter from Sophia, Electress of Hanover, Countess von Bentheim. Dated Hanover, Jan., 1693. Holograph. French. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1634a. Letter from Sophia, Electress of Hanover, to Johann Adolf, Freiherr von Kielmans-Egg. Dated Liitzenburg, 29 Sept. 1703. Autograph signature. German. Lent by The Count Kielmansegg. 1635. Letter from Ernest Augustus, Bishop of Osnaburg, afterwards Elector of Hanover, Father of George L, and George William of Brunswick Lune- BERG, afterwards Duke of Zelle, father-in-law of George L, to Count , requesting permission for three regiments sent to aid the Venetians in Candia to pass thn German. pass through his dominions. Dated Nov., 1668. Autograph signatures Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1636. Letter from John Frederick of Brunswick-Luneburg, Duke of Calenburg, Uncle of George L, to Rudolf Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, respecting the payment of the interest of 6000 reichsthalers, borrowed by the town of Brunswick. Dated Hanover, 29 Nov., 1672. Autograph Signature. Gernian. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1637. Draft in French of the first Speech of George L at the opening of Parliament, with corrections and alterations. The speech comments in general terms on, the state of affairs, the dangers to be apprehended from " le Pretendant" {i.e. King James IIL), and other similar matters, the only definite suggestions being a demand for increased revenues for himself and his son. March, 17 if. With two translations into English.- Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1638. Letter from George Louis, Elector of Hanover, afterwards George L, to the Duke of Leeds, thanking him for his professions of attachment, and referring to the visit of Lord Danby and his brother to Hanover. Dated Hanover, 22 Dec, 17 10. Autograph signatta-e. Fre?ich. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] AlUographs, Etc. 223 1639. Letter from George L to , with congratulations for the New Year. Dated St. James's, Jan., 17 15. Autograph sigiiatuj'e. Gernian. lo Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1640. Letter from George Augustus, Electoral Prince of Hanover, afterwards George IL, to a lady, with expressions of civility and respect. Dated du Camp de Werwick, 27 July [1710 i*]. Holograph. French. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1641. Warrant under Sign Manual of George IL for the payment to John Scrope of ^8000 " for our secret service, without account." Countersigned " H. Pelham " and "G. Lyttelton." Dated Kensington, 24 May, 1751. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1642. Letter from Caroline of Anspach, wife of George IL, to the Duchess of Dorset [Elizabeth, wife of Lionel, ist Duke], referring to the appointment of the Countess of Suffolk [Henrietta, wife of Charles, 9th Earl], as Mistress of the Robes. Dated Hampton Court, 29 June [1730 ?] Holograph. French. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1643. Letter from Frederick, Prince of Wales, to Frederick, Duke of Saxe Gotha, with New Year's congratulations. Dated Leicester House, 18 Jan., 1746. Autograph signature. German. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1644. Letter from Augusta of Saxe Gotha, Princess of Wales, mother of George IIL, to her brother Frederick, Duke of Saxe Gotha, with New Year's congratu- lations. Dated "Pell Mell House," 12 Jan., 1742. Autograph signature. German. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1645. Letter from William- Henry, Duke of Gloucester, son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, to Mr. Perigeaux, banker, Paris. Dated Lyons, May 30, 1785. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1646. Letter from William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland '(known as the Butcher ") containing New Year's congratulations. Dated St. James s- 29 Dec, 1747. Autograph signature. Gcrnuui. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 224 Exhibition of the Royal Hotise of Gtielph. 1847. List of the Names of the Persons chosen by Anne, Princess of Orange daughter of George II., " Omme te dienen als scheepenen van de Dorpen en Heerlykheeden van Ginneken en Bavel voor den Jaare 1757." Dated "Op ons^ Hof d'Orange Zaal," 5 Sept., 1757. Autograph signature. Dutch. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1648. Letter from Frederick V., King of Denmark, husband of Princess Louisa, daughter of George II., to Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, with New Year's congratulations. Dated Christiansburg, Copenhagen, 6 Jan. 1749. Autograph, signature. Germajt. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1649. Letter from Christian VII., King of Denmark, son of Frederick V. and Louisa, daughter of George II., to Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Gotha. Copenhagen, 26 Mar., 1770. Autograph signature. German. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1649a. Letter from Sophia Charlotte, Queen of Prussia, sister of George I., to Johann Adolf, Freiherr von Kielmans-Egg. Dated Liitzenburg, 3 Oct., 1703. Autograph signature and postscript. German. Lent by The Count Kielmansegg. CASE BB. ROYAL LETTERS. ETC. 1650. Letter from George III. to Lord Ashburton, signifying that he had taken the bitter potion of appointing the seven Ministers named by the Duke of Portland." These seven were the Duke of Portland, C. J. Fox, and Lords Stormont, Carlisle, Keppel, North, and John Cavendish, and formed the " Coalition Ministry." Dated Queen's House, 2 April, 1783. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1651. Letter from George III. to the Queen of Sweden respecting the recall of his Minister. Dated St. James's, 23 Dec, 1808. With autograph signature^ written after the King had become blind. French. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1652. Order by George III. for a Court Martial on Thomas Williams, "Private Soldier in our Shropshire Regiment of Militia," for desertion. Dated St. James's, 7 July, 1809. Signed by the King and countersigned by the Earl of Liverpool. Lent by A. Keily, Esq. 1653. Collection of Letters from George III., Edward Duke of York, William Henry Duke of Gloucester, Princess Sophia, and others, to Earl Harcourt. The letters of George III. begin in 175 1. Mostly holograph. Lent by E. W. Harcourt, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 225 1654. Collection of Letters from Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of George IIL, to Earl and Countess Harcourt, 1769-1817. Holograph. Lent by E. W. Harcourt, Esq. 1655. Letter from Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of George IIL Dated St. James's, 14 Jan. 1766. Autograph signature. German. Lent by G. MiLNER Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1656. Letter from Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of George IIL, to Richard Hurd, Bishop of Lichfield (afterwards of Worcester). The letter begins — " My Lord, it will be difficult to decide whose conduct deserves the most to be criticised, my eldest daughter's in sending you a present of a young lady, or mine in encouraging her to do so," and continues in the same strain. Dated Queen's House, 26 January, 1781. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1657. Letter from Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. wife of George III., to Lady Charlotte , containing congratulations and good wishes on her marriage. The letter ends, " Receive the Blessing of yr affectionnate Queens Charlotte." Dated Windsor, 28 Mar., 1799. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1658. Letter from Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, to the Rev. Thomas Morgan, telling him that he has presented his letter to Lord Liverpool. Dated Calais, Aug. 16, 1820. Holograph. Lent by A. Keily, Esq. 1659. Letter from Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, son of George III. forwarding a letter received by the Duke of Kent respecting a nephew of the Master of the Rolls. Dated Kensington Palace, Sep. 12, 181 2. Holoi^raph. Lent by G. MiLNER GiBSON Cullum, Esq. 1660. Letter from Edward, Duke of Kent, to Major-General Alured Clarke : " The information you give me that His Majesty had said he would consent to my returning to England very soon is by much the most comfortable news I have received for many years Every account we have from the States confirn s the idea that the French have it seriously in contemplation to attack us here this summer. Our fortifications are in a ruinous state, our garrison excessively weak, and I am confident if we were to be attacked by any serious force, we should be able to give a very poor account of ourselves." Dated Halifax, May 26, 1795, Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. Q 226 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gttelph. 1661. Letter from Edward, Duke of Kent, to the Earl of Buchan respecting the poUtical situation of the day. Dated Kensington Palace, i Dec, 1810. Lent by A. Keily, Esq. 1662. Letter from Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover, to William Battini. He says, " Pray does Lady A intend to recriminate ? is she become mad } Otherwise I do not understand what she means by re- taining any lawyer." Dated St. James, Friday afternoon. Holograph. Lent by Alfred MORRISON, Esq. 1663. Letter from Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover, declining an invitation to dinner on the grounds that he cannot absent himself from headquarters " for fear of anything particular occurring which might demand an immediate answer." Dated Bristol, 8 Sept., 181 3. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1664. Letter from Frederick, Duke of York, to Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, thanking him in the King's name for his letter, and expressing his Majesty's pleasure at finding the Bishop's sentiments coincided with his own on the question of the emancipation of the Catholics. Dated Horse Guards, March 9, 1 801. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1665. Letter of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, as Chancellor of Cam- bridge, on University matters. Dated Croome, Dec. 13th, 1823. Autograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1666. Letter of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, to the Rev. George Vanburgh. Dated Bagshot Park, June 19, 1834. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1667. Letter from Princess Amelia, the youngest daughter of George II L, to her mother. Queen Charlotte. Undated. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1668. Letter from Princess Augusta Sophia, daughter of George III., to General Charles FitzRoy, husband of her sister Amelia. Undated. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1669. Letter from Charlotte, Duchess (afterwards Queen) of Wurtemberg, daughter of George III., to Frederick, Duke of York, begging him to use his influence to obtain for the Duke of Wiirtemberg the "indemnifications for the BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 227 severe losses he had suffered during the war," which according to the treaty con- cluded with the Duke for his troops, Great Britain promised to obtain for him. Dated Louisbourg, 22 May, 1802. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1670. Letter from Charlotte, Queen of Wurtemberg, eldest daughter of George III., to her brother, George IV., expressing her sorrow at not seeing him before leaving England. Dated St. James's Palace, October 7, 1829. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1671. Letter of Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg, daughter of George III. Dated Hanover, Jan. 11, 1830. Holograph. Lent by G. MiLNER GiBSON CuLLUM, Esq. 1672. Letter from Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, daughter of George III., to Mrs. Nepean (Anne, daughter of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, and wife of the Rev. E. Nepean, Incumbent of Grosvenor Chapel), inviting her and her husband to dinner, 'though I know that on Thursday is the day the family meet at your Father's." \Circ. 1850.] Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1673. Letter from Princess Sophia, daughter of George III., to her father, written when a child, in French. Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1674. Letter from Princess Sophia, daughter of George III., to Mr. Bridge, jeweller, respecting some alterations to be made in some jewellery and the price of a pair of pearl bracelets. Dated Tuesday morning, April 17. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1675. " Address to the Deity," copied out by George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., written in copy-book hand at the age of twelve. Dated 1774. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1676. Letter from George IV,, which begins, "You may easily imagine, warm and sincere as my affections are towards you, I have had but little rest since we separated last night. Let me implore of you to come to me ... for I shall hate myself until I have the opportunity of expressing personally to you those true and genuine feelings of affection for you which will never cease to live in my Heart so long as that Heart itself continues to beat. I am much too unhappy to say more." — Dated, C[arlton]^H[ouse], 3 o'clock, July ii, 1822. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. Q 2 228 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph, 1677. Letter from George IV. to the Duke of Wellington offering him the command of the army. The letter begins " My dear Friend," and ends "Your sincere Friend G.R." Dated Royal Lodge, 15 Aug. 1827. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1678. Answer to the above from the Duke of Wellington accepting the command. Dated Kington Hall (?) 17 Aug. 1827. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1679. Warrant under sign manual of George, Prince Regent, afterwards George IV. , appointing David Morier, Consul-General in France, and James Drummond, a Commissary-General of the Army, to be Commissioners of Deposit in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 25 April, 18 14, and subsequent conventions for the settlement of claims of British subjects on the Government of France. Dated Carlton House, 15 June, j8i8. Autograph Signature. Lent by Captain Telfer, R.N. 1680. Letter from Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV. to summoning him to England to give evidence at her trial. Dated London, 8 July, 1820. Holograph. Italian. The name of the person to whom the letter was sent has been carefully erased. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1681. " A COPIE of the letter which the Princess of Wales has written to Mr. Brougham." This copy, which is in the handwriting of Caroline, Princess OF Wales, wife of George IV., asks Brougham for "detail upon what new grand fresh attaque can be made after the declaration of the House of Commons," and encloses a copy of a letter to Lord Liverpool, desiring him to deliver a letter to Princess Charlotte. Dated Naples, 2 Jan. 1815. Lent by A. Keily, Esq. 1682. Letter from Maria Anne Fitzherbert, written at the Prince's desire, respecting some arrangements to be made about warming a house. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1683. Letter from Maria Anne Fitzherbert to George, Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV. She complains that her last letter is unnoticed, and says, " Do not, Sir, by contemptuous silence compel me for my own justification to appeal to the opinions of impartial persons by showing them my letters to you on this occasion, that they may judge whether or not I have said anything in them to merit the treatment I have met with." Dated, 25 Oct., 18 12. Holograph. Lent by the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc, 229 CASE CC. ROYAL AND POLITICAL LETTERS. 1684. Letter from Princess Charlotte of Wales to Mr. Bridge respecting a ring. Dated 31st, Bognor, 181 1. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1685. Letter from Princess Charlotte of Wales to Miss Hayman, giving details of her movements and those of her mother. She says also "The visit of the P.R. took place and they met again last Wednesday. She goes again to-morrow. I should not wonder at all to see him again. As to the K., I understand he is as mad as puss, and no chance I believe whatever of his recovery." Dated 7 May [18 1 3.?] Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1686. Letter from William, Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV. to Captain J. Wright, respecting a case of noyeau which had been sent him as a present. Dated St. James, Dec. 15, 1801. Holograph. Lent by Capt. Henry Wright. 1687. Letter from William, Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV., to Captain J. Wright. Dated Bushey House, April 22nd, 1803. Holograph. Lent by Capt. Henry Wright. 1688. Letter from William, Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV,, to Captain J. Wright, thanking him for some pheasants. He also remarks in the letter, " As for this rascal Bonaparte, I wish he was at the bottom of the sea. All naval officers think invasion improbable, and that is clearly my opinion." Dated Bushey House, Dec. 15, 1803. Holograph. Lent by Capt. Henry Wright. 1689. Letter from William, Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV. to Captain J. Wright. Dated Bushey House, Thursday night. Holograph. Lent by Capt. Henry Wright. 1690. Letter from William, Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV., to Mr. Vincent, respecting a change of tutors for his son. Lord Augustus FitzClarence, and explaining his reasons for making the change. Dated Bushey House, March ist, 1826. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 230 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph, 1691. Letter from William, Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV., to Mr. Powell, expressing the pleasure he will have in hearing that " Chambers " is a free man again, and hoping that both will be more prudent for the future. Dated Bushey House, Thursday night. Holograph. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. 1692. Letter from Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke to the Duke of Marl- borough (?), respecting " the most scandalous and malicious falsities relating to our affairs "' that had recently appeared in the Ghent Gazette. He directs the Duke to seize the author and make him divulge his authority. Dated Whitehall, 14 Oct., 17 12. Holograph. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1693. Letter from Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke to the Marquis de Trivie, announcing the death of Queen Anne and the accession " de nostre auguste Roy George." Dated Whitehall, 7 August, 17 14. Holograph. French. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1694. Letter from Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke to his brother Lord St. John, respecting some pictures which he had left at his brother's house. On the back is the draft of Lord St. John's reply. Dated Battersea, 14 July, 1 744. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq 1695. Copy, in the handwriting of Edmund Burke, of the finding of the Court- Martial on Admiral Keppel in 1778. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1696. Promissory Note for ;^ioo from Edmund Burke to Samuel Athawes. Dated 16 Mar., 1782. Holograph. Lent by G. MiLNER GiBSON Cullum, Esq. 1697. Letter from George Canning to the Prince de Polignac [French Ambassador in England], referring to negotiations for a treaty with France. He states that Mr. Huskisson is of opinion that the omission of the article respecting Jersey and of another article respecting " European dominions " will reduce the treaty " a tres peu de chose," and be " a considerable source of squabble and appeal." Dated Foreign Office, 18 Jan., 1826. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1698. Letter from Charles James Fox to R. B. Sheridan. Speaking of the taking of Pondicherry, he says : " I do not think it possible to depreciate the importance of it, but to take away the merit of it from the Ministers, and to show that we do not owe it to any activity or wisdom of theirs, I believe is easy." Undated [probably 1793, the date of the third taking of Pondicherry]. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] Azttograpks, Etc. 1699. Letter from Charles James Fox to the Prince de Tallyrand. He informs the Prince that his colleagues in the Cabinet agreed with him " sur Taffaire en question," also " lorsque je contois a sa majeste ce que j'ai eu I'honneur de vous communiquer, Elle montra une emotion aussi vive que naturelle but he adds, "Je vous dis ceci, monsieur, sous le sceau du secret, parceque je scais bien que sa majesty s'approuveroit nullement qu'on divulgerat ce qui s'est passd tete-a-tete entre elle et son Ministre dans un entretien confidentiel quel qu'en ait etd le sujet." Dated Downing Street, 20 Feb., 1806. Holograph. French. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1700. Letter from Sir Stephen Fox to John Taylor relating to Orders of Loan which were deposited in the hands of the latter as security for John Knight, late cashier of the Customs, making clear his accounts. Dated Whitehall, 6 March, 1698. Holograph. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1701. Letter from the Right Hon. George Grenville to George, Lord Lyttelton, answering a letter of condolence on the death of Lord Egremont. Also saying that he has received the draft for a thousand pounds upon Mr. Hoare, and that he will leave Lord Lyttelton's bond with him when he receives the money. Dated Downing Street, Sept. 20, 1763. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1702. Letter from Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwick, to George, Lord Lyttelton, on current politics of the day, informing him that Lord Egremont has the seals of the Southern Province. Dated Grosvenor Square, Oct. 17,1761. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1703. Letter from Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of OxFORb, to sending him a " Saxon transcript " and a picture. Dated 27 July, 1699. Holograph. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1704. Bill for stationery and books delivered to Robert Harley, Speaker of the House of Commons, afterwards Earl of Oxford. Dated Oct. 24, 1704. With autograph acknowledgment. Lent by G. MiLNER GiBSON CULLUM, ESQ. 1705. Letter from George, afterwards Lord Lyttelton, and his father. Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Bart., expressing his pleasure at the praise his father bestowed upon his speech, and giving him the last news from the seat of war in Holland, which is, that the Prince of Orange was on Wednesday last declared Statdholder of the Netherlands. Dated April 25, 1747. Holograph. Lent by The ViSCOUNT COBHAM. 1705a. Cheque for ^29 drawn by Warren Hastings in favour of S. Rainsforth. Dated 27 Jan., 1790. Lent by Capt. Henry Wright. 232 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1706. Letter from William Murray, Earl of Mansfield, to George, Lord Lyttelton who had made a request respecting a vacant Bishopric which he wishes to be bestowed on his brother Charles. Lord Mansfield fears that to give this " lift " " won't do at present, and improper to attempt." Dated Kenwood, Oct. 12, 1759. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1707. Letter from Thomas Pelham, Duke of Holles and Newcastle, to George afterwards Lord Lyttelton, congratulating him on his success at Bewdley, and setting forward his own contributions to that success. Dated Newcastle House, 2 Oct. 1744. Holograph. Lent by the Viscount Cobham. 1708. Letter from The Right Honorable Henry Pelham to Lord Lyttelton, about the appointment of a Mr. Forbes to a military post, and respecting foreign politics and the movement of the troops upon the Continent. Dated Sep. 24, 1747. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. CASE DD, POLITICAL, NAVAL AND MILITARY. 1709. Letter from Right Hon. Spencer Perceval to a lady named " Margaret," enclosing a draft for ^200, which he assures her it gives him more pleasure to send than it can her to accept. Dated Hampstead, Oct. 27, 1803. Holograph. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. 1710. Letter from William Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham, to Sir George, after- wards Lord Lyttelton, announcing his engagement to Lady Hester Grenville, he remarks, " To whom has it happened but to me, to receive the object of his whole heart, from the hands of a family whose alliance a Duke of Bedford would ambition with every endearing and flattering circumstance of preference and joy." Dated, Bath, Oct. 22, 1754. Holograph. Lent by The ViSCOUNT COBHAM. 1711. Letter from William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, to Lord [probably Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex, afterwards 2nd Duke of Dorset], thanking him for his letter, " by which I have two satisfactions, one of knowing that Knole is safe, and the other that England may be so, from rioters at least, if gentlemen will follow the example you have shown." He goes on to inform him of the recent movements of the Fleet. Dated 7 Oct., 1757. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 233 1712. Letter from Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham, to George, Lord Lyttelton. He says, " I am so fully satisfied with the conduct your Lordship, the Chancellor, and the five Lords took last night, that indeed for one I could wish to enter our short line of argument in a protest." Dated Grosvenor Square, Friday, P.M. i o'clock. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1713. Letter from Richard, ist Earl Temple, to George, Lord Lyttelton. He says among other things, " All my philosophy could scarce furnish me with the smallest mite of patience whilst the Princess [of Wales] was here : Rainy weather and not one gleam of sun, the days very fine before she came and since she has left us." Also, " As to Wilkes's affair by the Post I may say but little and less of what relates to No. 45 [of the " North Briton "J but a year's imprisonment and five hundred pounds fine ... is I own to me very astonishing." Dated Stowe, 5 July, 1768. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. .1714. Letter from the Right Hon. Charles Townshend to George, Lord Lyttelton, enclosing a copy of his letter to the Duke of Newcastle. He says, " I dined yesterday at Devonshire House and ... I took the opportunity of asserting the necessity of union and immediate activity ; union declaredly with Mr. Pitt and Mr. Yorke and activity both in a summer and a winter plan. Mr. Conway and Mr. Walpole were present, the Duke made strong general profession : Mr. Conway seem'd to think with me and Mr. Walpole went before me in many points." Dated Grosvenor Square, 2 May, 1764. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1715. Sir Robert Walpole's banking account with Robert Mann from 17 14 to 17 18, settled and signed by Sir Robert Walpole. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. 1716. Bible used by Sir Robert Walpole at college, and given by him to his son Horace. Autograph note by Horace Walpole on fly leaf at end. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. 1717. vEdes Walpoliana, or "a description of the collection of pictures at Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford." By Horace Walpole, 1848. Manuscript. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. .1718. Letter from Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, putting off an appointment because Lord Townshend has sent him word that he wishes to talk with him on matters of business. Dated Arlington Street, Monday, 3 o'clock. Holograph. Lent by ALFRED Morrison, Esq. 234 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1719. Letter from George Washington to Mr. Wolcott, thanking him for his account of a meeting which took place in the State House yard. He will receive with satisfaction all information respecting the sentiments of the people upon the Treaty with Great Britain. " It is an interesting subject, and to know the sense of the people generally on it, and that of cool, dispassionate men who are judges of the subject without prejudice or partiality, would be very agreeable to me.' Dated, Mount Vernon, 29th July, 1795. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1720. Letter from George Washington to the Emperor [Francis IL], begging that the Marquis de la Fayette might be set at liberty and allowed to come to America. Dated Philadelphia, 15th May, 1796. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1721. Memorial by Sir Ralph Abercromby recounting his services during 32 years of military service. " It was his lot," he says, " to bring into order the worst regiment of cavalry in the army." He complains bitterly of his treatment in the matter of raising a regiment of infantry in 1781. "After 32 years service, after spending in the purchase of commissions near six thousand pounds, and after seeing many junior officers go over his head, he is indeed a general officer, but without employ- ment, and with an income not forty pounds a year better than the day he entered the service." Dated 9th April, 1788. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1722. Letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to Louis XVIII. in answer to a letter re- specting the return of the King. He says " Vous ne devez plus souhaiter votre retour en France ; il vous faudrait marcher sur 100,000 cadavres. Sacrifiez votre interet au repos et au bonheur de la France. L'histoire vous en tiendra compte." Dated Paris, 20 Fructidor, An. 8 \i.e. 7 Sept., 1800.]. Holograph. French. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1723. " EXTRAIT d'une letre particuliere de Constantinople du 4 fevrier 1801 (12 pluvoise an. 9)," containing news of the landing of the English in Egypt and of the attitude of the Turks. The letter is corrected, and passages added and suppressed in the handwriting of Napoleon Bonaparte. The passage added by Napoleon reads " lis [the Turks] ont aussi Teveil et calculent tres bien que I'Egypte entre les mains des Anglais serait un coup plus funeste pour la puissance ottomane qu'entre les mains des Frangais." Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1724. Letter from Cuthbert, Lord Collingwood, to Lord Robert Fitzgerald, Am- bassador at Lisbon. The Ambassador had forwarded to him a note from the Portuguese Minister, respecting British ships at Lagos. Lord Collingwood states BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc, 235 that it is very rarely that any of our ships go to Lagos, and gives an opinion that the complaint is the " prelude to their following the example of Prussia and shutting their ports altogether." Dated Ocean, 26 April, 1806. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1725. Letter from Charles, ist Marquis Cornwallis, to B. Roebuck, stating that he has sent Capt. Kyd, Surveyor-General and Lieut. Robinson, his aide-de-camp, " to obtain every information in their power, previous to my arrival, of the future means of carrying on the war." He recommends Lieut. Robinson to Mr. Roebuck. Dated Calcutta, 10 Nov. 1790. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1726. Letter from Captain James Cook to Captain John Walker, of Whitby. He begins, " I should have answered your last favour sooner but waited to know whether I should go to Greenwich Hospital or to the South Sea. The latter is now fixed upon ; I expect to be ready to sail about the latter end of April with my old ship the Resolution and the Discovery." Dated Mile End, London, 14th February, 1776. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1727. Letter from Prince Eugene of Savoy to the Count de Wrangel, respecting the disorders caused in Brussels " par una Trouppe seditieuse des Vagabonds," and a question of parole. Dated Vienna, 22 Feb. 17 19. Autograph Signature. Freiich. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. CASE EE. NAVAL AND MILITARY AND LITERARY. 1728. Letter from John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, written at the siege of Tournay. He says : " This army has never at any ^eges til this meet with mynes, so that our Ingeniers moue very slowly by which they give the soldiers time to accustum themselves to be blowen up." Dated August, 1709. Holo- graph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1729. Letter from John Churchill, Duke of Marlborugh, to [probably to Lord Godolphin]. He is sorry that an augmentation of troops will meet with great difficulty, and gives information respecting the probable increase of strength on the part of the French during the next year "so that if 3S \i.e. Godolphin himself] thinkes it practicable for him to continue in the service he 236 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guecph. may be the better able to advise what is fitt to be done." He mentions resolu- tions of the States respecting the sending of the " Pallatin " troops to King Charles [claimant to the Spanish Crown against Philip of Anjou, afterward the Emperor Charles VI.]. These resolutions he has sent to " Mr. Sec. Harley." He advises that Mr. St. John should prepare estimates for the Saxon troops and the regiment of Bothmar. In conclusion he desires that the letter should be burnt " if you find that 38 has a mind to retier." Dated Helchin, 26 Sept., 1707. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1730. Letter from John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, to Queen Anne, full of strong remonstrance. " I am in my judgment persuaded that if you do not alter the resolution you seem to have taken, by which you will make it impossible for 10 [Lord Godolphin] to serve you with any success, you will not only disturb the quiet of your own life but also ruin the prodistant Religion and all the libertys of Europe." Dated Hague, Oct. 4th, 1707. Holograph. The letter is in the handwriting of the Duke, but the tone of it, and the fact that the writer takes the cypher 40 to represent himself or herself, while the Duke in another letter of 1708 uses 39 for himself, make it seem probable that it is a letter of the Duchess. It is endorsed by Lord Godolphin, " D. of Marlb: to the Q." Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1731. Letter from Horatio, Viscount Nelson, to Captain Collingwood, giving news of the Fleet, the sortie from Mantua, that " Genl. Buonaparte is wounded in the thigh," etc. He adds, " Mr. Pitt seems as strong as ever, what have we to do with the Princess [of Wales] private amours, the world say, there is faults on both sides — like enough, thank God I was not born in high life." Dated Captain^ Leghorn Roads, i Aug. 1796. Holography written with the right hand. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1732. Letter from Horatio, Viscount Nelson, to Captain Hoste, enclosing a note to Lord Melville asking him to attend to his sincere wishes for Captain Hoste's employment afloat. Dated Victory, Oct. 12, 1804. Holograph. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. 1733. Letter from Horatio, Viscount Nelson, to Lady Hamilton, written off Dunmore. He says, " We have fair wind, and God, I hope, will soon grant us a happy meeting." Dated off Dunmore, Sep. 16, 1805, 11 a.m. Holograph. Lent by Edward Walford, Esq. 1734. Letter from Admiral George Brydges Rodney, afterwards Lord Rodney, to George, Lord Lyttelton, congratulating him on the invasion from the port of Havre being suspended for the winter and all the troops having left the town. Dated, Tn the Road of Havre, Nov. 3, 1759. Holograph. Lent by the Viscount Cobham. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 237 1735. Letter from Horatio, Viscount Nelson, to Lady Hamilton. He says : " A frigate is coming down which we take to be the Decade from the fleet off Cadiz, if the battle has been fought I shall be sorely vext, but I cannot help myself." Dated Victory, 30 leagues S.W. from Scilly, 20 Sept. 1805. Holograph, written with the left hand. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1736. Letter from Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, to Lord defending himself at great length against " the double accusation of lavishing the public money, and not giving itt to the support of the King of Spaine as I ought." Dated " Abord the Resolution off Genoa, 12 Dec, 1706. Holograph. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1737. Letter from Arthur Wellesley, afterwards ist Duke of Wellington, to J. H. Piele, respecting treasure alleged to have been concealed in certain villages in the neighbourhood of Bangalore, when Hyder Ali first seized the place. Dated Seringapatam, 6 Aug., 1801. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1738. Letter from Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, to the Marchioness of Salisbury thanking her for her congratulations on the battle of "Victoria," and informing her of a battle [one of those in the Pyrenees] just gained after a much harder fight. He says he was never so hard pressed as on the 25th of the last month, but on the 27th and 28th he gained a great victory. " I never saw the soldiers fight so well." Dated August 3rd, 181 3. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1739. Letter from Joseph Addison to Ambrose Phillips, praising a pastoral and an essay on pastoral by the latter, though rather faintly. He goes on to give items of literary news : — " Mr. Row has promised ye Town a farce this winter, but it dos not yet appear." " Mr. Dennis has a Tragedy that is now in its first run of Acting. It is called Liberty Asserted, and has ye Whiggs for its patrons and supporters." Dated London, 10 March, 1703 [4], Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1740. Letter from Joseph Addison to John Taylour, promising to remind the Lord Lieutenant of his promise to two clergymen recommended by the latter, and to take care that 'our votes, speeches, and any other public transactions that appear in print" should be sent to him. Dated Dublin Castle, 7 May, 1709. Holograph, Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham Esq. 1741. Letter from William Beckford, author of Vathck, to) Mr. '^Clarke «of 38 Bond Street. He refers to the sale of the " Bedford Missal " [now Add, MS., 18,850 in the British Museum], which he thinks "might have been worked up higher." In a 238 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gttelph. postscript he says " I find G. Mannering most admirable ; as far as I have read even preferable to Waverley. At page 309, the author alludes to the tale of Vathek" Dated Salisbury, 12 April, 1815. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1742. Letter from James Boswell to Thomas Percy, afterwards Bishop of Dromore. " Dr. Johnson and your humble servant and some more people whom you will be glad to see are to sup this evening at the ' Crown and Anchor ' in the Strand. If you return in time pray be with us." Dated Saturday, 13 April . Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1743. Original Draft by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron, of the poem entitled " The Farewell," beginning : " Fare thee well — and if for ever. Still for ever fare thee well." With many alterations and corrections. Written 18 March 18 16. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1744. Letter from Lord Byron to R. B. Hoppner, announcing his determination to go to Switzerland, " this country being in a state of proscription, and all my friends exiled or arrested," " and the Guiccioli menaced with a convent." He says also : " I have sent two dramas to England," one upon " Sardanapalus," the other upon The Two Foscari " (a Venetian story), both in five acts. Dated Ravenna,' 23 July, 1 82 1. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1745. "Evpinldov 'EmQi]. Euripidis Hecuba . . . Edidit R. Porson. Cantabrigiae, 1802." Belonged to Lord Byron. It contains translations of words in his handwriting, and was bequeathed by him " to the Monitor's Library prior to his leaving Harrow. Tuesday December 4th, a.d. 1804." Lent by The Headmaster of Harrow School. 1746. Revelation viii. 7, written by Lord Byron at the end of one of his poems. Lent by Major-Gen. John Byron. 1747. Letter from Lady Byron to the Hon. Augusta Leigh (Lord Byron's sister). She thanks her for her help and comfort, and says that there was no cause to be alarmed about Lord Byron's health. Dated 23 June, 1816. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1748. Note by the Hon. Augusta Leigh respecting Lord Byron's memoirs. She relates how, after negotiations with Mr. Thomas Moore, Mr. Hobhouse, and Mr. John xMurray, the publisher, the MSS. were by the advice of Mr. Hobhouse destroyed at Mr. Murray's house on the 17th of May, 1824. Holograph, Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 239 CASE FF. LITERARY (Continued). 1749. Autograph MS. of the poem by Robert Burns, " On turning up a mouse in her nest in the beginning of the winter 1785, with the plough." Beginning : " Wee, sleeket, cowrin', tim'rous beastie, 0 what a panic's in thy breastie, Thou need na start awa sae hasty Wi' bickerin' brattle ; 1 wad be laith to rin an' chase thee Wi' murd'ring pattle." Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1750. Letter of Sylvander [Robert Burns] to Clarinda [Mrs. Maclehose, nee Agnes Craig]. Beginning "The Impertnence of fools." Letter No. 25. [Date 1788]. Lent by ALFRED MORRISON, EsQ. 1751. Letter from Thomas Campbell to Mons. Billing, containing an invitation to a party at his house. Dated Saturday, 23rd May. Holograph. Lent by G. MiLNER Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1752. Letter from Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4TH Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, expressing delight in the boy's progress in languages and especially in Greek, and going on to a definition of poetry, and a short dissertation on metre. Dated Bath, 26 April, 1739. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1753. Letter from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to George, afterwards Lord Lyttelton, expressing his indignation at the order in Council ordering the Peers to go into mourning for Queen Caroline, when a former order had forbidden the Peers to wear mourning for their own near relations. He says, " This new order of Council seems to me to be a declaration that no public marks of regard, tenderness, and affection shall be shown in this kingdom, but for the sacred persons of the Royal family." Dated Bath, Nov. 20, 1737. Holograph. Lent by The ViscouNT Cobham. 1754. Autograph poem by Hartley Coleridge, beginning: " Where dwells she now That life of joy Which seem'd as age would ne'er destroy." Lent by G. MiLNER GiBSON CULLUM, ESQ. 240 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph, 1755. Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Mary Evans, written when the poet was an undergraduate at Cambridge. He gives an amusing account of a mishap which befel Mr. Newton, the Mathematical Lecturer, at Jesus College, and describes his own attempts at learning the violin. He ends with a song, the " Complaint of Nina-thoma." Dated Jesus College, Cambridge, 7 Feb., 1793. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1756. Receipt from William Congreve to John Warner & Co. for ^40. Dated 8 Dec.^ 17 19. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1757. Letter from William Cowper to his cousin. General Cowper, with a poem entitled ''The Negro's Complaint." Dated Weston Underwood, 14 April, 1788. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1758. Letter from William Cowper to his brother, regretting to hear of his indisposi- tion, and informing him that he is going to be accountable to Socket for a new electrical machine. Dated Weston, Nov. 17, 1793. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1759. Letter from Daniel Defoe to Lord . He refers to the attempted assassi- nation of Harley by Guiscard, '' The Person with whom I endeavoured to plant your interest has been strangely taken up since I had that occasion, viz. First in suffering the operation of the surgeon to heal the wound of the assassin, and since on accumulating honours from Parliament, Queen and People. On Thursday evening her Majesty created him Earl Mortimer, Earl of Oxford, and Lord Harley of Wigmore." Dated Newington, 29 May, 1711. Holograph. Bears an autograph note by Sir Walter Scott. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1760. Letter from George Crabbe to John Robinson, asking him to send the money due to him, as he has bills to pay. Dated Parham, July 13, 1795. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1761. Letter from Henry Fielding to George, afterwards Lord Lyttelton, congratulating him on his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Rich, Bart. Dated Bow Street, 29 Aug. 1 849. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1762. Bill from J. H. Thylman, of Lausanne to Edward Gibbon, with the words "Bon pour ^30 : 16 sur quittance generale E. Gibbon, ce i Janvier, 1786" at the end. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 241 1763. Letter from Edward Gibbon relating to the trust of Mr. Bagnall Clarke's estate, in which he says that " it would give me great pleasure to contribute to the relief and benefit of Mr. Clarke's family." Dated Sheffield Place, Dec. 18, 1793. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1764. Letter from Oliver Goldsmith to David Garrick about a play of his which Garrick refuses acting by the advice of Mr. Colman. Goldsmith says, " Upon mature deliberation and the advice of a sensible friend, I begin to think it indelicate in me to throw upon you the odium of confirming Mr. Colman's sentence. I therefore request you will send me my play by my servant back." Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1765. Letter from Thomas Gray to the Rev. Jam.es Brown, Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, informing him that he is sending him an early copy of " Caractacus,'' and asking him not to lend it, as they hope to sell the more of them. Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1766. Letters from Thomas Hearne, Antiquary and Nonjuror, to , relating to the classification, &c., of the coins in the Ashmolean Museum. Dated Oxford, * March 25, 1707. Holograph. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1767. Letter from Felicia Hemans to Mrs. Graves. Undated. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1768. Letter from Leigh Hunt to his brother, inclosing for the Examiner some verses by Lord Byron, who gives leave to " do what you please with them — omit words, or passages, or whole stanzas together ; and of course you will do so, as the libellousness is abundant and can afford pruning." Dated Pisa, July 6, 1822. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1769. Letter from Leigh Hunt to Edward Mo\on, asking him to discount a bill for £\\ \os., and to let him have the money in cash. Dated Kensington, April 22. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1770. Letter from David Hume to his publishers respecting the publishing of his History of Religion, and stating that he has begun a new work, a History of Englajid from Hc7iry VH., and much wishing he had begun from the first at that period, as it is the commencement of modern history, and he would have obviated many objections to his History of the Stuarts by taking matters so high. Dated Edinburgh, May 25, 1757. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. R 242 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gttelph. 1771. Prayer in the handwriting of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Dated Ashbourn, 18 Sept., 1784. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1772. Letter from Dr. Samuel Johnson to WiUiam Strahan, referring to a passage in the first edition of the Journey to the Western Highlajtds^ which contained " a severe censure of the Clergy of an EngHsh Cathedral " [according to Dr. Birkbeck Hill, Lichfield]. The passage occurred in the description of the Cathedral of Elgin, and the leaf (pp. 47, 48) was cancelled for the reason given in this letter, " for the Dean did me a kindness forty years ago." Dated Nov. 30, 1774. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1773. Letter from Dr. Samuel Johnson to William Strahan. " Having now done my Lives [0/ the Poets], I shall have money to receiue, and shall be glad to add to it what remains due for the Hebrides, which you cannot charge me with grasping very rapaciously. The price was two hundred guineas or pounds. I think first pounds then guineas, I have had one hundred." Dated March 5, 1781. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1774. Letter from Dr. Samuel Johnson to William Henry Lyttelton, Lord Westcote, afterwards Lord Lyttelton, asking that a short life of the brother of the latter, George, ist Lord Lyttelton, should be written under his direction by any friend whom he might be willing to employ. Dated, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, July 27, 1780. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1775. Verse, in the handwriting of John Keats, written by him in pencil on the cover of a fellow-student's lecture-book during their attendance together at hospital lectures. This was published in Foreman Buxton's one volume edition of Keats. Lent by G. MiLNER Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1776. " Milton's Paradise Lost. A New Edition. Adorned with beautiful plates. Volume n. Edinburgh, Printed for W. and J. Deas. 1807. 12°." Given to Mrs. Dilke by John Keats. It contains MS. notes^ and on the fly-leaf a sonnet " To Sleep" in his handwriting. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart, 1777. " Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, published according to the true originall Copies. London, Printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623." Fol. The facsimile reprint of the first foHo. Belonged to John Keats, and contains MS. notes, a sonnet " On sitting down to read King Lear once again," and an ode " On seeing a lock of Milton's hair," in his handwriting. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 243 1778. "The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare, London, printed for Thomas Wilson, 1806, 8vo." Given to John Keats by John Hamilton Reynolds. It contains MS. notes and two sonnets in his handwriting. One of the sonnets, beginning " Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art," was, according to a note by Sir C. W. Dilke, the last poem of Keats. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart. 1779. Letter from John Keats to Miss Brawne at Hampstead, in which he apologises for not coming to see her, and says, " I cannot resolve to mix any pleasure with my days ... I love you too much to venture to Hampstead ; I feel it is not paying a visit but venturing into a fire . . . Knowing that my life must be passed in fatigue and trouble, I have been endeavouring to wean myself from you ... I cannot bear the pain of being happy, it is out of the question : I must admit no thought of it." Dated Fleet Street, Monday Morning. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1780. Letter from John Keats to C. W. Dilke expressing his resolution to take to magazine writing, and to try and push his way in the literary world. He says " I should a year or two ago have spoken my mind on any subject with the ut- most simplicity. I hope I have learnt a little better, and am confident I shall be able to cheat as well as any literary Jew of the market. ... I am fit for nothing but literature ... I have no trust whatever on poetry. I don't wonder at it — the marvel is to me how people read so much of it." Undated. Holograph. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart. 1781. Letter from John Keats to C. W. Dilke written while he was staying with an artist friend in the Isle of Wight. Keats relates his arguments with his friend, as to his method of painting, and how one day they had a competition in drawing Shanklin church. The tone of the letter is very bright, airy, and fanciful. Dated Shanklin, Saturday Evening. Holograph. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart. 1782. Letter from John Keats to C. W. Dilke, asking him to send him " Sybilline Leaves" by Bearer. Dated Nov. 181 7. Holograph. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart. 1783. Letter from John Keats to C. W. Dilke, written shortly before he died, telling him that he has a choice of going to South America, or as surgeon to an Indiaman, which last he thinks will be his fate. Date 1820. Holograph. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Ch\rles W. Dilke, Bart. R 2 244 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1784. Letter from John Keats to Mrs. Brawne, written while in quarantine in the Bay of Naples. He expresses his admiration of the Bay, and regrets that he does not feel himself sufficiently a citizen of this world to be able to give a worthy account of it. He says : " I feel a spirit in my brain would lay it forth pleasantly. What a misery it is to have an intellect in splints ! " He has been much depressed on his voyage by a young lady in consumption being on board,, and evidently marks and fears his own symptoms in noting hers. Dated Naples Harbour, Oct. 24, 1820. Holograph. Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart. CASE GG. LITERARY {Continued). 1785. Letter from Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge regretting that he cannot obtain leave from his office to pay him a visit, and containing a parody of some dactyls which Coleridge had sent him. Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1786. Letter from Charles Lamb to Messrs. Oilier respecting the disposal of some of his books, and containing a list of the names of his friends he wishes copies to- be sent to. In a postscript he says : " I think Southey will give us a lift in that damn'd Quarterly." Dated i8th June, 181 8. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1787. Letter from Charles Lamb to B. Montague calling his attention to the fact that a Miss B. is in want of money and is too modest to ask for it, and asking Montague to procure it for her. Dated Monday. Holograph. Lent by G. MiLNER Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1788. Letter from Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge, telling him that " My poor dear,. dearest sister, in a fit of insanity, has been the death of her mother. I was at hand- only time enough to snatch the knife out of her grasp God has preserved to me my senses — I eat and drink and sleep, and have my judgment I believe very sound. My poor father was slightly wounded and I am left to take care of him and my aunt .... write as religious a letter as possible, but no mention of what is gone and done with. With me the former things are passed away and 1 have something more to do than to feel. Mention nothing of poetry. I have destroyed every vestige of past vanities of that kind." Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs y Etc, 245 1789. Letter from Hannah More to Mr. Cadell, informing him that she is not disposed to part with her poems for less than the sum of forty guineas, and mentioning that the " Search " has brought her in one hundred pounds. Dated Bristol, Oct. 29th, 1775. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1790. Letter from Thomas Moore, asking that a parcel belonging to his wife may be forwarded to her. Dated Sloperton, April 12, 1844. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1791. Letter from Alexander Pope to Samuel Buckley, written by the side of Lord Peterborough's couch where he lay ill. Pope remarks of Lord Peterborough, " I really think it worth no man's while to do any great or good action for any other motive than the inward satisfaction of his own conscience in the good done." Dated Southampton, Aug. 26. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1792. Letter from Alexander Pope to , relating his expeditions in the country and on various other small topics. Dated Chiswick, 25 Oct. Holograph. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1793. Letter from Alexander Pope to George, afterwards Lord Lyttelton, ex- pressing his pleasure in the quiet he finds at his present residence and saying, " Tho I let the world alone at my very entrance into it I found as much envy and opposition as if my ambition had been to overwhelm it ; and since I chanced to succeed in my own Low Walk, as much solicitation and vile flattery as if I had places and Preferment to bestow. I never deserved nor desired either." Dated Bath, Dec. 12, 1739. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1794. Letter from Matthew Prior to Lord Godolphin (?), thanking him for the con- tinuance of his pension, complaining of his circumstances, and asking for employ- ment. Dated " West""- July 28th, 1709." Holograph. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1795. Letter from Samuel Richardson to his sister in answer to her having sent him, at his request, her criticism on " Sir Charles Grandison," in which he gently chides her for not finding more faults. He is interrupted in writing this letter by the news of the death of his brother, to whom he was tenderly attached. Dated April 9th, at night. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1796. Autograph MS. of a critique by Sir Walter Scott in the Edi7tbicrgh Review of " Women ; a Pour et Contre.'' A Tale by the Author of " Bertram," &c. [C. R. Maturin.] 1818. Lent by A. CONSTABLE, Esq. 246 Exhibition of the Royal Hottse of Gttelph. 1797. Poem, by Sir Walter Scott, entitled, " The Sheriff's Fancy," to a tune so-called sent to Miss Smith. Autograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1798. Two Songs from Rokeby, " Hail to thy cold and clouded beam," and " BrignaFs Banks," in the handwriting of Sir Walter Scott. On the other half of the sheet is a letter to Dr. J. Clarke, giving the author's opinion as to the style of music to which the last should be set. " Being quite unmusical I can only say the tune should have a mixture of wild lightness and melancholy capable in short, by the taste of the singer dwelling on particular notes, to be made either gay or sad as the words require." Dated Edinburgh, 16 Nov., 1812. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1799. Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Dr. J. Clarke, Professor of Music at Cam- bridge, in answer to a question respecting the professorship of music at Edinburgh. After disparaging remarks on the probable management of the matter, " on that quiet snug mode of management called jobbery," and "upon the true national principle of keeping our own fishguts for our own seamaws," he goes on to speak of " some exquisite songs in Miss Baillie's third volume of plays on the passions now just coming out. An out- law's song in particular is one of the wildest and most fanciful things I remember. I hope you will set it. Something of a wild bugle-horn note in the last line but one would have a fine effect." The song in question is the well-known " Chough and Crow," afterwards "set" by Sir H. Bishop. Dated Ashetiel, 22 Dec, 1811. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1800. Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Sir William Knighton. A long discourse on the condition of poHtical parties in Scotland, and especially of Scottish Toryism and its subdivisions. The letter is dated, " Abbotsford, 14 Nov.," but the year is probably 1825. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1801. Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Sir W. Knighton, referring to the death of George IV., whom he praises in strong terms. Dated, Abbotsford, Melrose, 14. July, 1830. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1802. Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Lord Byron respecting a desire on the part of " Clare " [Jane Clairmont] that Byron should allow Allegra [her daughter by Byron] to visit her in Italy. Shelley while excusing Clare's manner of writing agrees with Byron that Allegra should not be sent to hei. Dated, Pisa^ 17 Sept., 1S20. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 247 1803. Autograph MS. of part of " The Revolt of Islam," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Canto IX., Stanzas i6, 17, and part of 15 and 18. Given by his widow to Mrs. Milner Gibson. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1804. Letter from Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Miss N. Ogle, telling her to expect him in Southampton the next day. Dated George Inn, Winchester [22 Aug. 18 1 3]. Holograph. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1805. Letter from Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Mrs. Van Hutcheson, asking for an appointment for the following day to arrange about the remaining mortgages due to the estate of the late Mr. Garrick. Dated, Old Burlington Street, Friday, Feb. 27. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1806. Letter from Tobias Smollett to Dr. Macauley, regretting that he is in such a hampered situation, and saying that he had hoped to have had good news from the East Indies, but everything has thwarted him ; he has not credit enough in England to raise half the sum his friend requires, were it to save himself from a jail. If he were able to borrow the money even at 50 per cent, he would raise it and send to his friend, but never before has he been so harassed by duns as now, which he owes to the detention of the remittance from Jamaica. Dated Chelsea, Saturday, Nov. 16, 1754. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1807. Memorandum ot an agreement between Tobias Smollett and Robert Dodsley James Rivington, and William Strahan. Smollett is to write a new collection of voyages and travels, to be published in seven duodecimo volumes, the whole to contain about one hundred sheets. He is to be paid at the rate of one guinea and a-half per sheet. Dated May 5, 1753. Signed by T. Smollett, R. Dodsley, James Rivington, Will. Strahan. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1808. Letter from Robert Southey expressing his detestation of Malthus's theory, and his pleasure at his name being coupled with the writer of a work against Malthus, concluding with : " Time was when those persons were not considered singular who took religion for their pole star and the Scriptures for their chart, and its standard of right and wrong for their compass. Statesmen and philoso- phers who steer by any other will be wrecked at last." Dated Keswick, 1 9 J une, 1 8 30. Holograph . Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1809. Letter from Laurence Sterne to " Mons. Foley et Pauchard," written at Florence. " I have' been a month passing the plains of Lombardi^, stopping in my way at Milan, Parma, &c., with weather as delicious as a kindly April in England ; and 248 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. have been three days in crossing the Apennines, covered with thick snow — sad transition ! I stay here three days and dine with our Plenipo— Lord Litchfield and Cowper— and in five days shall tread the Vatican, and be introduced to all the saints in the Pantheon. I stay but 14 days to pay these civilities, and then decamp for Naples." Dated Florence, Dec. 18, 1765. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1810. Letter from Laurence Sterne to the Rev. G. Blake, relating to family matters. Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1811. Letter from FRAN901S Marie Arouet de Voltaire to George Lord Lyttelton, in English, containing a long critique on Thomson's " Seasons," and other works, with a dissertation on poetry generally, in which he says, " Give me leave to say that the taste of your politest countrymen in point of tragedy difi"ers not much in point of tragedy from the tastes of the mob at bear gardens ; 'tis true we have too much of words, if you have too much of action." Dated Paris, May 17, 1750. Holograph. Lent by The ViscouNT Cobham. 1812. Letter from William Warburton, afterwards Bishop of Gloucester, to George afterwards Lord Lyttelton, respecting his controversy with Dr. Middleton on the theory of the latter as to the Pagan origin of Roman Catholicism. Dated i Nov. 1 74 1. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. CASE HH. LITERARY AND ARTISTIC. 1813. Autograph MS. of a letter by Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, con- taining advice to a lady on her marriage. It is supposed that this letter was written either on Lady Betty Moore's marriage with George Rochfort or for that of Mrs. John Rochfort, daughter of Dr. Staunton. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1814. Letter from Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, to Alderman Barber, intro- ducing Mr. Loyd of Coleraine : " It seems your Society hath raised the Rents of that Town and your lands adjoining about three years ago to four times the value of what they formerly paid, which is beyond all I have ever heard even among the most screwing landlords of this impoverished kingdom." After a discussion on rents, he says, " For I am as much convinced as I can be of anything human, that 'the wretched oppressed country must of necessity 4ecline every year." Dated Dublin, 30 Mar., 1737. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 249 1815. Letter from Jonathan Swift, Dean, of St. Patrick's, to Alderman Barber, com- plaining of his loss of memory and other ailments. " I have for almost three years past been only the shadow of my former self with years and sickness and rage against all publick Proceedings, especially in this miserable oppressed country." He commends Mr. Richardson, a member of the Irish Parliament, to the Alderman, and asks for a church living in his gift, " which is now held by one Doct. Squire, who is so decayed that he cannot possibly live a month," to be bestowed on Mr, William Duncan, in case of Dr. Squire's death. Dated Dubhn, 17 Jan., 1737. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1816. Letter from Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, to Alderman Barber, who is about to set out for London. The Dean tells him that Mr. Richardson is to go with him ; complains of his ailments, and begs the Alderman to " visit the few Friends I have left ... as my Lord and Lady Oxford, my Lord Bathurst, the Countess of Granville, my Lord and Lady Cartret, my Lady Worsley, my dear friend Mr. Pope and Mr. Lewis." He also says, Let me know what is become of my Lord Bolingbr , how and where he lives, and whether you ever expect he will come home." Dated Dublin, 31 Mar. 1738. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1817. " The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the impeachment of Edward late Earl of Clarendon." Printed in 1700. Belonged to Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's. There are two notes in his handwriting to the Preface, one " A silly tedious Irony," the other " A very foolish Preface, J. S." Lent by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart. 1818. Letter from William Wordsworth to the Rev. R. Bamford congratulating him on the testimony he had received of Dr. Bell's esteem. Dated Rydal Mount, May 28, 1825. Holograph. Lent by G. MiLNER Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1819. Letter from Dr. Edward Young to Mrs. Haviland congratulating her on a safe journey to Dundee, and telling her that the papers say that only three regiments are to continue in Scotland, and that the rest are soon to go to Ireland. Dated, Wellwyn, Nov. 3, 1748. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1820. Letter from John Flaxman to Miss Denman (afterwards Mrs. Flaxman), containing an offer of " tender and honourable affection, which remains undi- minished altho' I have not been able to see you more than once these six months : consider this I entreat you as a proof that my disposition is not changeable, and let this earnest of my constancy incline you to grant me permission to see you." Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 250 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1821. Letter from John Flaxman to William Hayley respecting a pupil of Flaxman's, stating the terms of the agreement entered into about his board, lodging, and work. Dated London, Sep. 25th, 1796. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1822. Letter from Thomas Gainsborough to the Rev. WiUiam Dodd, D.D., thanking him for Mrs. Dodd's present to his wife of an elegant silk dress, and wishing he could express his gratitude with his pencil instead of his pen, as he would be better able to express it in that manner. Dated Bath, Nov. 24th, 1773. Holograph, Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1823. Receipt by William Hogarth for one Guinea from George Scotts for a sett of Prints call'd the Harlofs Progress. Dated 10 May, 1745. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1824. "The No Dedication," by William Hogarth, supposed to be intended for his Analysis of Beauty., published in 1753. The book is humorously dedicated " to nobody." Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1825. Letter from John Hoppner to Thomas Stodhart acquainting him with the intention of the Prince of Wales of visiting his studio the next day. Undated. Holograph, Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1826. Letter from Angelica Kauffmann (Mrs. Zucchi) to Dr. (afterwards Sir) William Fordyce informing him of her having been commissioned to paint the Royal Family at Naples, and expressing her desire of meeting him and other friends again. Dated Rome, December 28th, 1782. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1827. Receipt from Sir Godfrey Kneller for ^20, being for six months' interest for ^500 " Lent unto her Majesty upon the credit of an Act of Parliament," on an Exche- quer bond. Dated 28 Nov., 1707. Autograph Signature. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1828. Letter from Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs. Wolff, giving an account of the death of Sir Alexander Gordon, brother of Lord Aberdeen, who in leading his troop forward under Lord Wellington's command, received a severe wound in the thigh, which checked him for a moment, but he led his men on, and returned to Lord Wellington, and saying that the orders were executed, died almost immediately. Dated Russell Square, July 24th, 1815. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 1829. Letter from Sir Thomas Lawrence to Davies Gilbert, expressing his gratifica- tion at the honour done him by the society [probably the Royal] of which Gilbert was a member, at his instigation. Dated Norfolk Square, Dec. 2nd, 1829. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1830. Letter from Henry Raeburn to D. Colnaghi respecting a portrait which he is willing to sell of a member of the Brougham family by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Dated Howden House, by Midcalder, 28th Dec. 1842. 'Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1831. Letter from Sir Joshua Reynolds to Mr. Cunynham about two pictures by Rubens which he is desirous of purchasing from the Capuchins at Lisle. Reynolds offers ;^30o for the two pictures, which are in bad condition, but which he hopes to clean and restore. Dated London, Nov. 25, 1788. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1832. Letter from George Romney to Lady Hamilton, relating to pictures for which she had sat to him. Undated, circ. 1795. Holograph. Lent by Alfrp:d Morrison, Esq. 1833. Letter from Josiah Wedgewood to J. Crisp respecting a circular sent to him having reference to parliamentary petitions connected with the Potteries. Dated Etruria, Jan. 16. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1834. Letter from Sir David Wilkie to Mr. M. Nutter, regretting that he is unable to assist the patriotic exhibition at Carlisle by contributing any of his pictures. Dated i Circus Place North Edinburgh, Sep. 11 1834. Holograph. Lent by A. Keily, Esq. CASE II. SCIENTIFIC AND DRAMATIC 1835. Letter from Jeremy Bentham to John Miller, speaking of letters received from General Miller, and advising that the general should go to Guatemala to help the "new formed political state" to put its affairs in order. Dated Queen's Square Place, Westminster, 24 March, 1832. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1836. Letter from Sir Humphrey Davy. It contains the following statement : " I have called the basis of Potass, Potassium, that of Soda, Sodium." Dated 9 April, 1 808. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 252 1837. Letter from Benjamin Franklin to his wife, which he sends to her by the hand of a friend, Mr. Neave, in which he tells her that he has been ill of a cold and fever. Dated London, July 3, 1767. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1838. Letter from Sir Frederick William Herschel to Sir J. Banks asking him to solicit the King's aid in a pecuniary sense to erect a larger telescope than the one of twenty feet reflector, the making of which has exhausted the astronomer's means. The latter gives a short dissertation on the properties of the telescope, and mentions some of the hitherto unknown stars and nebulae which he has dis- covered by means of the existing telescope, and his hopes of obtaining much greater results from one of greater power. Dated Clay Hall, near Windsor. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1839. Letter from John Hunter to Dr. Edward Jenner, in which he says, "whatever %vas my opinion about people living under water, it is now that the actions of life can be suspended for hours, even days, and put into action again. ... I have been extremely busy these few days past in dissecting an elephant ; it is a strange beast, not like anything on the earth, nor in the water under the earth.'' Dated London, May 22. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1840. Letter from Dr. Edward Jenner to a physician in Vienna, giving him a detailed account of the process and symptoms attending vaccination, and an account of his theory respecting it, with observations on the nature of cow-pox. He mentions that he incloses with the letter some virus for the use of the physician, and states that nothing has occurred to lessen the confidence he first held out, but that fresh and convincing evidence of the power of the vaccine disease in destroying the efi'ects of the variolum is constantly flowing in. Dated Berkeley, November 27, 1 799. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1841. Letter from Sir Isaac Newton respecting a book he has read by Captain New- house, entitled The Whole Art of Navigation^ which he highly approves of and desires to see printed. Dated Cambridge, July 3, 1684. Holograph. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1842. Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Sir John Newton, asking him to employ a certain undertaker for the funeral of a Mr. Cook, as the undertaker had married a near kinswoman of his own. Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1843. Note of the inscription to be placed on the foundation stone of Eddystone lighthouse, with notes on the back as to the measurements and progress of the work, in the handwriting of John Smeaton. Dated August 24th, 1759. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 253 1844. Letter from Adam Smith in which he goes into the question of the relative amounts of custom duties paid in Scotland in that and former years. Dated Custom-house Edinburgh, December 22nd, 1785. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1845. Letter from James Watt to Mr. A. Weston, relating to a dispute about a patent, and giving Watt's reasons for the plea of prior invention set up against him being false and worthless, and saying that a writ commanding him to appear in the Court of Chancery has been served upon him. Dated Heathfield, Sunday, June, 1795. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1846. Document signed by Roberts Wilks, Barton Booth, and Colley Cibber^ as managers of Drury Lane Theatre, allowing to each of them I3J". every acting day for their "daily attendance, management, and acting." Dated, 23 Sept., 1721. Lent by G. MiLNER Gir.soN Cullum, Esq. 1847. Letter from Kitty Clive [Catherine Raftor] to David Garrick, complaining in strong terms of the stoppage of her salary. Dated, Oct 14, 1765. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1848. Letter from David Garrick to Dr. John Hoadley, referring to the play of the Rehearsal. He also gives an epitaph on Hogarth which he had written at the request of Mrs. Hogarth. Dated, London, 4 [ ] 1772. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1849. Letter from Edmund Kean to — Whiston, manager of Drury Lane Theatre, remonstrating with him on his cruelty in wishing a dying man to appear on the stage, and saying that he shall retire to France if wearied any more with impor- tunities to return. He leaves an excellent " succedaneum " in the brilliant talents of Mr. Macready. Dated, Brighton, May i8th, 1844. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1850. Letter from John Philip Kemble to Professor J. D. Levade, of Lausanne, respecting a controversy between C. L. de Haller, a convert to Catholicism, and J. L. H. Manuel, a Swiss Protestant pasteur. Dated, Beausite [Lausanne], 25 Nov., 1 82 1. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1851. Letter from Charles Kemble, enclosing a note for ten pounds in payment for a ticket for the Dramatic Fund. Dated 29 Soho Square, Feb. 11, 1825. Holograph. Lent by A. Keily, Esq. 254 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gttelph. 1852. Letter from Charles Mathews, respecting a dramatic piece which he returns with the remark, ''You do not seem to be aware that the Hcense for the Adelphi Theatre confines us to the performance of burlesques." Dated Adelphi Theatre, October i6. Holograph. Lent by A. Keily, Esq. 1853. Letter from Sarah Siddons to Miss Bird, in which she laments the illness of a friend. She says, " I am afraid she is greatly altered. Good God ! if it is to enable me to disguise emotions which no preparation can prevent ! but I am a wretched actress o^ the stage. Undated. Holograph. Lent by Mrs. Moss Cockle. 1854. Letter from Sarah Siddons to Miss Bird, asking how a friend is, and saying, " I am acting Lady Macbeth almost without consciousness of what I say or do." Undated. No signature. Holograph. Lent by Mrs. Moss Cockle. 1855. Letter from Sarah Siddons, giving an account ot the burning of Drury Lane Theatre and the loss of all the dresses, laces, and jewels that she had been col- lecting for thirty years, and her gratitude that her brother did not know of the fire until it was over, or he would certainly have been injured in endeavouring to save something from the horrible catastrophe. She particularly laments the loss of a piece of lace which had belonged to the poor Queen of France, " It could never have been bought for a thousand pounds, but that's the least regret, it was so interesting ! Undated. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. CASE JJ. MISCELLANEOUS. 1856. Letter from Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire [Daughter of John, Earl Spencer], to Lady Melbourne. Undated [circ. 1790]. Holograph. Lent by The Hon. Gerald Ponsonby. 1856. * Certificate of a Marriage at the Fleet. Lent by J. J. Howard, Esq. 1857. Certificate of the Baptism of "Amyly Daughter of Henry Lyon of Nesse" \i.e. Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton], May 12, 1765. Copied from the Register of Neston, by R. Carter, Curate, Dec. 19, 1781. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1858. Transcript in the handwriting ot Emma, Lady Hamilton, ot a letter originally in cypher, from Charles IV., King of Spain, to Ferdinand IV., King of the Two BALCONY.] Sicilies, dated San Ildefonso, Aug. 11, 1795, announcing that he had made peace with the French Repubhc Endorsed by Sir WilHam Hamilton. Italian. This letter, which was obtained by Lady Hamilton from the Queen of the Two Sicilies, was sent to the English Government. Nelson, in the last codicil to his will, says, " She (Lady Hamilton) obtamed the King of Spain's letter to his brother, the King of Naples, acquainting him of his intention to declare war against England, from which letter the Ministry sent out orders to Sir John Jervis to strike a stroke, if opportunity offered, against either the arsenals of Spain or her fleet." Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1859. Letter from John Hough, Bishop of Worcester, to Sir Thomas Lyttelton, thanking him for sending him Dr. Warburton's Legation, &c., and referring with praise to the " Observations on the Life of Cicero" by the same author. Dated 9th Sept. 1 741. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1860. Letter from Selina, Countess of Huntington, to the Rev. Mr. Green [minister of her chapel at Howick], congratulating him and herself on the opinions they hold, and relating that when on her travels after health in Glamor- ganshire, she came to several places where the gospel had not been preached, accordingly some of her suite preached to the people. One of her people has joined the Baptists, and she hopes they will keep him in better order than she could. Dated Oct. 8, 1784. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1861. Letter from Mrs. Dorothy Bland Jordan to the effect that the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV,.), has settled a liberal provision on her and his children, and she trusts that everything will now sink into oblivion. Dated St. James's, Tuesday. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1862. Power of Attorney from Ehrengarda Melusina von Schulemberg, Duchess of Kendal, Mistress of George L, to Arnold Rosenhagen of Isleworth to sell South Sea Stock. Dated 29 July, 1732. Autograph Signature. Lent by G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1863. Letter from Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough to the Duke of Newcastle on the subject of a dispute with the Duke of St. Alban's respecting the privilege of driving in Windsor Park. The Duke of St. Alban's being Constable of the Castle had received a key from the Duke of Marlborough, and had had other keys made from it to distribute as he pleased, and had also driven in his coach through the Park, a privilege reserved for the Royal Family and the Ranger {i.e. the Duchess herself). Dated Marlborough House, 25 Aug. 1735. In the handwriting of the Duke of Marlborough. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 256 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gicelph. 1864. Letter from Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, to Mrs. Godolphin, wife of Dr. Henry Godolphin, Provost of Eton. She says : " I don't know whether you will have the news of this day in print and therefore I venture some repetition rather than not tell you that 'tis certain the P. \i.e. James III.] is landed with some few officers in Scotland. To any one that does not know the whole design, I believe it will appear a very hopeless undertaking." Dated London, 5 Jan. 17 15. Holograph. Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1865. Letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montague to her husband, Edward Wortley Montague, teUing him of her difficulties in getting her Enghsh guineas passed in France, and expressing her desire to avoid the crowds of English, who are spread all over France. She speaks of Dijon as an agreeable town, but far too dear for her to reside in. Dated Dijon, Aug. 27, 1739. Holograph Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. 1866. Letter from Robert Walpole (4th son of Horatio, ist Baron Walpole, of Wolterton), Envoy Extraordinary to Portugal, to Thomas Walpole, relating, among other things, to the late junction of the Spanish and Dutch in the West Indies, and its probable results. Dated Lisbon, 7 Aug. 1780. Holo- graph. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. 1867. Letter from Horace Walpole to the Hon. Thomas Walpole, condoling with him on a domestic bereavement. Undated. Holograph. Lent by H. Spencer Walpole, Esq. 1868. Letter from Horace Walpole to Charles Lyttelton, afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, describing a visit to Oxford and Cambridge, and breaking into verse at the end. Dated King's College, Cambridge, 22 May, 1736. Holograph. Lent by The Viscount Cobham. 1869. Letter from Horace Walpole to Sir J. Cullum, Bart., in answer to a question, which he is unable to solve, respecting the name of a sculptor whose cypher appears on some tomb. Dated Arlington Street, 26 Nov. 1767. Holograph. Lent by G. MiLNER Gibson Cullum, Esq. 1870. Letter from John Wesley to his wile, containing much good advice to her as to her doing with diligence all that came to her to do, yet not fretting herself, but in quietness and patience possessing her soul. It contains an allusion to his letter to the " stewards," which he believes will " stir them up." Dated Liverpool, April 24, 1757. Holograph, Lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. BALCONY.] Autographs, Etc. 257 1871. Ledger of the Public Advertiser from January 1765 to December 1771, show- ing the effect of the publication of the Letters of Junius on the sale of the paper. In the handwriting of H. S. Woodfall. Lent by Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart. 1872. "Seal of Safety" of Joanna Southcott, to George Newman. \Circ. 1810.] Auto- graph Signature Lent by Mrs. A. J. Hipkins. 1873. "Proces Verbal constatant que la France est entierement libdree de tous les engagemens qu'elle a pris pour Tacquittement de I'indemnitd pecuniaire de sept cents millions stipulee au profit des puisances allides par Tart. 4 du traite de Paris du 20 Novembre 181 5." Signed and sealed by the Baron de Barbieron the part of Austria, James Drummond on the part of Great Britain, the Chevalier Piautaz on the part of Prussia, the Baron de Merian de Salkach on the part of Russia, and by Baron Monnier, Mons. de Rayneval, Baron Ramond and Baron Hely d'Oissel on the part of France. Dated Paris, 28 Sept. 1821, Lent by Captain Telfer, R.N. 1874. Handbill announcing a Main of Cocks to be fought at the Cockpit Royal, the south side of St. James's Park, on Monday the 20th and Tuesday the 21st instant," between the Gentlemen of Winchmore Hill and Suffolk [Ore. 1800]. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1875. Handbill announcing a Main of Cocks to be fought in the Manchester Hall, Wrexham, 22nd and 23rd of June, 1818, between the Gentlemen of Montgomery- shire and Flintshire. Lent by H. Saxe Wyndham, Esq. 1876. Coronation Ticket of George HL (d. 1830). Lent by G. Milner-Gibson-Cullum, Esq. 1876*. Coronation Ticket of George IV. Lent by J. D. Wyatt, Esq. 1877. Coronation Ticket of William IV. (d. 1837). Lent by G. Milner-Gibson-Cullum, Esq. 1878. Funeral Ticket of William Pitt (d. 1806). Lent by G. Milner-Gibson-Cullum, Esq. 1879. Funeral Ticket of Lord Nelson (d. 1805). Lent by G. Milner-Gibson-Cullum, Esq. 1880. Ticket of Admission to the Trial of Warren Hastings, 1788-1795. Lent by G. Milner-Gibson-Cullum, Esq. 1881. Ticket of Admission to the Trial of Lord Melville, 1805. Lent by G. MiLNER-GlBSON-CuLLUM, Esq. 258 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. PICTURES. Central Hall. 1882. Victoria Mary Louisa, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861). Dated 1857. By F. X. Winterhalter. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen (Windsor). 1882*. George L (1714-1727). By Sir G. Kneller. Lent by The Count Kielmansegg. West Gallery. 1883. George IV. as Prince Regent (1762-1830). By H. Bone. Lent by H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. 1884. William IV. (1830- 1837). By Sir W. J. Newton. Lent by the Earl of Mayo. 1885. Queen Adelaide. By Sir W. J. Newton. Lent by Mrs. Newton. 1886. William Pitt, ist Earl of Chatham. Lent by G. P. Boyce, Esq. 1887. Charles James Fox. (Enamel.) By C. Muss. Lent by the Earl of Ilchester. 1888. George Canning. By H. Bone. Lent by John Tudor Frere, Esq. BALCONY.] Drawings and Engravings. 259 DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVINGS. In the Balcony, 1889. Mrs. Fitzherbert. Pencil Drawing. By COSWAY. Lent by The Hon. F. B. Massey Mainwaring. 1890. A Sketch. Pencil Drawing. By CoswAY. Lent by The Earl of Carlisle. 1891. Sketch of a Lady. Pencil. By CoswAY. Lent by The Earl of Carlisle. 1892. George IV. as Prince of Wales. By CoswAY. Lent by Sir P. Currie, K.C.B. 1893. Horatio, Lord Nelson, drawn in 1800. By Kestor. Lent by The Earl Nelson. 1894. Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Mezzotint. Lent by University College, Oxford. 1895. Mrs. Siddons and her Brothers, John and Charles Kemblk. Water-colour Drawing. By Sir W. T. Newton. Lent by Mrs. H. Llewellyn Bird. 1896. Alexander Pope. Pencil Drawing. By G. Vertue. Lent by The Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart. 1897. Beau Brummel, 1778-1840. By DiGHTON. Lent by Jules Amedkf. Joubert, Esq. S 2 26o Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. ENGRA VINGS LENT BY HARRY THORNBER, ESQ. 1898. Robert, Viscount Castlereagh, 1769-1822. By C. Turner, after Lawrence. 1899. Robert Burns, 1759- 1796. By W. Walker and S. Cousins, after Nasmyth. 1900. Sir Henry Raeburn, 1756-1823. By W. Walker, after Raeburn. 1901. Mrs. Abington, 1731-1815. By J. Watson, after Reynolds. 1902. Kitty Clive as Philida, 1711-1785. By J. Faber, after Van Bleeck. 1903. Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby, 1759- 1829. By Bartolozzi, after Lawrence. 1904. Mrs. Jordan as Hyppolita. By Jones, after Hoppner. 1905. Mrs. Oldfield, 1683-1730. By E. Fisher, after Richardson. 1906. Mrs. Siddons, 1755-1831. By R. Graves, after Gainsborough. 1907. James Watt, 1 736-1 819. By C. Turner, after Lawrence. 1908. Royal Visit to the Royal Academy in 1787. By Martini, after Ramberg. Lent by John Harley, Esq. BALCONY.] Drawings and Engravings. 261 1909. Royal Visit to the Royal Academy, 1788. By Martini, after Ramberg. Lent by John Harley, Esq. 1909.* George III. when old and blind, with white beard. Lent by The Earl of Chichester. 1910. Pedigree of the Royal House of Guelph, from Obert L to the present time, founded principally on L!Art de verifier les Dates, with a few modern notes compiled by W. A. Lindsay, PortculHs. MINIATURES OMITTED FROM CASE K-North Gallery. (See pp. 177—180.) LENT BY /. LUMSDEN PROPERT, ESQ., M.D. 1911. Mary, Duchess of Montagu, daughter of John, Duke of Marlborough. Unknown. 1912. David Garrick, Actor, 1716-1779. 1913. Mrs. Robinson as " Perdita," 1758- 1800. By Miss O. Palmer. 1914. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Statesman, &c., 1751-1816. By G. Engleheart. 1915. Mrs. C. J. Fox and Child. By Ozias Humphry, R.A. In Central Hall. 262 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1916. Lady Anne Duckett. By OziAS Humphry, R.A. 1917. Frances Burney (Madame D'Arblay), 1752-1840. By S. Shelley. 1918. Lady Prideaux and Child. By S. Shelley. 1919. George Romney, 1734-1802. By Himself. 1920. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1690-1762. By a Turkish Artist. 1921. Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby, 1759-1829. By J. Nixon. 1922. Mrs. Harlowe, Actress, 1765-1852. By J. Nixon. Sighted. 1923. Jack Bannister, Actor, 1760-1836. By H. Edridge. 1924. Elizabeth, Countess Grosvenor. By Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. 1925. Maria Theresa, Empress of Germany, 17 17-1 780. By J. S. LlOTARD. 1926. Talleyrand, i 736-1 821. By J. P. G. AuGUSTiN. 1927. Harriet Boyle, Lady O'Neill, d. 1793. By W. Hamilton, R.A. 1928. George Ponsonby. By N. Plimer. WEST GALLERY.] Snuff-Boxes, Etc. 263 CASE LL-West Gallery. SNUFF-BOXES AND OTHER OBJECTS LENT BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF HANOVER. 1929. Gold Snuff-box, with cameo of George IV. 1930. Gold Snuff-box, with miniature in enamel, which belonged to Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, daughter of George IIL 1931. Gold Snuff-box, with miniature of George III. 1932. Gold Snuff-box, with dark blue enamel and in four divisions ; used by Queen Charlotte. 1933. Blue enamel heart-shaped Pendant, with the monogram in pearls of Queen Charlotte, and containing a lock of hair of George III, 1934. Paper-weight, with miniature of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, as a child. SNUFF-BOXES, WATCHES, RELICS, ETC., LENT BY HR.H. THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK LUNEBERG. 1935. Plain oval Gold Snuff-box, with miniature of H.M. Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Queen of Wurtemberg, daughter of George III. 1936. Louis Phiitppe oval Gold Snuff-box, enamelled, with miniature of Princess Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, daughter of George III. 1937. Round Gandauer Snuff-box, with gold mounts, and set with a gold coronation medal of George IV. 264 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gttelph. 1938. Small oval Gold-mounted Agate Snuff-box, with miniatures of Frederick^ Prince of Wales, and Augusta, Princess of Wales, parents of George III. 1939. Large circular Gold Snuff-box, with miniature of William IV. ; and inscribed "The Gift of the King to Sir Charles Thornton 1835." 1940. Large square Gold Snuff-box, with miniature of Princess Elizabeth, Land- gravine of Hesse Homburg, daughter of George III., and with locks of her hair. 1941. Gold Snuff-box, in rococo style, richly chased, with miniature of Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, daughter of George III. 1942. Round Jasper Snuff-box, set in plain gold, and with miniature of Princess Sophia, daughter of George III. 1943. Oblong Gold and Tortoise-shell Snuff-box, with miniature of George IV„ in enamel. 1944. Round Gold and Tortoise-shell Snuff-box, with miniature of George IV. as Prince of Wales, in enamel. The lid is inscribed " The gift of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to Colonel Thornton." 1945. Round Gold and Tortoise-shell Snuff-box, with bust of George IV. as Regent and with the royal monogram. 1946. Round Wooden Snuff-box, with a medallion in gold representing the Round Tower in Windsor Castle. This box was made on the commencement of the restorations at the castle, August 12, 1824. It it inscribed " This box was made from part of a beam in Windsor Castle placed there when the castle was originally built by King Edward III." 1947. Square Gold and Tortoise-shell Snuff-box, with medalHon of Frederick^ Duke of York. 1948. Square Gold and Tortoise-shell Snuff-box, with miniature of George III. in military uniform. WEST GALLERY.] Smiff-Boxes, Etc. 265 1949. Square Oak Box, mounted in gold, presented by the Corporation of London to Augustus, Duke of Sussex, on his receiving the Freedom of the City, April 25, 1816. The lid bears the Royal Arms in the centre, and at the upper corners the stars of the Bath and of the Order of the Guelphs ; and at the lower corners medallions. 1950. Round Wooden Snuff-box, inscribed " This box was made from the tree that stood in front of Kew Church, under which the Duke of Wellington sat at the funeral of His late R.H. the Duke of Cambridge." 1951. Gold Lever English Watch which belonged to George III. On the back is the royal monogram. Maker Just Vulliamy. 1952. Small Double-Case Gold Watch which belonged to Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover. It was presented by the King to General Thornton, who bequeathed it to H.R.H. The Crown Prince of Hanover. 1953. Gold Chronometer Watch, which belonged to Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover. Makers, Arnold and Dent, London. 1954. Gold Patent Lever Watch with Thermometer. Maker Josiah Emery, Charing Cross, London. The case is inscribed in German, " From the inheritance of H.M. Queen Adelaide of England to H.M. George V." Attached is a gold chain, seal, and key. 1955. Gold Double-case Watch, presented by George 1. to Count Hans Caspar Bothmar, Ambassador from Hanover to the Court of St. James. 1956. Silver Inkstand which belonged to Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester. Hall- mark 1758. 1957. Silver Inkstand which belonged to William Pitt. Hall-mark 1769. By Plwnmcr. 1958. Two Small Silver Candlesticks which belonged to William Pitt. Hall-mark 17 19. V>y Liger. 1959. An English Field-Marshal's Staff, conferred by George IV. on Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover. 266 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 1960. A Staff with gold -head inscribed G. R., used at the English Court by Ernest Augustus, Du ce of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover, as Colonel and Honorary Colonel of the Horse Guards (Blues). 1961. Book, containing an account of the theft of the Gold Tablet from Liineburg Cathedral by Nickel List in 1698. It formerly belonged to the Electress Sophia. 1962. Fan which belonged to Queen Charlotte. Lent by H.R.H. The Princess Frederica of Hanover. SELECTION OF WATCHES EXHIBITED IN CASE M-North Gallery. (See p. 189.) 1963. Oval Clock Watch of the i6th cent, with pierced case. Made at Nuremberg. 1964. Minute Repeater of the i6th cent. Maker, David' Hubert^ Lofidon. 1965. Early French Cat- Gut Watch with one hand only. Maker, Rallart, Paris. 1966. Quarter Repeater with cylinder escapement. Maker, G. Graham^ London, 1967. Oval Clock Alarum Watch, dated 1648, and inscribed with the Name of Oliver Cromwell. 1968. Watch in the form of a human Skull ; its dial is engraved with a representa- tion of the Day of Judgment. Maker, Johann Lend. 1969. Alarum Watch with single hand ; enamelled and pierced case, i6th cent. Maker, Josias Je?tti, Paris. NORTH GALLERY.] WatcheS. 267 1970. Oval Watch said to have belonged to John Milton. The figures which mark the hours are raised. 1971. Watch with dials at front and back. The front dial registers the seconds, minutes, and hours ; the back dial 52 weeks, 12 months, and the year. 1972. Silver Watch with spring of hair and one hand. German. 1973. Early Chronometer. Made and invented by /. Ar?iold, London. 1974. Silver Watch and Pedometer combined. Maker, A'. Gout, London. 1975. Astronomical Watch, said to have belonged to Sir Isaac Newton. Maker, Jean Gaspard. 1976. PiQUEE Tortoise-shell Watch, with figure of WiUiam III. as Prince of Orange, and inscribed " Vivat de Prins Van Orange." By Tarts^ London. 1977. Leather Watch, with cat-gut Verge ; the central dial moves round and registers the hours ; the other dial registers the seconds. Maker. /^^//w Fitter, Battersea. 1978. Gold Enamelled Presentation Repeating Watch. Makers, D. Arts Co., Geneva. 1979. Clock and Alarum Watch with single hand ; dated 1636. Maker, D. Ramsay. 1980. Chronometer. Maker, T. Eamshaw, London. 1981. Gold and Agate Watch, with cylinder escapement, showing the days of the month and the quarter seconds. Maker,/. Cox, 1766. 1982. Alarum Watch presented by Lord Nelson to Capt. James Rose. Maker, De Lornier, Paris. 268 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph, 1983. Group of Ladies' Watches. 1984. Lady's Musical Repeater Watch and Musical Seal. • 1985. Gentleman's Musical Repeater Watch. 1986. Ruby Cylinder Watch, date 1785. yi2,V&x, J. Read, Edinburgh. Author of the well-known Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking. 1987. Two Watches, with the latest modern improvements. One, in gold, is keyless, non- magnetic, and with agate plate. Maker, Waltham, Massachusetts. The other, in silver, is a Decimal Chronograph and measures the 64th part of a second. BALCONY.] Coins and Medals. 269 CASE KK— Balcony. COIISIS AND MEDALS LENT BY JOHN GLOAG MURDOCH, ESQ. COINS. GEORGE I. 1715— 1727. 1. {Gold) Five Guineas, 17 17. 2. Two Guineas, 17 17. 3. Guinea, 1717. 4. Half-Guinea, 1725. 5. Quarter-Guinea, 17 18. 6. {Silver) Crown, 17 16. 7. Half-Crown, 17 17. 8. Shilling, 1725. 9. Sixpence, 1723. Struck for the South Sea Company. 10-13. Maundy Set, consisting of Groat, Threepence, Half-Groat, and Penny for 1717. 14. {Copper) Halfpenny, 171 7. 15. Halfpenny, 1723. 16. Farthing, 17 17, 17. Farthing, 17 19. 270 Exhibition of the Royal Ho7ise of Guelph. GEORGE II. 1727— 1760. 18. {Gold) Five Guineas, 1729. 19. Two Guineas, 1739. 20. Guinea, with yonng head, 1732. 21. Guinea, with old head, 1759. 22. Half-Guinea, with young head, 1734. 23. Half-Guinea, with old head, 1746. 24. {Silver) Crown, 1741. 25. Half-Crown, 1739. 26. Shilling, 1735. 27. Sixpence, 1732. 28-31. Maundy Set for 1746. (See Nos. 10-13.) All the foregoing silver pieces have the young bust of the King. 32. Crown, 1746. 33. Half-Crown, 1745. 34. Shilling, 1746. 35. Sixpence, 1746. The last four coins bear on the obverse the older bust of the King, and below it the inscription LIMA, denoting that they were coined from silver captured by Admiral Anson in the great Spanish Acapulco Galleon during his famous voynge round the world, 1 740- 1 744. 36. {Copper) Halfpenny, 1754. 37. Farthing, 1744. BALCONY.] Corns and Medals. 271 GEORGE III., 1760— 1820. 38. {Gola) Pattern for Five Guineas, 1770. 39. Pattern for Two Guineas, 1768. 40. Pattern for Five Pounds, 1820. Only twenty-five specimens of this coin were struck. It is said that Pistrucci, having completed the dies, left orders at the Mint that proofs should be struck on the morrow. On his way home, however, he heard the bell at St. Paul's tolling for the death of the King. Upon this he immediately hurried back to the Mint and caused the twenty-five specimens to be at once struck. 41. Pattern for Two Pounds, 1820. 42. Guinea, 1777. 43. Half-Guinea, 1786. 44. Quarter-Guinea, 1762. 45. Spade Guinea, 1798. 46. Spade Half-Guinea, 1788. 47. Garter Guinea, 1813. 48. Garter Half-Guinea, 1804. 49-50. Seven Shilling Pieces, 1803 and 1S04. 51. Sovereign, 1820. 52. Half-Sovereign, 1821. 53. {Stiver) Shilling, 1763. Known as the " Northumberland Shilling.'' These were struck to the amount of ^100, for the purpose of being distributed amongst the populace, when the Earl of Northumberland made his first public appearance in Dublin as Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. 272 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 54. Shilling, 1787. 55. Sixpence, 1787. 56. Pattern for Sixpence, 1790. 57. Crown, 181 8, by Pistrucci. 58-59. Half-Crowns for 181 7 and 1820. 60. Shilling, 1816. 61. Sixpence, 1817. 62—65. Maundy Set for 1820. (See Nos. 10-13). 66. Pattern Bank of England Dollar, 1804. 67—68. Three Shillings Bank Tokens, for 1811 and 1813. 69 — 70. Eighteen Pence Bank Tokens, for 181 2 (two types). 71. NiNEPENCE Bank Token, 1812. 72—75. {Copper) The "Broad Band,'' Two Pence, Penny, Halfpenny and Farthing, 1797. This is the only instance of the Twopence being struck in copper. 76—78. Penny, Halfpenny, and Farthing, 1806. GEORGE IV., 1820-1830. 79. {Gold) Sovereign, 1821. 80. Half-Sovereign, 1821. 81. Pattern Five Pounds, 1826. 82. Pattern Double Sovereign, 1826. BALCONY.] Coins and Medals, 273 83. Sovereign, 1826. 84. half-sovereign, 1 826. 85. {Silver) Crown, 1821. By Pistrucci. 88. Half-Crown, 1820. 87. Shilling, 1821. 88. Sixpence, 1821. 89-92. Maundy Set for 1828 (see Nos. 10-13). 93-96. Proofs of the Crown, Half-Crown, Shilling, and Sixpence for 1826. The bust on the obverse marks the second coinage of this reign. 97-99. {Copper) Proofs of the Penny, Halfpenny, and Farthing of 1826. WILLIAM IV., 1830-1837. 100. {Gold) Pattern Double Sovereign, 1831. 101,102. Proofs of the Sovereign and Half-Sovereign, 1831. 103. {Silver) PATTERN Crown, 1831. 104-106. Proofs of the Half-Crown, Shilling, and Sixpence, 1831. 107-110. Maundy Set (proofs), 1831 (see Nos. 10-13). 111-113. {Copper) Proofs of the Penny, Halfpenny, and Farti-iixg, i'si. 2 74 Exhibition of the Royal House of Gueiph, MEDALS. Coronation Medals of: — 114. George I., 17 14. Gold. By T. Croker. 115. George II., 1727. Gold. By T. Croker. 116. George III., 1761. Gold. By L. Natter. 117. Queen Charlotte, 1761. Gold. By L. Natter. 118. George IV., 1826. Gold. By B. Pistrucci. 119. William IV., 1831. Gold. By W. Wyon, R.A. 120. Queen Adelaide, 1831. Gold. By W. Wyon, R.A. GEORGE L, T714-1727. 121. Accession to the Crown of England, 17 14. Silver. 122. Arrival of the King in England, 18 Sept. 1714. By T. Croker. Silver. 123. Battle of Sheriffmuir and Defeat of the Stuarts, 1715. ByT. Croker. Silver. 124. Taking of Preston, 17 15. By T. Croker. Silver. 125. Naval Action off Cape Passaro and Defeat of the Spaniards, 17 18. By T. Croker. Silver. 126. John Law the Financier. His scheme ridiculed, 1720. Silver. 127. Sir Thomas Dereham, Scholar and Adherent of the Stuarts, d. 1739. By Antonio Selvi. Copper. 128 Sir Christopher Wren, Architect, 1632-1723. Silver, BALCONY.] Coins and Medals. 275 129. Daniel Wray, Antiquary, d. 1783. Copper. 130. Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. By T. Croker. Silver. GEORGE II., 1727-1760. 131. George II., Queen Caroline, and the Royal Children, 1732. By T. Croker. Silver. This medal was struck for special presentation by the King. 132. Marriage of William, Prince of Orange, and Princess Anne, 1734. By M. Holtzhey. Silver. 133. Taking of Porto Bello by Admiral Vernon, 1739. Copper. 134. The Duke of Argyle and Sir Robert Walpole : the Excise Bill satirized. 1741. 135. Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta. Birth of Princess Elizabeth Caroline, 1740. By J. C. Koch. Silver. 136. Marriage of Frederick, Prince of Denmark, and Princess Louisa, 1743. By D. Haesling. Silver. 137. Battle of Culloden, 1746. By R. Yeo. Silver. 138. Battle of Culloden, 1746. By R. Yeo. Silver. This medal, or badge, is said to have been presented to some of the officers who were present at the battle. Gold and copper specimens are scarce, but this specimen in silver is unique. 139. Battle of Culloden: View of the Battle, 1746. Copper. 140. Admiral Lord Anson : Defeat of the French Fleet off Cape Finisterre, 1747. By J. PiNGO. Silver. 141. Frederick, Prince of Wales : Free British Fishery Society founded 1750. By L. Koch. Silver. T 2 276 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 142. Victories of 1758. Silver. 143. Battle of Minden, 1759. Silver. 144. Taking of Quebec, 1759. Silver. 145. Defeat of the French off Belleisle, 1759. Silver. 146. Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards ist Earl of Orford, 1741. Silver. 147. Alexander Pope, the Poet, 1741. Memorial by Dassier. Copper. 148. William Cheselden, Eminent Surgeon, 1688-1752. Copper. 149. Richard Mead, Eminent Physician, 1673-1754. By L. Pingo. Silver. GEORGE III., 1760-1820. 150. George III. as Prince of Wales : Coming of Age, June 4th, 1759. By T. Pingo. Silver. 151. George III. : his Accession, 1760. By Colebert. Silver. 152. Charles Pratt, Lord Camden, Lord Chancellor, 1766. Silver. 153. Princess Caroline Matilda, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales. Her marriage to Christian VII. of Denmark, 1767. By J. H. WOLFF. Silver. 154. John Wilkes. His election for Middlesex, 1768. Copper. 155. George III. Portrait medal, arc. 1770. This medal was struck for special presentation to the American Indian chiefs. 156. Departure of Captain Cook in the Resolution and the Adventure^ ^772. Silver. 157. Captain Cook. The Copley medal of the Royal Society. Silver. BALCONY.] Coins and Medals. 277 158. Captain John Paul Jones, American Admiral. Destruction of English vessels off the Coast of Scotland, 1779. By G. Dupre. Silver. 159. Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783. Silver. 160. Admiral Elliot. Siege of Gibraltar raised, 1783. By J. C. Reich. 1783. 161. Frederick, Duke of York, and Frederica of Prussia. Marriage 1791. By J. Stierle. Silver. 162. George IV. (Prince of Wales) and Princess Caroline of Brunswick. Marriage 1795. Silver. 163. Battle of the Nile, ist Aug., 1798. Silver-gilt. 164, 165. Sir Ralph Abercrombie, K.B. Death 1801. Silver. 166. Union with Ireland, 1801. Silver. 167. Battle of Trafalgar, 21st Oct., 1805. Pewter. 168. Union with Scotland, Centenary of, 1807. By T. Wyon. Silver. 169. Capture of the British Fleet on Lake Erie, loth Sept., 18 13. Copper. 170. Centenary of the Accession of the House of Hanover, Aug. 12, 18 14. By W. MOSSOP. Silver. 171. The Waterloo Medal, i8th June, 1 81 5. Silver. 172. Princess Charlotte. Death 181 8. Silver. 173. Duke of Wellington. His victories. Copper. 174. John Wesley. Death 1791. By Carter. Silver. 175. Dr. Edward Jenner. Death 1796. Silver. 176. William Wilberforce. Slave Trade Abolished, 1807. Copper. 278 Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph. 177. Dr. Henry Quin, Physician. By W. Mossop. Silver. 178. John Kemble. The O. P. Riots. Pewter. 179. Matthew Boulton. Memorial 1809. Copper. GEORGE IV., 1830-1837. 180. Coronation, 1821. Silver. 181. Royal Visit to Hanover, 1821. Silver. 182. Death OF the King, 1830. Silver. 183. George Canning. Death 1827. WILLIAM IV., 1830-1837. 184. Accession, 1830. By W. Wyon. Silver. 185. Frederick, Duke of Cambridge as Colonel of the Guards. Pewter. 186. Frederick, Duke of York. Badge. Silver. 187. Sir John Soane. The Soane Museum Founded, 1834. By W. Wyon. Copper. 188. Sir Francis Chantrey, Sculptor, 1782-1841. Silver. 189. Sir Walter Scott, i 771- 1832. Silver. 190. Another. Memorial. Copper. INDEX OF PICTURES. {Indexed zmder pages.) A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 65 Abercromby, Sir R., 112 Addington, Henry, ist Viscount, 33 Addison, J., 72, 104 Adelaide, Queen, 27 Aikman, William, 97 Amelia, Princess, dau. of George IL, 7, 10 Amelia, Princess, dau. of George III., 17, 21 Amherst, William, ist Earl, 119 Anne, Princess, 7, ii Anson, George, Lord, 12 Anspach, Elizabeth, Lady Craven, Margravine of, 26 Arkwright, Sir R., 49 Augusta, wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 13 Augusta, Princess of Wales, 13 Augusta, Sophia Princess, daughter of George III., 21 Bacelli, Mad. Giovanna, 49 Banks, Sir J., 64 Bannister, John, 90 Beckford, Hon. Mrs. Peter, 53 Beckford, William, 37 Bentley, Richard, 78 Billington, Mrs. Elizabeth, 81 Blackstone, Sir William, 38 Bligh, Captain, 45 Bliicher, Marshal L. Von, 53 Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 2 Boscawen, Admiral Edward, 32 Boston, Lord, 13 Boswell, James, 108 Boyce, William, 103 Boyle, Lady Elizabeth, 9 Boyle, Lady Henrietta, 9 Boyle, Lady Juliana, 9 Bristol, Augustus John, 3rd Earl of, 54 Bridport, Admiral, ist Viscount, 41 Burdett, Sir Francis, loi Burke, Edmund, 34, no Burlington, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl, 6, 9 Burney, Dr. Charles, 93 Burney, Frances (Mad. D'Arblay), 90 Burton, as " Subtle," 109 Bute, John, 3rd Earl of, 35 Bute, John, 4th Earl and 1st Marquis, 35 Byng, Admiral John, 3 Byron, George, 6th Lord, 74 Cambridge, Adolphus Frederick, Duke 'of, 26 Camden, Charles, ist Earl, 57 Campbell, Thomas, 74 Canning, George, 35 Canova, Antonio, 97 Carlisle, Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of, 29 Caroline, Queen, wife of George II., 5, 10 Caroline, Queen, wife of George IV., 23 Cavendish, Lady Caroline, 46 Cavendish, Lord Frederick, 46 Cavendish, Lord George, 46 Charlotte, Princess (Queen of Wiirtemberg), 17 Charlotte, Princess, 25 Charlotte, Queen, 18, 23 Chatham, Hester, Countess of, 59 Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of, 25, 39 Chatterton, T., 68 Chesterfield, Anne, Countess of, 32 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of, II Chesterfield, Philip, 5th Earl, 39 Gibber, Colley, 89 Clive, Robert, Lord, 16 Coleridge, Samuel T., 79 Collingwood, Cuthbert, 1st Lord, 47 Commons, House of, 14, 30 28o {Under pages.) Congreve, William, 7^ Constable, John, 92 Conway, Field-Marshal II., 114 Cook, Captain James, 60 Coram, Capt. T,, no Cos way, R., 84 Coutts, John, 30 Coutts, Thomas, 107 Coventry, George William, 6th Earl of, 105 Coventry, Maria (Gunning), Countess of, 46, 105 Cowper, William, 76, 105, 120 Crabbe, Rev. G., 78 Craven, Elizabeth, Lady, 26 Croft, William, 93 Crotch, William, 109 Cumberland, Anne Lutrell, Duchess of, 15, 36 Cumberland, Ernest Augustus, Duke of (King of Hanover), 25 Cumberland, Henry Fred., Duke of, 106 Cumberland, William, Duke of, 7, 10, 115 D'Arblay, Frances Burney, Madame, 90 Darlington, Countess of, see Kielmansegg, &c. Derby, Edward, 12th Earl of, 20 Devonshire, Eliz. (Foster) Dchss. of, 52, 66 Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer, Dchss. of, 29, 53, 114, "5. Devonshire, William, 3rd Duke, family of, 46 Devonshire, William, 4th Duke, 46 Devonshire, William, 5th Duke of, 57, 118 Dibdin, Charles, 93 Dorset, Arabella, Diana, Duchess of, 44 Dorset, John Frederick, 3rd Duke of, 36 Dorset, Lionel Sackville, ist Duke of, 14 Duncan, Adam, ist Visct., 119 Flaxman, J,, 98 Fleet, Trial of Governor of, 41 Folkes, Martin, 82 Foote, Samuel, 81 ; as "Major Sturgeon," 108 as the " President," 109 Fox, Charles J., 30, 39 Franklin, Benjamin, 64 Frederick, Prince of Wales, 7, 12 Frere, Right Hon. J. H., 116 Gainsborough, T,, 94 Garrick, David, 86 ; and his wife, 88 ; 103, 109- 113 Garrick, Mrs. 88, 103, 106 Gay, John, 72, 107 George I. 3, 4 George II. 7, ii George HI. 13, 16, 17 George IV., 18, 24, 27 Gibbon, Edward, 67, 105 Girtin, T., 99 Gloucester, Maria Walpole, Duchess of, 22, 30 Gloucester, William Frederick, 2nd Duke of, 24 Gloucester, William Henry, ist Duke of, 22 Glynn, J., in Godolphin, Francis, 2nd Earl, 9, 21 Godwin, William, 79 Goldsmith, Oliver, 73 Gordon, Jane Maxwell, Duchess of, 43, 104 Gower, Hon. J. L., 33 Grafton, Charles, 2nd Duke, 4 Granby, John Marquess of, 18 Gray, Thomas, 71 Grenville, Right Hon. George, 22 Grenville, William Wyndham, Lord, 20, 103 Guilford, Frederick, 2nd Earl of, 33 Edward, Prince, 13 Eldon, John, Earl of, 59, 114 Elizabeth, Princess, dau. of George II., 7 Elizabeth, Princess, dau. of George III., 19 Exmouth, Edward, 1st Visct., 60 Fawcett, John, 81 Feilding, Anne Cath., Visctss., 51 Fielding, Henry, 77 Fisher, Kitty, 82 Fitzharding, Lady, 2 Fitzherbert, Mrs., 26, 114 Hamilton, Alexander, loth Duke, 34 Hamilton, Douglas, 8th Duke of, 6i Hamilton, Lady, 83, 90, loi Hamilton, Lady Anne, 13 Hamilton and Argyll, Elizabeth, Duchess of, 42 Handel, G. F., 94, 97 Hansard, L., 64 Harcourt, George, 2nd Earl of, 56 Harcourt, Simon, 1st Viscount, 5 Harcourt, Simon, ist Earl, 48 Hardy, Adm. Sir Charles, 45 Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of, 10 Hartley, Mrs. Elizabeth, 86 28l {Under pages. ^ Hastings, Francis, 1st Marq. of, 55 Hastings, Warren, 37 Hawkins, Sir J. 91 Haydn, F. J., 96 Hayes, as " Sir Jacob Jollup," 108 Heathfield, George Augustus, Lord, 58 Herbert, Mrs., 13 Hervey, John Lord, 104 Hogarth, Mii-s Anne, 8 Hogarth, W., 96 Holland, Henry Fox, ist Lord, 13 Holland, Mary, Lady, 51 Hood, Adm. Sir Samuel, 46 Hood, Samuel, ist Viscount, 42 Hoppner, J., 97 Howard, John, 112 Howe, Emanuel Scrope, Visct., 14 Hunt, J. H. Leigh, 80 Huntly, George, Marquis of, 43 Ilchester, Stephen Fox, ist Earl, 118 Johnson, Samuel, 70 Jordan, Mrs., 99 Kaufmann, Angelica M. C, 100 Kean, Edmund, 65, in Keats, John, 77 Keith, George, Visct., 116 Kemble, Charles, 100 Kemble Family in " Henry VIH.," 100 Kemble, Stephen, lOO Kent, Edward, Duke of, 24 Kent, Victoria Mary Louisa, Duchess of, 24 Keppel, Augustus, Viscount, 31 Kerr, Lord Robert, 54 Kielmansegg, Charlotte Sophia, Baroness, 13 Kneller, Sir G., 84 Knyvett, Charles, 100 Lady, Portrait of, 83 Lamb, Charles, 77 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 100 Lee, John, 31 Ligonier, John, ist Earl, 59 Louise, Princess, 7 Lyttelton, George, ist Lord, 48 Lyttelton, Thomas, 2nd Lord, 52 Macclesfield, George, 2nd Earl, 118 "Mall, The," 15 Marlborough, John, ist Duke, 4 Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 2 Mary, Princess, dau. of George H., 7 Mary, Princess, Duchess of Gloucester, 21, 121 Mason, Rev. W. M., 75 Mathews, Charles, 63 Mathews, Mrs. Chailes, 66 Mellon, Harriet, Duchess of St. Albans, 89 Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 38 Midnight Modern Conversation, 107 Montagu, Edward Wortley, 6, in Montagu, Edward Wortley, 117 Montagu, John, 2nd Duke of, 9 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 87, in Moore, Adm. Sir Graham, 58 Moore, Edward, 69 Moore, Gen. Sir John, 57, 61 Moore, Dr. John, 61 Moore, Thomas, 95 Morland, G., 98 Murray, John, 92 Napoleon L, 51 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount, 44, 48 ; death of, 60, 106 New Way to Pay Old Debts, 65 Newcastle, Thomas Pelham, Duke of, 14 Newton, Sir Isaac, 75, 112 Nollekens, J., 65 North, Lord Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guildford, 33 Northcote, James, 63 Nuneham, George Simon, Visct., 56 Opie, J., no Orford, Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of, 88, 108 Orford, Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Ear), 7, 12, 118 Oxford, Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of, 15 Oxford, Robert Harley, ist Earl of, 3 Palmer, John, as " Face," 109 Pelham, Right Hon. Henry, 15 Pembroke, Eliz. Spencer, Ctss. of, 45 Pembroke, George, nth Earl, 45 Pembroke, Henry, loth Earl of, 43 Penn, Lady Juliana, 39 Penn, Thomas, 32 282 Index of Pictures. {Under pages.) Perceval, Rt, Hon, Spencer, 62 Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl, 2 Pitt, Right Hon. William, 34, 38, 119 Pope, A., 69 Person, R., 113 Powerscourt, Richard, 4th Visct., 120 Powys, Mrs., 51 Prior, Matthew, 67, 87 Pritchard, Mrs. Hannah, 89 Punch Bowl, 107 QuiN, James, 83 Ramsay, Allan, 91 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 84, 96 Richardson, Samuel, 76 Richmond, Charles, 3rd Duke of, 22, 115 Ridge, Miss, 53 Robertson, W., 68 Robinson, Mrs. Mary, 87 Rockingham. Charles, 2nd Marquis, 37 Rodney, George, Lord, 42 Rogers, Samuel, 79 Romney, Frances, Ctss. of, 47 Romney, George, 94 Romney, John, 94 Rutland, Charles, 4th Duke, 56 Rutland, Elizabeth H., Dchss. of, 115 Sackville, George, Viscount, 20 St. Albans, Harriet (Mellon) Duchess of, 89 St. James's Park, View of, 1 5 St. Vincent, John, ist Earl, 40 Scott, Sir Walter, 75 Selwyn, George Augustus, 29 Seward, Anna, 80 Shelley, P. Bysshe, 73 Siddons, Mrs., 85, 100, 120 Sidmouth, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount, 33 Sheridan, Mrs., 55 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 17, 49, 68 Sloane, Sir Hans, 92 Sophia Dorothea, Princess (Queen of Prussia), 6 Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I., i Sophia Matilda, of Gloucester, Princess, 27, 30 Sophia, Princess, daughter of George IH., 18, 21 Southey, R., 72 Spencer, Margaret Georgiana, Ctss. of, 19, 114 Stanhope, James, ist Earl, 5 Steele, Sir Richard, 15, 76 Stephens, Miss, 100 Sterne, Rev. Lawrence, 71, 105 Stowell. William, Lord, 116 Strahan, W., 66 Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry, 12th Earl of, 19 Sumner, Mrs. {nee Gambler), 36 Sussex, Augustus Fred., Duke of, 23 Swift, Jonathan, 79 Thomson, James, 91 Thurlow, Edward, Lord, 54 Tonson, Jacob, 95 Tooke, J. Home, 1 1 1 Torrington, ist Visct., 117 Trial of the Governor of the Fleet, 41 Vanbrugh, Sir J., 68 Vernon Admiral, Edward, 40 Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford, 88, 108 Walpole, Horatio, Lord, 113 Warwick, Charlotte, Countess of, 8 Watson, as "Dr. Last," 109 Watson, R., Bp. of Llandaff, 66 Wedgwood, Jos., 98 Wellesley, Richard, Marquess of, 61, iii Wellington, Arthur, Duke of, 50, 52 West, Benjamin, 91 Westmoreland, John, loth Earl of, 105 Weston, The Misses, 117 Whitehead, W., 82 White, H. Kirke, 104 Wilberforce, William, 28 Wilkes, J., Ill ' Wilkie, Sir D., 99 William IV., 27, 112 Williams, Mrs. John, 57 Windham, William, 50 Wofifington, Peg, loi Wolfe, General James, 8 Wordsworth, W., 65 York, Frederick, Duke of, 23 INDEX OF EXHIBITORS. {Indexed under pages.) HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, 6, ii, 13, 15, 16, 17, i8, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 36, 42, 44, 83, 86, 88, 96, 106, 1 16, 121, 122, 268 Her Majesty the Queen of Hanover, 263 H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 122, 143, 153 H.R.H. The Princess Louise, Marchioness OF LoRNE, 24, 123 H.R.H. The Duke OF Cumberland, 263-266 H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 123, 124, 143, 144, 145, 146, 268 Addison, W., 8, 104 Admiralty, Lords of the, 46, 60, 61 Alexander, Major-General Sir Claud, Bart., 30 Amherst, W. A. Tyssen, M.P., 129 Ark Wright, F.C., 49 Aston, W. W., 137, 138 Bagot, Lord, 2 Baker, W. R. 4, 9, 68, 72, 76, 78, 85, 96 Balliol College, Oxford, 105 Bathurst, Earl, 38 Beck, Rev. J., 137, 182, 183 Bird, Mrs. H. Llewellyn J., 269 Bischoffsheim, H. L., 27, 81, 190 Bishop, Mrs. W. FoUen, 129 Bligh, Hon. and Rev. E. V., 24 Bodleian Library, Oxford, 33, 38, 79, 97 Bolton, Mrs., 201 Boxall, W. Percival, 76, 80, 89, 99, no Boyce, G. P., ii, 63, 77, 83, 105, 268 Bristol, Marquess of, 54, 104, 158, 180, 181 Burdett-Coutts, Lady, 22, 30, 63, 66, 74, 75, 89, 98, 102, 107, III, 140, 141, 183, 184, 187 Burney, Rev. H., 90 Burney, the Ven. Archdeacon, no, 1S5 Butler, Charles, 82 Buzzard, Miss, 128 Byron, Major-General J., 191 Canterhury, Mayor of, 134 Carlisle, Earl of, 2, 29, 41, 109, iio, 114, I15, 147, 148, 269 Carnarvon, Earl of, 32, 39, 47 Chaplin, Clifford, 8 Chichester, Earl of, 4, 10, 14, 16, 23, 118, 261 Christ Church, Oxford, 22, 119 Clanrikarde, Marquess of, 36 Clark, Mrs. Godfrey, 201, 202 Cleland, John (of Stormont), 27, 130, 133, 163, 218, 220 Clerk, Sir G. D., Bart., 91, 98 Cobham, Viscount, 39, 48, 52, 92, 231-233, 236, 239, 240, 242, 245, 248, 255, 256, 257 Cockle, Mrs. Moss, 125, 131, 254 Cole, Miss Emily, 131 CoUingwood, J. E., 128, 129, 139, 158, 159,162, 163, 193, 218 Constable, Archibald, 245 Cotton, Henry H. P., 133, 140, 160, 161, 181, 188, 218 Coventry, Earl of, 105 Crawford, Earl of, 28, 34, 98, 162 Cripps, Wilfrid, C.B., 155, 156 Cullum, G. Milner-Gibson, 132, 137, 142, 159, 160, 163, 222-227, 229-231, 239-242, 244, 245, 247, 249-253, 255, 256, 257 Currie, Sir Philip H. W., K.C.B., 269 Cust, Lionel, 164 284 Index of Exhibitors. {Under pages?) Dalton, Mrs., 142 Dartrey, Earl of, 181, 182 Davis, Charles, 134 De L'Isle& Dudley, Lord, 27, 112 Denbigh, Earl of, 51, 132 Denny, E, Collingwood, 47 Dent, Mrs., of Sudeley, 156, 157 Derby, Earl of, K.G., 20, 137 Devonshire, Duke of, K.G., 19, 29, 46, 52, 66, 97, 103, 151, 152, 160 De Worms, Baron, 220 Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir C. W., Bart., 77, 136, 139, 142, 160, 162, 193, 194, 220, 242-244, 249, 257, 269 Dillon, Harry, 218 Dillon, Viscount, 16 r, 162 Donaldson, Mrs. A. B., 220 Drake, H., 151, 163 Drake, The late Sir W., 127, 128 Dundas, Robert, of Arniston, 39 Edinburgh, University of, 68 Egmont, Earl of, 218 Eldon, Earl of, 60 Ellis, H. Dynes, 154, 155, 156, 157 Ellis, Rev. F. R., 141 Engleheart, J. G. D., C.B., 138 Estcourt, G. Sotheron, 33 Eton College, Provost of, 39, 103, in Evans, John, P.S.A., 131, 132, 139, 158 Evans, W. H., 115 Falcke, I., 141, 142, 194, 195, 196, 209-211, 219, 220 Fane, Rt. Hon. Sir S. Ponsonby, 106, 139 Fellows, C. F., 134 Fetherstonhaugh, Hon. Mrs., 188 Field, Mrs., 129 Fife, Duke of, K.T., 3, 5, 12 Fishmongers' Company, 26 Fitzhenry, J. H,, 209 Fitzherbert, B., 152, 153 Fitzwilliam, G. C. W., 38 Follett, Colonel, 154, 155, 156 Fortescue, Earl of, 20, 26 Fortnum, C. DruryE., 163 Fortnum, Miss, 153 Foster, H., 193 Frere, John Tudor, 117, 146, 147, 268 Garrick Club, Committee of, 65 Gell, Mrs. E. S. Hamilton, 133 Gibbons, Rev. B., 30 Gibbs, H. H., 131 Girtin, G. W. H., 99 Glyn, G. Carr, 198, 199, 200, 201 Goldsmid, Sir Julian, Bart., 184, 185 Gower, J. Leveson, 32, 33 Grafton, Duke of, K.G., 57 Green, W. S., 106 Grueber, Mrs. H, A., 154, 191 Gwyn, A. W. S., 129, 131 Gwyn, W. R, Harcourt, 132, 133, 187 Hamilton, Dr. E., 69, 106, 133 Hamilton, Duke of, K.T., 34, 37, 43, 47, 53, 61, 138? 139 Harcourt, E. W., 5,48, 56, 70, 83, 87, 90, 123, 224, 225 Harding, G. R., 212, 216 » Hardy, Mrs. H., 157, 160 Harley, John, 112, 271 Harrow School, Head-Master of, 192, 238 Hartington, Marquess of, M.P., 6, 7, 9, 10, ii, 57, 115 Hartshorne, A., 134, 158 Hartshorne, Miss, 159 Harvey, Mrs,, of Ick well- Bury, 84, 129, 217 Helyar, H. A., 118 Hill, Miss, 129 Hinckley, Frederick, 193 Hipkins, Mrs. A. J., 257 Hipkins, Mrs. J. Souter, 159 Holtby, Miss, 135, 162 Hood, Viscount, 41, 42, 46 Hotham, Lord, 191 Howard, J. J., 254 Ilchester, Earl of, 13, 51, 79, 95, 118, 137, 141, 153, 218, 268 Inglis, Captain W. R., 218 Irving, Henry, 51, 81, in Jackson, J., 142, 154, 155, 157, 163 Johnson, J as. Henry, 193 Johnson, Junr., Rev. W. Cowper, 193 Johnson, Rev. W. Cowper, 120, 193 Johnston, Mrs. Campbell, 115, 180, 219 Jones, Charles A., 132, 133, 134, 156, 163 Jones, Sir Lawrence, Bart., 153 Index of Exhibitors. ( Lhider pages. ^ Joseph, E., 190 Joseph, Felix, 194, 195 Joubert, J. A., 269 Keily, a., 224—226, 228, 251, 53, 254 Kennedy, C. Storr, 164 — 167 Kerr, N. Fairfax, 160 Kielmansegg, Count, 13, 14, 130, 137, 141, 161, 221, 258 Kinnoul, Earl of, 15 Lambert, Major, 134 Lancashire Fusiliers, 188 Lansdowne, Marquess of, 72 Laurence, Miss, 81 Lee, Mrs. J. Hutchinson, 90 Lee, Rev. Dr. F. G., 161, 193 Leeds, Duke of, 21, 186 Lees, C. E., 136, 140 Le Fanu, Mrs., 140 Lemon, Mrs. Arthur, 66 Lewis, Miss, 130, 160, 163, 164 Lindsay, W. A., 271 Logie, Mrs., 192 Lomax, A. C, 192, 193 London, Corporation of, 23, 40, 58, 119, 219 Lothian, Marquess of, K.T., 18, 54, 56 Loudoun, Earl of, 37, 55, 72 Lowndes, Miss A. T. Selby, 140 Lowther, Hon. Mrs. W., 130, 137 Lucas, A., 186 Mackenzie, General, 100 McKerrell, Mrs., 153 Mainwaring, Hon. F. B, Massey, 31, 32, 45, 87, 96, 119, 269 Malet, Col. H., 137 Malmesbury, Earl of, 95 Marlborough, Duke of, i, 3, 4, 180 Marsh, S. C, 134, 161 Maxwell- Scott, Hon. ]\rrs., 96, 131, 136, 159, 161, 187, 188 Maxwell, Sir Herbert, Bart., 43 Mayo, Earl of, 132, 137, 139, 268 Merchant Taylors' Company, 191 Midleton, Viscount, 154, 191 Milman, H. S., 142 Montagu, S., M.P., 154 Moore, J., 159 Moore, J, Carrick, 57, 58, 1 12 Morrison, A., 113, 188, 222 — 256 Morrison, Mrs., loi, 107 Morson, A., 216 Mowatt, J. L. G., 150 Munster, Countess of, 128, 146, 154 Murdoch, J. Gloag, 269 — 278 Murray, Capt., 162 Murray, John, 73, 74, 78, 79, 92, 238 Naylor, R. C, 209 Nelson, Earl, 44, 48, 188, 189, 219, 221, 269 Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 137 Newton, Mrs., 268 Nicholl, S. J., 130, 163, 221 Norman, P., 108 Northesk, Earl of, 188 Nottingham, Art Museum, 104 Nottingham, Corporation of, 163 Onslow, Earl of, K.C.M.G., 14 Oxenham, Rev. F. Nutcombe, 132 Orford, Earl of, 129, 136, 159 Oxford, University of, 91, 93, 103, 188 Peachey, J. K., 157 Pembroke College, Cambridge, 71, 75 Pembroke College, Oxford, 220 Pembroke, Earl of, 43, 45 Pfungst, H. T., 130 Ponsonby, Hon. Gerald, 77, 129, 130, 150, 186, 228, 254 Portarlington, Earl of, 114, 125, 126, 127 Portland, Duke of, 4 Powerscourt, Viscount, K.P., 84, 120, 134, 150, 160 Propert, J. Lumsden, M.D., 177 — 180, 212 — 216, 271, 272 Pym, Horace N., 50, 84 Quilter, W. Culhbert, M.P., 92 Ranfurly, Earl of, 32, 39, 134 Reid, Miss, 8, 156, 201, 221 Richmond, Duke of, K.G., 8, 12, 104, 115, 119 Rintoul, Lieut. -Colonel R., 217 Rodwell, B. J. H., 41 286 Index of Exhibitors . {Under pages) Rothschild, A. de, ii, 53 Royal Academy, 91, 97, 100 Royal Academy of Music, 102 Royal Society, 64, 82, 92, 97, 118 Royal United Service Institution, 217 Rutter, Mrs., 164 Sackville, Lord, 14, 20, 34, 36, 44, 49, 55, 70, 73, 81, loi, 113 St. Albans, Duchess of, 53, 87, 14 St. John's College, Cambridge, 65 Salters' Company, 190, 191 Salting, W. S., 211 Scarsdale, Lord, 107 Schreiber, Lady Charlotte, 202-204, 221 Sharpe, Mrs. William, 94 Shaw, Mrs. F., 68 Sheffield, Lord, 67 Shelley, Lady, 74, 79 Southampton, Corporation of, 93 Spielman, I., 2i8 Stanhope, Earl of, 5, 59, 64, 152 Stationers' Company, 15, 64, 67, 76 Sterry, J. Ashby, 131, 210 Stowe, Alfred, 186 Strafford, Earl of, 3, 117 Stuart, W. Johnston, 162, 210 Suffolk and Berkshire, Earl of, 19 Sumner, Miss, 36, 139, 158, 162 Sutherland, Duke of, K.G., 59, no Taylor, Harry, 69 Telfer, Captain, 139, 162, 228, 257 Thorn ber, Harry, 270 Thurlow, T. Lyon, 50, 54, 129, 140, 160 Trinity College, Cambridge, 76, 78, 113, 142 University College, Oxford, 50, 114, 116, 269 Waldegrave, Earl, 124, 125, 128 Waldy. Rev. T. E., 12, 100, 217, 219 Walford, Rev. E., 16, 236 Wallis, J. H., 210 Walpole, H. Spencer, 7, 12, 62, 89, 108, 113, 162, 230, 232, 233, 236, 256 Ward, T. Humphrey, in Warwick, Earl of, 94, 120 Wass, C. Wentworth, 197, 198 Watson, C. Knight, 67 Wayne, Mrs. E. F., 134 Weigall, H., 52, 130, 159, 185, 186, 187, 190, 191 Wellesley, Gerald E., 187 Wellington, Duke of, 52, 53, 62, 187 Wemyss, Earl of, 90, loi Wertheimer, A., 190, 191 Westminster, Duke of, K.G., 86 Wharnclifife, Earl of, 6, 35, 88, 117, 150, 151 Whatman, Mrs., 105 Whealley, Colonel Moreton, 57 White, Henry, 133 Whitehead, Jefifery, 168-176, 186 Wilkie, Colonel D., 99 Willett, H., 204-208 Willoughby de Eresby, Lord, 148, 149, 161, 162 Wing, W. H., 131 Worms, Baron de, 120 Wright, Captain H., 229, 231 Wyatt, J. D., 257 Wyndham, Henry Saxe, 230, 231, 235, 237, 241, 245, 247, 257 Young, Major H., 186, 217 Richard Clay and Sons, Limitei london and bungay. GETTY "^lllll^ 3 3125 01320 2839 ^