Illustrated catalogue of a loan collection of portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Thomas Gainsborough, John Hoppner, Sir Henry Raeburn, and other artists. (1900)
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery · Birmingham : Printed at the Guild Press · leaf 61
him when the painter went toLondon. He wrote to Lord Bateman, recommending Gainsborough to hiskind consideration and that of the King. Not many months pas^sed beforethe King summoned Gainsborough to Buckingham Palace. III. had noticed and greatly ^ - --. A family group ot t of fashion strongly ^ o*… … it has been remarked, made even our old Queen Charlotte look picturesque.As a Tory of the orthodox type he was personally more acceptable to theKing than Reynolds, who, Whig as he was, stood to a certain degree suspect inthe Royal mind, and was naturally drawn to the Prince of Wales faction andthe…
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