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John Downman, a.r.a.
His Life and Works
By
Dr. Williamson
With a Catalogue of his Drawings
LONDON :
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CARMELITE HOUSE, E.G.
1907
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Preface.
THE author has for some years past spent a portion of his leisure
in investigating the history of John Downman, in pursuance
of a promise he made to his friends in 1894 that his work on John
Russell should be followed by a similar volume on Downman.
There has not, however, been the opportunity for a perfect fulfil-
ment of that promise, as the documentary evidence concerning
Downman, which is believed to exist, has not been forthcoming,
and the investigations in various parts of England have only resulted
in a series of detached notes, and in gathering up some reminis-
cences and a few family stories. Although, however, it has not
been possible to compile an exhaustive book on the work of this
very interesting artist, it has been thought well to put into print
the material now available, and to supplement it by various
lists of the artist's works. The following pages contain details
and family information never before been committed to print, and
the author has endeavoured to connect the somewhat scattered
evidence concerning Downman, and to form it to the best of
his ability into a narrative of fact. He is quite convinced, as the
result of his investigations, that somewhere or other there are
still hidden away some letters and papers relating to Downman,
and it has even been suggested to him that an account book
belonging to the artist and a short diary were once in existence.
If the publication of these pages should aid in bringing to light the
lost papers, a considerable service will have been done to the
memory of Downman, and the author is not without hope that some
day some of these long lost papers may be discovered.
The author desires to express his very grateful thanks to the
Misses Lee, notably to Miss Catherine Lee, for placing at his
full disposal the family papers which had survived, and for
affording him a great deal of important information, also to Mrs.
Maitland, the owner of the series of Downman's sketch-books, for
permission to make free use of these books and to prepare a
complete schedule of their contents, which will be found in the
Preface
appendix, and to reproduce many of the more interesting sketches.
He has further to thank the Marquis of Bristol, Miss Hervey, Mr.
E. M. Hodgkins, Mr. Bemrose, Mr. Alfred A. De Pass, and other
owners of pictures for permission to reproduce them ; Mr. Algernon
Graves for the assistance rendered by his book on the " Royal
Academy Exhibitors," and for leave to print the list of works ex-
hibited by Downman ; and the authorities of the Print Room at the
British Museum, notably Mr. Colvin and Mr. Binyon, for constant
and most kind assistance. Hearty thanks are due to the Rev. C.
H. Fielding, of West Mailing, for permission to quote from his
book entitled " Memories of Mailing and its Valley," and for special
information he has been good enough to obtain from various parish
registers and other sources. With regard to Downman's life in
Wales, the author wishes to express his gratitude to Mr. Alfred
Palmer, of Wrexham, Miss Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes, Mr.
Scotcher, Mr. T. Bell, and Mr. Edwin Clarke, for the assistance
they have rendered ; and there are various members of the Down-
man family who have come to his rescue with such scraps of infor-
mation as they possessed. He would like to add a tribute of grate-
fulness to the memory of his late friend, Mrs. James Stuart-
Wortley, who was the first to draw his attention to the beauty of
the work of Downman, and whom he had the pleasure of assisting
at the Amateur Art Exhibition in 1893, when the Nevillc-Grenville
sketch-books were shown and public attention aroused, to the charm
of the dainty portraits, contained in them.
He has not supplied a full list of existing examples of Downman's
art, as to do so would be almost impossible. They are to be found
all over the country, in almost every English country house, but the
list of the contents of the sketch-books already referred to will
supply such information concerning the portraits painted by
Downman as the collector may be likely to require.
Burgh House, Hampstead,
May, 1907.
JOHN DOWNMAN.
Chapter I.
EARLY DAYS.
A CONSIDERABLE amount of mystery surrounds the name of
John Downman. Very little indeed appears to be known
respecting his career, and still less of the details of his
early life. A few recollections have been handed down
to some of his immediate descendants, but they are more or
less of a legendary character, and relate only to three episodes
in his life : one when he was a boy, one at the time of middle
age, and the third when he was in prosperous circumstances
and getting well on in life. Around these three stories we
shall have to group such information as we possess, hoping
that perhaps the issue of this little book may lead to the
discovery of still further details concerning the artist. At the
outset one old tradition has to be demolished, that which calls
Downman a Devonshire man. He certainly came from the stock
of a Devonshire family, one which had rooted itself very deeply
in that county, and had branches of more or less importance in
many towns ; but the artist sprang from a cadet branch, and all the
evidence which the author has been able to acquire points to John
Downman having been born at Ruabon. Even here, however, the
mystery cannot be entirely cleared away. The most diligent
research has not resulted in the discovery of any entry of the birth
of John Downman in the registers of that town. They are not
very complete for the period about 1750, but still it was hoped
that close investigation would have revealed the missing date.
Such has not been the case, and it is suggested that probably
the family resided in one of the little hamlets on the outskirts
of Ruabon and not in the town itself, and that presently in some
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little village near by the entry concerning his birth will be found.
He certainly went to school in Ruabon, and it has been handed
down to his descendants that he gave very little time to study,
and could not be prevented from making sketches of his com-
panions. On one occasion, when quite a little fellow, he was
attending a dame school, and for misconduct was stood in the
corner of the room and had a tall white dunce's cap with two
broad white streamers hanging from it, placed upon his head.
Glancing round now and again surreptitiously, that he might
verify the likeness, he applied himself to sketching at the end
of these two streamers clever portraits of the two old ladies
who kept the school. Then having Bnished this work he proceeded
to draw portraits of his schoolfellows on the whitewashed wall
in front of him. The old ladies were, it is said, so charmed
with their portraits that they forgave him his offence, whatever
it was, and the two long streamers were cut off from the cap
and put between two pieces of glass bound round with gilt paper,
and shown to admiring visitors for many a long day after
Downman had left the school. The portraits of the boys and
girls were, it is stated, more or less caricatures ; they were
washed off the wall. In the local Grammar School, which
Downman is believed to have attended, he had the same character.
His exercise books and his school books were covered with
sketches, and of his lessons only those which had any reference
to natural history or to men and women who had taken a great
place in the world's politics had any attraction for him. It is
said that he sketched imaginary portraits against the name of any
person mentioned in English history, such as he thought he must
have looked like, and no doubt it was this habit of trying to
discover a man's likeness, by means of his character, that was so
useful to the artist in later days, when he had to delineate
character in drawing a portrait.
Researches made by Miss Catherine Lee, the result of which
has been kindly placed at our disposal, have enabled us to arrive at
some information concerning the parents of the artist. There was.
QUEEN CHARLOTTE. BY JOHN DOWNMAN
SIGNED AND DATED I782
{Hudgkins Collection)
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it would appear, a certain Hugh Downman (1672-1728/9), who was
Master of the House of Ordnance at Sheerness. He is the earliest
member of the family whom at present we are able to trace, and he
had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Charles Down-
man, was Clerk of the Survey at Sheerness, and married Anne
Player, of Town Mailing, Kent, and it is evident that his wife
constituted the connection between the Downman family and the
little village of Town Mailing, where the artist eventually lived.
This Charles Downman resided at Bully Hill, Rochester, and
Downman made a sketch of him in 1775, inscribing it as follows :
" He was the eldest son of Hugh Downman, Master of the House
of Ordnance at Sheerness, at whose death his many friends made
be engraved on his tomb these words :
' Here lies honest Hugh Downman.'
And his son, whose portrait you now see, inherited his virtues, and
was indeed truly amiable and good. And I, J. Downman, his
youngest nephew, am happy to record it on this my drawing." It
has been suggested that Downman was very likely staying with this
uncle, Charles, when the episode of the press-gang happened, to
which we refer later on, as Rochester was a very likely place for
such an event to occur.
The second of Hugh Downman's sons was the artist's father.
He was Francis, an attorney-at-law, who resided for some time at
St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, but whether this residence in Hunt-
ingdonshire took place prior to the family settling in Wales is not
very clear.
Information regarding Hugh Downman's two daughters will be
found in the pedigree attached to this volume.
Francis Downman had five sons who are quaintly described in
the family papers : of William, the eldest, it is said that he was
"bred a mechanick," and that by his wife he "begat sons and
daughters innumerable" ; while of Charles, the third son, we are
told he was " bred to the sea," that he went to the East Indies in
1763, and died captain of a ship in that country in 1780." The
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fourth son, Hugh, was also " bred a mechanick," but he had no
issue. John, the artist, was the fifth son. The second son,
Francis, was rather an important man; he became a Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Royal Artillery, and saw a good deal of service,
especially in connection with the capture of Sta. Lucia. An
interesting book concerning him was compiled by Colonel F. A.
Whinyates, of the Royal Horse Artillery, and published at Wool-
wich in 1898. It deals with the services of Lieutenant-Colonel
Downman in French North America and the West Indies, and
contains portraits both of Colonel Downman and of his great
friend. Colonel T. James, also of the Royal Artillery, after drawings
made by John Downman. This Colonel Downman settled down
in the village of Town Mailing, and there he died at the age
of eighty-five. It was probably because of his residence in
the village (as he appears to have been the artist's favourite
brother) that John Downman eventually took up his residence
in that place. Colonel Francis Downman married Jane,
daughter of Francis Day, of Pontefract, Yorkshire, and his
friend. Colonel James, married another Miss Day, so that
the two companions were brothers-in-law. Colonel Downman had
one son, Thomas, afterwards Sir Thomas Downman, and four
daughters, Emilia, who died unmarried ; Anne Phoebe, John Down-
man's favourite niece, to whom we make some reference further
on, and who married Richard Debary, a solicitor, and from whom
Miss Lee is descended ; Jane, who married W. Douce, of Mailing,
Kent, and Charlotte, who married J. Scudamore, a solicitor.
The military element in the family on this side was a very strong
one, as Sir Thomas Downman's two sons were in the army, one,
John, a major of the 83rd regiment, and the other, George, captain
of the 66th regiment, while both his daughters married military
men. The portrait of one of them is on page 54. Major John
Downman also had one son, George, who was a colonel in the
Gordon Highlanders, and was killed in the Boer War, 1900.
To revert now to John Downman's father. It is clear that
he married Charlotte Goodsend, the eldest daughter of Francis
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Goodsend, private secretary to Georj^e I., and this information
is derived from two portraits by John Downman. One is of his
mother, and is dated 1777, and upon it he has inscribed, " She
was Charlotte, the eldest of the two daughters of Francis Good-
send, who had no son, and wife to Francis Downman, an eminent
Attorney-at-Lavv, of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire.
" My excellent mother, so truly hind
And higiily in all earthly good refined,
But once in life she chastisement gave.
And then she did relent my tears to save.
Oh ! memory sweet that sweets the passing sigh
In a soft tear of perfect sympathy."
J. D. 1819.
Down man's mother's sister was Mrs. Hunter, the wife of a
Mr. John Hunter, and on a drawing of her, also dated 1777, we
have this inscription, " My incomparable and delightful aunt, and
whose great accomplishments were only equalled by her virtues.
She was wife to John Hunter, Esq., the owner of little England,
in Virginia, which he left before the war, and refused that govern-
ment. She was Emilia, the second daughter of Francis Goodsend,
private secretary to George the First, and came with him to
England. J. Downman." Mrs. Hunter had one daughter, Isabella,
whom Downman speaks of on one of his sketches as " my dear
beloved cousin." Angelica Kauffman painted her portrait.
We now have the family, so far as can be at present arrived at,
clearly before us, and when we first meet the artist, his father
and mother were certainly residing in or near Ruabon. It seems
possible that they had left St. Neots after the birth of the four
elder children, and come into a part of the world where they
probably had some relations. Possibly in later years Downman's
father returned to Huntingdonshire, as there is a tradition in the
family that he died in or near that place.
The parents, when living in Wales, appear to have been people
of small means, and the father, although not in regular practice,
assisted his poorer neighbours when they required the help of an
attorney. His desire was that his son should take up the same
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profession ; but his talent for drawing was so evident that
all such ideas were placed aside, and John Downman was sent to
Chester and then to Liverpool to learn drawing. Eventually he
came to London in 1767, and in the following year entered the
Royal Academy Schools. The teaching he received at Chester
and Liverpool was a great trouble to him, but no doubt exceedingly
useful. It consisted very largely of lessons in geometry and
perspective, and of making careful shaded drawings from plaster
casts ; but the boy is said to have hated it, and, at the age of
eighteen, insisted upon coming up to London and pursuing his art
education under more pleasant arrangements. His talent was so
strong that after a couple of years at the School he felt himself
able to set up for himself and to exhibit his own work. He
therefore sent to the exhibition in 1770 a kitcat portrait of a lady
at work, believed to represent his own mother, and two years
afterwards the portrait of his uncle, threequarter length, ^nd a
companion one of a lady. During those two years he had been in
the studio of Benjamin West, the President, who had taken a
great fancy to Downman. The affection was warmly reciprocated
by the pupil, for Downman, more than once, wrote of West as
" my most beloved teacher." They had a link in common beside
that of art, as Downman's parents were Quakers, and West came
of a Quaker stock, and was himself greatly attached to that form
of faith. It is not known for certain whether John Downman ever
fully and openly accepted the faith and practice of the Friends.
There are no records of him to be discovered at Bishopsgate, but
it seems likely that he was all his life more or less in sympathy
with the Friends, and attached to their principles.
In 1773 he exhibited his first historical picture, which he called
" The Death of Lucretia, when Brutus swore eternal enmity to
Tarquin and his house," and with it he sent in two small portraits
in oil, said to have been painted upon copper. Between 1775 and
1777, the date of his next appearance at the Royal Academy,
occurred the second of those episodes which have been handed
down in fragmentary form. The story goes that he went down to
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HONBLE. MRS. ARBUTHXOT.
BY JOHN DOWNMAN.
SIGNED AND DATED lyyg
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visit some relatives, and was laid hold of by the press-gang, blind-
folded, gagged, and taken on board a vessel. It is suggested that
this event probably took place in 1775, as in that year the American
War for Independence broke out, and "pressing" went forward with
more energy than ever. It is quite likely that the relative whom
Downman was visiting was his uncle, Charles, then resident at Bully
Hill, Rochester. The ship sailed for some distant port— the story
says one of the South Sea islands — and Downman despaired of ever
seeing his home again. He is said to have married a couple of years
before, and to have been presented with twin children by his wife.
The thought of his wife and family, who were of course absolutely
ignorant concerning him, preyed very much upon his mind. His
entreaties for release were, however, in vain. He was a fine, well-
built young fellow, exactly the sort of man that was wanted, and
the ship had now left England with but little intention of returning
to the country for some years. Downman appears, however, to
have made friends with those who were his enforced comrades, and
by drawing their portraits to have gained their unbounded satisfac-
tion, so much so that one of the sailors, who had a brother at the
port at which they touched, persuaded this man to take the artist's
place on the vessel and release him ; and Downman is believed to
have escaped one night, leaving behind him a handsome gold watch
with seals which West had given him, as a gift to the generous-
minded sailor who had arranged for his release. The story goes
that he was absent from England for nearly two years, and
returned to find his wife and family in a garret in Cambridge,
where Mrs. Downman had some relations, but in a state of poverty
and scarcely expecting ever to see the artist again. We are
furthermore told that within a day or two after his return
Downman accidentally hit upon an idea of which he made con-
siderable use in portrait drawings on subsequent occasions. It is
stated that a pencil drawing he had made of his wife was lying
upon the table one day, the reverse of it being uppermost, and that
one of the children, amusing himself with his father's brush and
colours, dabbed some pink on to the paper where the face had been
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drawn. Downman, coming in shortly afterwards, lifted up the
drawing, thinking it had been spoiled, but found that the paper was so
thin and the colour so strong that a pleasing effect had accidentally
been produced. He was so delighted with the manner in which the
colour showed through the paper that in many of his portraits he
applied colour to the reverse of the drawing instead of to the face
of it, and produced the charming result which to-day is so much
admired. He commenced to support his family by making a series
of drawings of the undergraduates in the various colleges, and at
first took an easel into the college gardens and worked there for
very small fees and as quickly as possible, in order that he might
earn sufficient money to remove with his family to London. There
are many of his Cambridge portraits to be found in the series
of sketch-books now belonging to Mrs. Maitland, to which we shall
refer presently. Amongst them are drawings of iMr. Lowther, of
Trinity, afterwards Earl of Lonsdale, of Mr. Craddock of Emmanuel,
of Mr. Trilogue of Queen's, Mr. Heighten of Caius, Mr. Tyson of
Bene't's (sic), Mr. Farhill of the same college, Mr. Mantle of the
same, Mr. Curtis of St. John's, Mr. Tyoroton of Trinity, Mr. Lovett
of Trinity, Lord Althrop of Trinity, Mr. Ford of St. John's, Mr.
Steed of Christ's, Mr. Randolph of King's, Sir Thomas Proctor of
Christ's, Lord Euston of Trinity, and others. In one or two cases
he also painted the Heads of colleges, as, for example. Dr. Farmer
of Emmanuel, and Dr. Goddard of Clare Hall; and he copied pictures
already existing in the colleges, as those of Dr. Bentley and Sir
Isaac Newton, both from originals by Sir James Thornhill in
Trinity College hall. On moi-e than one occasion he appears to
have executed portraits for undergraduates who were close friends,
that they might exchange one with the other. The picture of the
Earl of Euston he mentions was done for Sir Thomas Proctor, and
that of Sir Thomas Proctor for Lord Euston, and there ai-e also
instances in which members of a family coming to Cambridge
commissioned portraits of themselves for their sons. For example,
there were portraits of two brothers, Mr. Kynneston the elder, and
Mr. Kynneston the younger, done for Sir John Kynneston Powell ;
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Mr. Wakefield, of Richmond, while on a visit to his brother Gilbert,
who was at Cambridge, and a portrait of the undergraduate himself
that the elder brother might take back with him to Richmond ; also
Mrs. Pervis, Mrs. Doily and Mrs. and Miss Colville, persons who
had come to see their friends at the University ; and we must not
forget Miss Peggy Wale, a noted beauty of Cambridge, who after-
wards married Mr. Tyson of Bene't's. For various important
people in the town he executed other commissions, painting, for
example, for Mr. John Mortlock, the banker, a picture of the Rev.
Henry Hubbard at that time Registrary of the University, and for
the same gentleman a portrait of himself and one of his wife, as well
as one of his daughter who had married the Bishop of Lincoln, then
Master of Christ's College. Mr. Mortlock's partner, Mr. Francis,
also sat to him, and more than one merchant in Cambridge; while
the leading apothecary, Thackary, employed him to paint portraits
of his son and daughter. His work became very quickly known
and admired, so much so that he was a welcome visitor in several
important houses round about, where he was invited for artistic
purposes. He went to stay at Peterborough to paint Dr Hinch-
cliffe the Bishop, then Master of Trinity, and also his wife and
daughter ; and they passed him on to Crewe Hall, as Mrs.
Hinchcliffe was the sister of Mr. John Crewe, afterwards Lord
Crewe. There he painted Mr. and Mrs. Crewe, their daughter and
Mr. Crewe's brother, and also Sir Stephen Glynne, who was at that
time visiting at Crewe Hall.
From the very earliest period of Downman's career he commenced
the practice of making notes on his pictures respecting the persons
whom he painted. In some instances these notes were still further
elaborated in his own sketch-books, for he appears to have adopted
a system of making a more or less careful sketch for the portrait
in his own sketch-books, and appending to it information as to
whom it represented and the date on which he had made the
drawing. It may be well, perhaps, in this place to refer more
carefully to the series of sketch-books already mentioned. They
were purchased in 1845-6 by the late Hon. and Rev. George Neville
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Grenville, Dean of Windsor, and of Butleigh Court, Glastonbury.
They were sold by Miss Downman, who had received them from
the artist and cherished them for many years. They are not all
of one size, some volumes being nearly folio and others about
quarto size, but in every case the sketch-book has an interesting
title-page drawn by the artist himself and a list of its contents,
while at the foot of each sketch there is a note concerning the
sitter. As we have just mentioned, these notes are in some cases
rather fuller of detail than the similar note the artist appended to
the finished portrait. The sketch-books comprise four series. In
the second series there are five volumes, in the third four volumes,
and in the fourth six volumes. The first series did not come into
the possession of Mr. Grenville, but had, it is believed, been sold
by Miss Downman on an earlier occasion. It is now scattered,
one or two volumes of it belonging to Lord Rosebery, while others
are in the possession of different collectors. The best sketch-
books, however, went to Butleigh Court, and have now descended
into the possession of Mrs. Maitland, by whose very kind permis-
sion many of them have been reproduced for the first time as
illustrations to this book. They are the chief sources of our
information concerning the artist, supplemented only by a few
detached reminiscences and a few letters. The notes appended
to the sketches are very often of a distinctly personal nature most
interesting to peruse. To the portrait of Mr. Lovatt, of Trinity
College, Downman added the statement, " he was glad to be in the
Church that he might have the talk to himself at least one day
in the week." To that of Miss Colville he added, "her face had
been sadly cut by glass in the overturn of their chariot; " to that
of Mrs. Poore, "done a day after she was so sadly killed;" while
on that of an unknown lady are these words, " I never knew or
saw her again, though the ladies with her highly approved of it.
Often taken for the celebrated Mrs. Sheridan." One of his longest
inscriptions was written on a portrait of Lord Ashburton, which
now belongs to Mrs. Maitland. He wrote : " Original study. He
was General Dunning, the great lawyer, and just created a baron.
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MISS MILLS. BY JOHN DOVVNMAN
SIGNED AND DATED
(Hodgkins Collection)
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I visited him at Putney. His lady brought him something cooling,
as the heat was great : he said he would with pleasure let the
Thames pass through him. After his death I was flattered by
Sir Joshua Reynolds having mine to finish one he had begun."
As a rule the notes are concerned either with the history or the
family of the person, or they refer to the number of times Downman
painted portraits of the same sitter. On a picture of Dr. Lort, of
Trinity College, the artist writes that he was a man " of great
character ; painted three of this, one for Dr. Porteous, the Bishop
of Chester, who I also drew." On that of Mr. Bridgeman he
records the fact that he was " the eldest son of Sir Henry
Bridgeman, baronet, whose untimely death was much lamented.
I also drew his two brothers and sisters." To the one of Lord
Althrop he adds, " I painted two of this." On that of Richard
Cooper, the engraver, he writes, "Just before his clandestine
marriage ; " on that of Lady Charlotte Waldegrave, " Taken on the
morning of her wedding. She died young ; " and of Lady Beau-
champ, after stating who she was, he adds, " I drew three of this
and her little boy." To the portraits of the Duchess of Rutland,
Countess of Tyrconnel, and Lady Elizabeth Foster, he added the
statement that of the first he drew nine different portraits, of
the second eight, and of the third three, and a " whole length on
a large scale." AH these pieces of information are of extreme
interest, especially to those who are descended from the persons
whose portraits Downman painted. In some cases the artist goes
a little further, and gives us still more personal comments on his
sisters. Mr. Wolffe he calls " a most amiable man ; " of Mrs.
Hamilton he says, "she played and sang delightfully;" of Dr.
Mountain he declares " he was truly a man in every sense of the
word ; " Miss Mary Wale was " fair and lovely," Miss Ives " lovely
and fair," Miss Roberson " a writer of great ability," Miss Tysdon
a "very tiresome sitter; she fidgetted all the time." Mrs.
Seaforth " would not sit still ; " Miss Ford " never was quiet for a
moment;" another Miss Ford "objected to having her portrait
painted and looked at me in most unpleasant manner." Of the
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Rev. Mr. Richards, of Longbreddy, Downman declared that " he
had the finest manor for game in England." Of the Rev. William
Way he stated that " he played at backgammon from Wednesday
morning till Saturday night; " while of Lady Newton he added
the very unsatisfactory comment that " she sometimes wore very
light hair as well as darU," making the statement still worse in
another drawing of the same lady to which he has appended the
words, " this was drawn in her dark wig." He did not object to
having a little bit of fun at his own expense concerning the
portraits. As to a portrait of Mr. Woolcombe, he added the words,
" When the picture was sent home it made one daughter laugh
and the other cry ; " while, in order to explain the reason for a
curious effect in the portrait of the Rev. Dr. Grant, he wrote at
the foot of it, " A literary character of note. He had lost an eye
for which I have heard him abuse John Hunter;" and one is set
wondering as to whether the celebrated surgeon had performed
an operation on this gentleman which was not particularly satis-
factory. To the picture of a Vicar of East Mailing he added the
words, " He went nine miles to see an antiquity and set off in a
gallop ; '' while a bit of sly praise for his own work appears on a
portrait of Miss Mordaunt, where he states, " Her Rev. father said
no one could take her portrait, but was delighted to confess him-
self mistaken." On the portrait of Mrs. Boyd he is a little
sarcastic, adding underneath it, " Oh, you beauty," with three
notes of interrogation after the last word. The lady does not
appear particularly charming, and it is probable that she had a
higher idea of her own charms than had the artist. There are
many words of praise on portraits of children, especially those of
young girls. One is called " an extraordinary child," another '• a
clever musician," a third is spoken of as "though deaf and dumb
very clever," a fourth is " sweetly pretty." The remarks are not
always complimentary, as one child is inscribed as a " tiresome
little fidget," another is " pretty, but knew it a great deal too well;"
and of a third Downman says, " If the mother had not persuaded
me I would never have drawn the child ; I had no pleasure in it."
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On three young ladies' portraits he made rather personal com-
ments ; of one he says, " Her mental and personal attractions made
numberless suitors ;" of another, " Very pretty but empty-headed ; "
and of the third, " Lovely and very good." It will be seen, there-
fore, that he was given to a very free expression of his own
opinions, but amongst the hundreds of portraits by him which we
have inspected, we have not found more than half-a-dozen on
which the comments can really be termed harsh, and in the
majority of cases the information is confined to most valuable
statements respecting family history and to kindly comments on
his sitters. There are very few of his portraits that are not
named in some way or other, and hence their great importance to
the present generation. It would seem likely that in the various
instances in which the portraits are not named they are those of
persons who were unknown to Downman himself, or of whom it
was undesirable the names should be mentioned.
By this long excursus into the question of Downman's inscrip-
tions we have interfered somewhat with the chronological survey
we were making. While the artist was in residence at Cambridge
in 1777 he sent in several portraits to the Royal Academy, but we
do not know the names of any of the persons who were represented,
with one exception. Among the five portraits of gentlemen cata-
logued under No. 104, Horace Walpole states that " one was West,
the painter;" and in Mrs. Maitland's sketch-books there are three
portraits of Benjamin West, dated that very year, on one of which
appears the following inscription: "Benjamin West, Esq., 1777,
born in March 1738, d. 1820, the great historical painter, my most
beloved teacher." It is evident from this inscription that
Downman added it to the portrait some time after he had made the
original sketch. In the following year he came up to London and
settled in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, exhibiting at the Royal
Academy every year from that down to 1819. In 1779 he left
Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and went to live at 79, St. James's
Street, where he remained until 1785, when his address was
Leicester Fields. In 1795 he became an Associate of the Royal
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Academy. He at once left Leicester Fields and moved to Fitzroy
Street, a mucli more fashionable neighbourhood, where he stayed
till 1802, going then to 116, New Bond Street. In the follow-
ing year he moved to 41, Jermyn Street, and in 1804 to 188,
Piccadilly. He then left London for a while and sojourned in
the country. During all these years the majority of pictures
sent in to the Academy were portraits, but very few of them
can now be identified. Thanks to the notes made by Horace
Walpole and other visitors to the Academy, and copied by Mr.
Algernon Graves in his invaluable work on the Royal Academy
Exhibitors, we know the names of some persons whose portraits
were sent in. In 1783 there was one of Valentine Green, the
engraver; in 1785 a portrait of Lady Euston ; in 1787 Miss Farren
and Mr. King playing in " The Heiress ; " and in the same year
portraits of the Princess Royal and of Princess Augusta. These four
were in water-colour. In the following year he exhibited portraits
of "four ladies of quality," three of whom were the Duchess
of Devonshire, the Duchess of Richmond and Lady Duncannon,
and at the same exhibition was shown his delightful drawing of
Edwin and Mrs. Wells as Lingo and Cowslip in " The Agreeable
Surprise ; " and also those of the two great actresses, Mrs.
Siddons and Miss Farren. In the following year portraits of four
children are declared as belonging to the Pelham family, and one
of the " ladies of quality " exhibited was a Mrs, Broadhead. There
was a portrait of Mr. Bland in 1792, and one of Canon Jackson in
1797; but in 1798 Downman commenced to put the names to
several of his portraits, and we find consequently that he exhibited
in that year portraits of Mrs. and Miss Burrow, Mrs. Soane,
senior. Master Soane, Miss Hicks, the two Miss Russells and Mrs.
Sinclair. In 1799 he exhibited portraits of Mr. R. Twopenny,
Mrs. Foxhall and her son, Mr. Holston, Miss Charlotte, Lady
Mulgrave, Mrs. Dudlow and her son. In the following year there
were drawings of Miss Lushington, Miss Augusta Lushington,
Mr. Keble, Mrs. Mountford, Master Smith, and Master Mitford.
In 1801 he sent in portraits of the Hon. Miss Caroline Courtenay,
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HONBLE. MRS. HARCOURT. BV JOHN DOWNMAN
SIGNED AND DATED I77Q
(Hodgkins Collection)
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who was afterwards Lady Caroline Morland, and a connection of
his own, as Dr. Hugh Downman, the physician at Exeter, had
married a Miss Andrew, first cousin of Lord Courtenay. He
also exhibited portraits of Mr. Sharpe, Lady Ward, Master
Tolson, Mr. Thomas Daniel and his nephew, William Daniel ; and
finally in 1804, the year before he left London, he sent in those of
Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Wolff, Miss Dalaval (see page 52), Miss Perfect,
the Hon. Captain Legge, and the Rev. Mr. Hill. To the last-
named portrait we shall refer again presently. These names form
a very small portion of the long list of portraits sent in during
these years, as by far the greater proportion are anonymous in
the catalogue.
The influence of his old master towards historical painting was
however still somewhat strong with Downman, and he exhibited
pictures entitled " Duke Robert" from Henry L, Fair Rosamund
from Henry II., "The Return of Orestes, from the Electra of
Sophocles," " The Ghost of Clytemnestra," " Waking the Furies,
from the Furies of .^schylus," scenes from "Tom Jones," one
from "Edwin and Emma," one from the "Merry Wives of
Windsor," one from Thomson's " Seasons," two from " Don
Quixote," one representing Lord William Russel and his wife and
children, another depicting Bacchus and Ariadne, two from scenes
in " Ossian," one which he calls " Rule Brittania," and which was
a trophy with medallions of naval heroes, and one from Hume's
History of England depicting Edward IV. on a visit to the Duchess
of Bedford. He also exhibited a scene taken from the Apocrypha,
a historical sketch to the memory of Lord Robert Manners, and a
picture of Susanna from the old ballad.
This was a very prolific period in Downman's career, and we illus-
trate a number of portraits belonging to it. In 1777 he drew the
quaint one of Mrs. Wi-ight (see page 24), in 1779 those of Mr. Dyne
(see page 25), Mrs. Harcourt (see Plate facing page xx.), and Miss
Danby (see page 41) ; in the following year Sir John Stepney (see
page 14), Miss Mills (see page 15), and Mrs. Clark (see page 24);
and a couple of years later the delightful group of Earl Temple and
xzi.
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his family (see Plate facing page xxiv.) The drawings of Mr. John
Boyd and Admiral Gell (see pages 15 and 20) belong to 1783-4,
that of Mr. Robert Grosvenor (see page 13) to 1789, and for that
year we also illustrate portraits of Mrs. Hardinge (see page 31),
and Miss Nutt (see page 32), while the specially charming
likeness of Lady Gordon, seated before a spinet (see page 56),
belongs to about the same time, bearing date 1786.
Few examples of Downman's work are more graceful in
execution or dainty in quality than this last-named work.
Mrs. Petre (see page 43) belongs to 1793; Mrs. Abbott (see
page 31) to 1794; Miss Hill, and Lord Mornington's brother.
Master Wesley (see page 30) to 1796; and finally Mr. Reid (see
page 25) is dated 1801, a very little while before Downman left
London for the country.
During all these years he seems to have had plenty of commis-
sions, and to have been prosperous. It is believed that the children
who were born before he fell into the hands of the press-gang had
died in early youth, and it is not very clear whether Downman's
wife had not also passed away before this time of prosperity. It is
possible that he married twice. In fact, it seems almost certain
that this was the case, and that Mrs. Downman, the daughter
of William Jackson, of Exeter, the musical composer, organist of
Exeter Cathedral, and whose name will always be associated
with his remarkable setting of the Te Deum (although that was
by no means his greatest work), was the artist's second wife.
The definite date of his marriage is not known to us, but probably
it was in 1778, as in that year Downman spent some time in Exeter.
His father-in-law (see page 21), generally known as Jackson of
Exeter, was then a lay vicar. He was a friend of the Sheridans,
of Samuel Rogers, and of Gainsborough ; and he it was, who set
Lycidas, Warton's Ode to Fancy, and Pope's Dying Christian to his
Soul to music, besides composing the plays known as The Lord
of the Manor, and The Metamorphosis, numerous madrigals, songs,
services, and other musical works. The wedding did not take
place in Exeter, so far as can be ascertained, perhaps by reason
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of the fact that Jackson was so well-known in the city that
a great crowd might have been expected at the ceremony.
The Christian name of Downman's wife is not known. It
seems possible that it was Elizabeth, as in the British Museum
(see page 60), is a portrait by the artist, which has hitherto been
said to represent Downman's mother, on the strength of an
inscription beneath it reading, " Mother Eliz. Downman." It is
suggested, however, that this inscription is in the handwriting of
Downman's daughter, Isabella, to whom it certainly at one time
belonged, and probably there should be a full-stop after the word
"mother." Downman's mother's Christian name was Charlotte,
as we have already seen from his portrait of her, inscribed, " My
excellent mother," and dated 1819.
John Downman
Chapter II.
IN A KENTISH VILLAGE.
IN 1804 John Downman left London and went to reside in Kent,
taking up his residence in a village which he calls "Town
Mailing," more generally known by the name of West
Mailing. He still retained a room at 188, Piccadilly, probably in
order to have a place at which he could receive his London sitters,
and where his pictures could be delivered either before they were
sent in to the Exhibition or after they had been returned. " Town
Mailing" is the principal village in the beautiful Valley of Mailing,
one of the loveliest scenes of which Kent can boast. One of the
reasons Downman had for going to reside in Mailing was the
fact that his brother, Lieut. -Col. Francis Downman, was already
living in the place, and that other members of the family had
sojourned there from time to time. There are many entries to
the Downman family in the parish register of West Mailing, as,
for example, those of the burial of Mr. Charles Downman in 1783,
the artist's uncle, who had married a Mailing lady; of Mrs. Anne
Downman, at the age of seventy-eight, in 1784, his wife ; of William
Downman in 1793; of Mrs. Lucy Downman, the wife of Major
Downman, aged thirty-two; and of Francis Downman, aged eighty-
five, in 1825. Thei'e is a monument in the churchyard to the
memory of the artist's nephew, " Lieutenant General Thomas
Downman, K.C.B., K.C.H., born March 3rd, 1778, died August
10th, 1852, who served his country faithfully for sixty years;"
and an inscription referring to his wife, Lucy Downman, who
died in 1811, on the same monument. Sir Thomas Downman's
funeral is still remembered in the place. It was one of great
pomp and ceremony, and the body was brought to West Mailing
from Chatham.
The burial register of East MaUing contains references to the
death of Mrs. Jane Downman, the artist's sister-in-law, who died in
EARL TEMPLE AND FAMILY. BY JOHN DO\VN]\L\N
SIGNED AND DATED I782
{Hoclgkins Collection)
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1800 aged forty-eight, and to Miss Emilia Elizabeth Downman,
niece, who died unmarried in 1820 at the age of forty-five.
John Downman went to reside in a house called Went House,
and it is in connection with his residence in this place, that the
third of the family recollections to which we made reference, in the
previous chapter, comes in. It is said that he spent a great part of
his time in the garden, and having always possessed considerable
affection for animals and birds, made up his mind in Mailing to
find out whether he had any influence over what we are pleased
to term the lower orders of creation. He was so successful in
the efforts he made, that he was able to tame two toads so com-
pletely, that they came to his call and would obey his orders. He
had a favourite dove, which he kept for more than twenty years,
and there were in his garden two robins which he also set himself
to tame. The result was that he was able to persuade a robin
or the dove to perch on the back of his favourite toads and to be
carried along by them. There are two of his studies of a toad in
the British Museum (see page 61), together with two studies of
robins and a sketch of a dove, and it seems most probable that these
are actually taken from the creatures to which the story refers. He
had also two very favourite cats (see page 60), which were very
much left to the care of an old housekeeper called Sally White, who
looked after his house when he was away, and who was frequently
the only servant in the place when he went down to West Mailing
for two or three days' change. The story current in the place is,
that Sally White, from being so much with the cats, became cat-like
in her own countenance ; and this story is again corroborated by
a drawing at the British Museum (see page 62), which represents
two cats on a table by which sits an old woman who has " grown
singularly cat-like in face," as Mr. Binyon remarks in his Catalogue
of the English Drawings in the print-room. The only other recollec-
tion of the artist that seems to have been preserved at West Mailing
is the statement that when he had a heavy cold, which seems to
have been pretty often the case, he used to cure it by walking about
with bare feet in long wet grass, a remedy which, it is curious to
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notice, has been revived in recent years by a German pastor, who
claimed to have first suggested this method of getting rid of a
severe cold in the head. In one of Downman's sketch-books there
is a study of two bare feet, and in the album in the British Museum
containing sketches collected by the artist's own daughter, there
is another clever study of feet (see page 61) in black chalk and
stump, on which Downman has written the following words :
"Study from my own feet — J. D." Perhaps this was executed
on one of the occasions to which we refer.
One other story of the artist may perhaps be connected with
his residence at West Mailing. He had a favourite niece, Anne
Phcebe, who was the second daughter of his brother Francis.
This girl is said on one occasion to have fallen through the skylight
of his studio down into the midst of the room, at a time, when John
Downman was there, sketching, and surrounded by several of his
sitters. We are told that the room in Went House used by him
as a studio was at the top of the house, and had a skylight, and
therefore it is possible that the accident occurred in that house.
Downman painted this niece several times, once at the age of
fifteen, when the accident is said to have occurred, and no less
than three portraits of her belong to the Misses Lee, her grand-
daughters. They also own a portrait of her husband, Richard
Debary, dated 1810.
While residing in West Mailing, Downman's niece, Jane, married
Mr. William Henry Douce, and the marriage is duly recorded in the
register for 1807. This Mr. Douce was the son of Thomas
Augustus Douce, J. P., Deputy Lieutenant for the county of
Hertfordshire, who resided at St. Leonard's, Mailing. Downman
painted his portrait in oil in 1788, when Mr. Thomas Douce was
forty-four years old. Douce died on the 13th December, 1802,
and the portrait still remains in the possession of his descendants.
It may be well here to refer briefly to Downman's work in oil.
It is not of very frequent occurrence. In the early part of his
career he seems to have painted many small oval oil portraits,
which were generally upon copper and somewhat hard and definite
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in their detail. Two such portraits from the Bemrose collection
are illustrated in this book (see pages 4 and 5), but two of the finest
works of this kind belong to the Dowager Countess of Morley, and
were executed in 1780. One of them is of Mr. Montagu Parker,
brother of the first Lord Boringdon, and the other of his wife
Charity, daughter of Admiral Paul Henry Ourry. A dozen years
later Downman executed much better work in oil, this time on
canvas, and a very typical illustration is here represented (see
page 13) by special permission of the owner, Mr. Alfred A. De Pass.
It is a fine circular portrait of Lady Delaval, of Seaton Delaval,
the mother of the Countess of Tyrconnel, who in her turn was
mother of the Marchioness of Waterford and grandmother of
Sarah, Countess of Shrewsbury and Talbot.
Downman had already been to Mailing, to paint, before he had
chosen it as his abode. The Rev. Mr. Hill, whose portrait he
exhibited in 1804, was the Vicar of East Mailing, and it is of him
that there is a sketch in Mrs. Maitland's sketch-book. It represents
him in 1803, when he was ninety-four years old. He was presented
to the living by Sir Roger Twysden, who held the patronage in
right of his wife; he was Vicar of East Mailing from 1762 to 1805,
and at the same time Vicar of Yalding. He died at East Mailing,
where he was buried. It was at Mailing also that Downman had
met the Perfects. He painted a Miss Perfect on more than one
occasion. One portrait of her was seen at the Academy in 1804,
and another will be referred to presently. The Rev. William
Perfect was Vicar of East Mailing in 1742, and the name is of
frequent occurrence in the registers. The Rector died in 1757, and
his wife in 1803, the year before the portrait of Miss Perfect
appeared at the Academy. At Mailing, Downman also made the
acquaintance of the Larking family, for whom he executed not only
a very large group, but also many separate portraits. Mr. John
Larking resided at Clare House, Mailing, and was High Sheriff for
the county. He married Dorothy (see page 45), daughter of Sir
Charles Style, Baronet, and sister of the then Sir Charles Style.
Downman drew portraits of the many members of the Larking
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family, and there are sketches still in existence of Lambert,
the eldest boy, done in 1806 (see page 54), Emily, Fanny, Camilla,
Isabella, Caroline, John, and Charles, all executed in the same
year. In the British Museum there are studies for three other
groups of the family, Mrs. Larking with Isabella and the baby
(see page 62), Lambert holding a cricket-bat and ball with his
sisters Emily and Fanny (see page 9), and (see page 8)
Camilla, Caroline and John standing together holding their
favourite dog. Then in the Maitland collection there is the
portrait of Mrs. Larking herself, and a study for the complete
portrait of the mother and her eight children with the dog.
The eldest son became Vicar of Ryarsh, a village close to Mailing,
He was born in 1797, and died in 1868 at the age of seventy-one,
having been thirty-seven years Vicar of the paricjh. This clergyman
deserves more than a passing notice, because he was founder of the
Kent Archaeological Society. To him Kent owes her pre-eminent
rank among the counties for her accurate researches into the past.
He indexed the "feet of fines," and the "inquisition after death"
records for the Society, and contributed many valuable papers to
its proceedings. He is also noteworthy for having planted the red
cedars, some limes, some Turkey oaks, and some tulip trees in the
gardens at Ryarsh, which still flourish there, and for his careful
observation of the habits of birds.
Here again local tradition is corroborated in an interesting
manner, as the tradition in the Larking family is that Lambert
acquired all his interests in birds and animals from the quiet
solemn old artist who painted his portrait when he was a
little boy. There can be little doubt that this phrase refers to
John Downman. It seems to be almost the only remaining
reminiscence respecting his character or appearance. It is well
borne out by his portrait of himself (see page 51), done in 1813, a
drawing of a quiet, serious person, and inscribed by the artist as
follows: "John Downman, limner, the author, 1813." The same
thoughtful countenance can be recognised in a wash-drawing
of Downman, which he is said to have executed towards middle
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age, to show how he would have looked as a boy in the costume
worn in the early nineteenth century. The little sketch,
reproduced in this volume (see page 9), is now the property of the
author, and appears to be the only youthful portrait of Downman
handed down to his successors.
The Rev. Lambert Larking married Frances, daughter of Sir
William Jervoise Twysden, of Royden Hall, East Peckham, Kent.
Downman painted portraits of several of the Twysden family,
including Sir William and his wife. The first Sir William
was one of the earliest baronets; his son, Sir Roger, was a
great antiquary and historian, and the brother of Sir Roger was
Sir Thomas Twisden, of Bradbourne Park, East Mailing. This
man had changed his name from Twysden to Twisden on being
made a Baronet by Charles H. as a reward for trying the regicides,
in order to avoid confusion between his family and his brothers, as
they were near neighbours. The Twysden family is now extinct, but
the Twisden's are still at Bradbourne, although their head is not
claiming the baronetcy. Downman also painted Lady Twisden in
1804 with her daughter Mrs. Massingbird. There were other
Mailing persons amongst his sitters. He drew a portrait, for
instance, of Mrs. Smith, of West Mailing, and declares her to have
been "early a widow with a family which she well managed." A
Mr. William Bowles is another of his Mailing sitters, and it was
when he was in residence in Kent that he painted Sir Charles
Middleton, of Teston, who afterwards became Lord Barham, and
also Mrs. Dudlow with her son John, Mrs. Foxhall with her son,
Mr. Douce with his three sons, and George Drummond the
banker, when he came to stay at St. Leonard's Tower. Just
before he had left for Kent, Downman had a visit from Lord
Nelson at his rooms in Piccadilly, and painted his portrait (see
page 51), which, however, was not exhibited at the Royal
Academy until seven years afterwards.
John Downman
Chapter III.
THE WEST OF ENGLAND.
IN 1806 Downman left Kent and went away for a couple of years
into the West of England, settling first of all at Plymouth
and then moving on to Exeter, to stay with a distant cousin.
As we have already mentioned, the Downmans were originally a
West Country family of some considerable importance in their time.
In the collection of Sir Robert Cunliffe was an illuminated parchment,
now in the British Museum (see page 62), with the family achieve-
ment, and the arms are thus emblazoned : " The arms of the antient
family of Downman, sable a cross or, in chief a bird and a text tau ;
in base two crescents argent ; mantled gules, doubled argent."
Hugh Downman, the artist's remote cousin, was then in practice
as a physician at Exeter. He was born at Newton St. Cyres in
1740, educated at Exeter School and at Balliol, and was ordained
in 1763, but gave up divinity for medicine. He published some
poems, the best known of which was entitled " Infancy : or the
Management of Children," and some plays, a few of which were
presented on the stage. He married Frances, daughter of John
Andrew, M.D., of Exeter, by Isabella, daughter of Sir William
Courtenay, second baronet, and sister of the first Viscount
Courtenay. He retired from his profession in 1805, and died on
the 23rd September, 1809.
Hugh Downman's sister, Maria, who died in 1826 at the age
of eighty, married John Richards of Edmonton (1737-1819), and
her descendants are still living. There is a good deal of con-
troversy regarding the Devonshire Downmans, and it is not easy
to arrive at the connection between the artist's family and the
Downmans of Devonshire. Their pedigree does not appear to have
been very clearly made out, and we only know of them from Down-
man's drawings of various detached members of the family, such, for
example, as Admiral Downman, who was born at Plympton, in
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1764, and who had a son born in 1804, and a daughter, Caroline,
who married Edward Hale, of Hambledon, Hants.
Downman had painted Hugh Downman's portrait in 1796 (see
page 10), and it was with him and his wife, who, we have already
seen, was first cousin to Lord Courtenay (see page 11), that the
artist went first to reside. This was not, of course, his first visit
to Exeter, as in 1778, when he was courting his wife, he was
frequently in the city, and in that year painted portraits of the
father and mother (see page 20), of Dr. Hugh Downman,
whom he speaks of as old Mr. Downman of Alphington Cot near
Exeter, and of the doctor and his wife. On the occasion of this
visit he also painted old Mr. and Mrs. Nation and their son, Mr.
Webber, a merchant. Miss Fell, Master Green, Mr. and Mrs.
Montagu Parker of White Way, and several other local cele-
brities. The fact of his having come from a Devonshire family so
well known about Exeter had always given him a certain vogue
with West Country people, and the sketch-books contain drawings
of very many Devonshire persons who probably when in London
preferred to sit to a Devonshire man ; or, for all we know, Down-
man may have made periodic visits to the city whence he had
married his wife. There are portraits of Mr. and Mrs. and Miss
Bulteel and several children, of Lynham House, Devonshire, and
of Mr. Bulteel's son and niece (see pages 23, 26, 40 and 50), of
Colonel Trevor of the Sussex Militia at Exeter, and of the Rev.
Mr. Toogood, of Exeter, " called the western apostle." In the
year to which we are referring Downman was able to add con-
siderably to his list of West Country sitters. Then it was that he
painted General Sir George Nugent, at that time commanding the
western district, with Lady Nugent, their two children and their
nurse, and executed separate portraits of each of them and a
sketch of their infant son who died, and whom he delineated as an
" angel asleep in a church ; " portraits of Mrs. Braddyll with her
three daughters, of Mrs. Hall, of Sir Harry and Lady Neale, of Sir
Samuel and Lady Head, of Mrs. Robinson, sister of Lady Nugent,
of Mr. Woolcombe, of Plymouth, Captain and Mrs. Elphinstone
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and their two daughters, of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Louis, of Mrs.
Trevellian, of Miss Beciiworth, of Mrs. King and her child, of Mrs.
Collings, Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Luce and Mrs. Trant. All these belong
to this period ; and the portraits exhibited at the Royal Academy
include those of the Rev. Mr. Whitelock, Miss Holmes, Captain
and Mrs. Downman, John England, Captain and Mrs. Elphinstone,
Lady Boringdon, Mrs. Travanion (see Plate facing page xl.) and
Miss Betsworth.
In 1807 Downman was back again in London, having given up
his rooms in Piccadilly and taken chambers at 20, John Street,
Adelphi. In that year the only picture he was able to send to the
Royal Academy was the large Larking group already alluded to,
representing " Mrs. Larking and her nine children," and now in
the possession of Mr. Akers-Douglas. It is possible that another
baby had arrived by this time, but in the sketch-books there are
only sketches of eight children, including Charles, who is declared
to have been an infant in 1806. There were nine figures, certainly,
in the portrait according to the sketches, but one of those
was a dog, and perhaps the error is in the numbering at the
Royal Academy. In the following year Downman is represented
at the Royal Academy by two works only. One he calls " Salvator
Mundi," and the other, " Miss Randalls, represented as the infant
St. Cecilia." The next year is notable for the commission given
to Downman by the Duke of Richmond for a picture called the
" Grape House." It is unfortunate that this picture appears to be
no longer in existence, as there is no work by Downman to which
there are so many contemporary references as to this one. By
some persons it is spoken of as the decoration or scenery of a
grape-house, and it has been suggested that it was a series of
portraits intended to be hung in a sort of winter garden ; but this
is not very likely to have been the case. Downman himself
describes the picture as " The Grape House," following the name
with these four lines :
" Five nymphs the mansion of Eudoxus bred,
Who every sense possessed ; by virtue led.
Engag'd in elegant and useful arts;
But most their grape-house produce won all hearts."
FREDERICK THE GREAT, KING OF PRUSSIA.
BY JOHN DOWNMAN
SIGNED
{Hotigkitis Collection)
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Walpole speaks of it as " a charming picture, quite lovely ; " and
a sketch-book reveals to us who three of the five nymphs w^ere,
besides allowing us to guess the name of the fourth. It contains
the portraits of Lucy Perfect, 1809, "for the grape-house,"
Isabella, CD. 1809, " for the grape-house," Margaret Holmes, 1809;
and Peggy Cooper, 1809, afterwards Mrs. Baines, of Eltham (see
page xl.), who was probably the fourth of the five beautiful girls.
The Isabella CD. is undoubtedly Downman's own daughter, Isa-
bella Chloe (see page 59), to whose affectionate care of her father's
rough sketches we owe the fact that the album from the Cunliffe
Collection is still in existence and preserved at the British
Museum. Isabella had two brothers, and this sketch-book
contains a drawing of a boy done in black chalk and stump and a
little red chalk, inscribed in the artist's handwriting " son of John
Downman's, by J. D. " (see page 60), and another portrait of a
boy with dog (see page 59), marked "C.J.D." These three
sketches (pages 59 and 60) give us the portraits of the
artist's three children by his second wife, Isabella Chloe, to
whom we refer later on; Charles J., who was lost at sea, and
Damon, who died young.
The other exhibits at the Royal Academy at about this time were
the portraits of Lord Nelson and "a lady" sent in in 1809, those
of Sir George and Lady Nugent, Mrs. Hay, Mrs. Davis, Lord
Barham, Lord Boringdon, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, the
Poetry Professor at Oxford, Miss Dudlow, Mrs. Bowles, Mr.
Clutterbuck and Mrs. Rowan, together with an anonymous portrait
and two figure subjects, one called "A girl with an ague," and the
other " Cupid's venture on the wave."
John Downman
Chapter IV.
THE LAST DAYS.
WE now approach the last few years of Downman's
artistic career. He was at this time full of work,
and, although residing for the most part at 41,
Leicester Square, his services were in constant demand at the
various country houses of England, and his portraits highly
esteemed and very popular. Early in 1811 he was called down
to Alnwick Castle, where he drew a picture of Hugh, Lord Percy,
the eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland (now in the
possession of Capt. H. Terry), and besides preparing three
replicas of it for different members of the family, also painted
a half-length figure in uniform of the same young man.
While at Alnwick he drew the portrait of Colonel David
Smith, the duke's principal steward, and of Mr. Robinson, one
of his chief tenants. A little while after that he went on to
Langdon Grange, near Raby Castle, and drew a portrait of the
Earl of Darlington and another of Mrs. Russell, who shortly
afterwards became Countess of Darlington. On that occasion he
also prepared a drawing of Lord Darlington's steward, Mr. Scarth,
of Standrop. At Langdon he appears to have met Southey, the
Poet Laureate, whose portrait he drew. Other of the houses at
which he visited were Cliffe, the seat of the Witham family, where
he drew two portraits of Mr. Henry Witham (see page 55) and one
of his wife ; and Crofton Hall in Cumberland, where he made two
portraits of Miss Mangnall, who will be remembered for her educa-
tional works, and one of Miss Fayrer, her great friend. He was
also heard of in Durham, drawing portraits of Mrs. Hooper, Mr.
Ebdon, and Mrs. Tyrell ; at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he executed
the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. and Miss Parker, Mr.
Thomas Maude, the banker, and Miss Irwin, who kept a well-
known girls' school. He went to Sunderland to make a drawing
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of a Mrs. Wright after her death, at the urgent request of her son ;
and he was at Wakefield painting the portraits of Mr. and Mrs.
Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Maude, Mr. Lee, the solicitor,
and Mr. Vavasour. Before he left the North he went to Stanstead
Park and painted two portraits of Mr. Lewis Way, whom he styles
" the great converter of the Jews to Christianity." He also
painted Mrs. Way, who was a Miss Drew, and their four children,
Drusila, Albert, afterwards the founder of the Archaeological
Institute, Anna, who became Mrs. Wise, and Olivia, who married
Mr. Kennaway. Mr. Lewis Way seems to have recommended
him to his brother, the Rev. William Way, of Glinston Park, an
eccentric person who played at backgammon from Wednesday
morning till Saturday night, as we have already mentioned, and
who, according to another of Downman's notes, was " fond of
making Latin speeches which he sometimes rehearsed at the cover
side." Downman painted a third member of this family, Mr.
Benjamin Way (see page 14), of Denham House, the elder brother
of Lewis and William, and Mrs. Way and their children (see pages
21, 29 and 35), their friend. Miss West, and Mrs. William Way.
Other North Country commissions were for the portraits of Mr.
and Mrs. Nicholson, of Bishop Wearmouth, and of Mr. Nicholson's
mother and sister then at Wakefield. We must not overlook the
portraits of Mary, Countess of Erne, with her daughter, after-
wards Lady Wharncliffe (see page 6) ; of Elizabeth, Lady
Templetown (see page 7), both unusually fine drawings ; of Peter
Robert Burrell, when two years old, afterwards 2nd Lord
Gwydyr and 19th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (see page 8); of
Lady Elizabeth Smythe, the daughter of the Duke of Grafton ; of
Mr. and Miss Heywood, of Stanley Hall, of Mrs. Jones, the
married daughter of Mr. Heywood, of Mrs. Gaskil, another married
daughter, whose husband, Daniel Gaskil, Downman also painted,
and whom he styles "a great Radical" (see page 55), and several
other persons in that district, including Mr. and Mrs. Tod
Naylor, Mr. Ridsdale, and Mr. Turner, who was staying with Mr.
Naylor.
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The portraits exhibited at this time were but few. In 1812
Downman sent in one only, that of Lady Smythe, and then for
four years appears to have been too busy to exhibit. In 1816 five
pictures were shown, portraits of Mrs. Warren Lamb, Earl Percy,
Dr. Burgess, Bishop of St. David's, Lord Darlington, and the Poet
Laureate. In 1817 only one picture was sent in, and by this time
Downman, who for a few months had chambers at 16, Henrietta
Street, had finally relinquished rooms in London. His work lay
all over the country, and therefore in the Catalogue of the Royal
Academy Exhibition he gave " England" as his only address. In
the following year he settled down at Chester, where he resided
in a small cottage at Eccleston, a little way outside the city ; but
his long journeys were now coming to an end, and the majority of
his works belonging to this period of his life are those of persons
at or near to Chester. We find portraits recorded of Mr. and Mrs.
Baxter, of Dee Vale, Chester, Mr. and Mrs. George Cuett, of the
same city, and Mr. Thomas Harrison, the architect. This latter
picture was the only one he exhibited in 1818. In the following
year he sent in his last picture to the Royal Academy, a curious
symbolical subject which he calls by a somewhat lengthy title,
"A late Princess personifying Peace crowning the Glory of
England reflected on Europe, 1815. 'Hail, lovely Peace I in
glory spread thy arms.' "
While living at Chester Downman's only daughter married a
solicitor of that city. The wedding took place at Wrexham,
where the artist had finally settled down, quite close to his birth-
place. His two sons had pre-deceased him ; now his daughter
settled down in Chester and the old artist was left alone. The
wedding took place on the 29th May, 1817, between Isabella Chloe
Downman and Richard Mellor Benjamin. This Mr. Benjamin
was a descendant of John Mellor, a merchant at one time living
in Kirby Street, Covent Garden, but who in 1788 had removed
to Pen-y-Bryn, Wrexham. He was lessee of the Town Hall and
owner of considerable property in the place, most of which had
come to him from his wife Judith, the daughter of a Mr. Joseph
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Jackson, a draper of Wrexham. Mr. Mellor's daughter, Sophia
Bruen Mellor, married Richard Benjamin, of Rhosnessney Farm,
Erlas, and her son was the Richard Mellor Benjamin, solicitor
(1794-1823), of Chester Street, who married Downman's daughter.
Benjamin's father was a man of extraordinary strength, and
he is still remembered in the district. Close to Pen-y-Bryn
was a large smithy into which he often used to go, asking
the men whether they could hurl the big hammer and bring
it down noiselessly on the anvil. He used to challenge them
to do it, and when they failed took the hammer himself and
was able to do almost anything with it, as though it was a piece
of wood in his hands. The opportunity of showing off his strength
was very dear to him, and he invariably finished the challenge by
throwing down a shilling or two to the men and bidding them go
and "get something that would increase their strength." His
son, Richard Mellor Benjamin, was unfortunately a spendthrift, and
had been leading a fast life before he married Isabella Downman.
More than one child in Wrexham had claimed him as its father.
For a while he made a fairly comfortable home for his father-in-
law, whose means by this time had become very much reduced.
Downman had never been provident, and had spent freely the
money he so readily earned, with the result that when his work
had ceased to be popular, and other artists were obtaining the
commissions that at one time came so readily to him, he had very
little to fall back upon, and was glad to make a home with his
married daughter. When the wedding first took place the
Benjamins were in possession of a good deal of property in
Wi'exham, most of which had come from the Mellors, but the
father got rid of a good deal of it and the son of much of the
remainder; although, as far as can be ascertained, during the
time that Downman lived with them their circumstances were
comfortable. Mrs. Benjamin had four children, Hannah Isabella,
baptised April 2nd, 1818, buried October 19th, 1836, at Wrexham ;
Richard John Downman, baptised July 17th, 1819; Richard,
baptised May 17th, 1820, believed to have died in infancy, and
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Francis, buried April 23rd, 1822, aged nine months. We are
unable to state when the second son died, but, according to the
story in Wrexham, he was drowned close to the town when
quite a boy.
John Downman died in 1824, on the 24th December, and was
buried at Wrexham, where a monument still stands to his memory.
Richard Mellor Benjamin died in a drunken fit in the Beast Market
at Wrexham, on Nov. 24th, 1823, and Downman's daughter was
left a widow just before her father's death. She died on the
17th July, 1840, and was buried July 22nd in the same tomb
with her father. The inscription on the tomb is as follows :
" Sacred to the memory of John Downman, Esquire, member
of the Royal Academy, London, who departed this life 24th day
of December, 1824, aged 74. Also Isabella Chloe Benjamin,
daughter of the above, who departed this life July 17th, 1840,
aged 43 years." She sold to Sir Roger Cunliffe, at Acton Hall,
near Wrexham, such portraits and drawings as she had been
able to retain, but the bulk of her father's sketch-books he
had already given to his nieces with the intention that they should
be kept out of the hands of his daughter's spendthrift husband.
It did not appear to occur to him that the Benjamin property
might so melt away that his only daughter would have to dispose
of the sketches left in her hands for her sustenance. There are
no Benjamins now left in Wrexham, nor, as far as we can find
out, any descendant either from that family or from the Downman
family. An old sexton, however, who died some few years ago
when we were making inquiries, and who at that time was a man
of nearly ninety, had recollections of Downman. He spoke of him
as a very quiet, simple-hearted old man, but one who, like his
brother Francis, was possessed of a very hot temper, which he
had for years kept under strict control. During the last two
years of his life, however, he was bitterly taunted by some-
one in the town on account of a certain discreditable
rumour regarding his second marriage, which this unknown
person had heard and insisted was true. The whole object of
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the taunt, it was openly confessed, was to make the old man
angry, but no one realised at the time how furious his anger could
be. He was aroused at last, and, after a torrent of strong words,
challenged his opponent to fight a duel with him. The meeting
was arranged and the opponents met, but by this time Downman
had recovered control of his temper and was bitterly regretful of
having committed himself to such an extent. The sexton's story
goes on to state that, although the artist was the aggrieved
person, and the rumour had no foundation in fact, he made
amends so handsomely and offered his apologies in such won-
derful language, that he melted the heart of the person, who
had been taunting him — the two men shook hands and were
close friends during the remaining year or two of Downman's life.
The story was well known in the place, and when the artist died
a number of the rougher sort of people, followed the funeral pro-
cession, as an expression of their admiration for a man capable of
such high sentiments. This seems to be the only story con-
cerning Downman which has been remembered in the place, but
there was plenty to be learned concerning the habits of his
son-in-law, and of the manner in which his extravagances had
reduced his widow's means down to a very narrow limit.
There are several persons still living who bear the name of
Downman, but most of them have descended from the Devonshire
stock of the family. Some still add the name of Courtenay to that
of Downman, and are descendants from Dr. Hugh Downman,
whose wife was Lord Courtenay's cousin.
There are, however, many persons still living descended from the
artist's brother, Francis, grandchildren of his son. Sir Thomas
Downman, and of his daughter Phoebe, who married Richard
Debary. It is to one of Phoebe's grand-daughters. Miss Catherine
Lee, that we are so much indebted for various pieces of family
history, and for the pedigree attached to this book.
The name of only one of Downman's personal friends seems to
have been handed down. We refer to Richard Cooper, the line
engraver (1730-1820). He was a much older man than Downman,
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but they appear to have been on terms of intimate acquaintance,
and the artist painted a good portrait in oils of his friend, which
now belongs to Cooper's great grand-daughter. Miss Baines. In
the Maitland sketch-books is a portrait of Cooper's daughter,
known as " pretty Peggy Cooper," and afterwards as the wife of
Mr. Ralph (see page xxxiii.), and there is a charming drawing in the
possession of one of John Downman's descendants, attributed
either to the artist or to his daughter and depicting this same child
with her little sister in out-of-door costume, large felt hats, granny
muffs and cloaks trimmed with fur. Cooper's plates were princi-
pally portraits, and he also engraved some very satisfactory
reproductions of pictures by Van Dyck, Rubens, Correggio, and
others, but is perhaps best known by his engraving of the Chandos
portrait of Shakespeare, and by his portraits of Sir John Napier
and Allan Ramsay.
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MRS. TREVANION. BY JOHN DOWNMAN
SIGNED AND DATED
(Hodgkins Collection]
His Life and Works
Chapter V.
THE ART OF DOWNAIAN.
THE work of Dovvnman can be grouped under two headings,
his drawings in pencil or wash and his work in oil. His
portraits in oil are not often seen. The early ones were
small ovals, painted, for the most part, on copper (see pages
4 and 5), the later ones larger ovals or circles (see page 13),
and either on copper or on canvas, generally on the former.
All his work in oil is much harder in technique and definite in
character than are his drawings. The colouring is rich and
subdued in tone, the figures generally represented in profile
and well composed, the background as a rule a landscape, and
there is generally a large tree behind the figure. The artist is,
however, more generally known for his dainty pencil and wash
portrait drawings, exceedingly clever pieces of portraiture, lightly
and gracefully sketched and tinged with very charming colour.
They are, as a rule, drawn on very thin paper in black chalk with a
very fine point, the shadows put in with a stump. The hair is
slightly coloured, as are also the eyes and the lips, the cheeks
slightly tinted, and in many instances the whole of the colour is put
in at the back and shows through the thin paper. This is by no
means invariably the case, but it is a characteristic specially
marking the works done between 1780 and 1800. These drawings
are marked by particular refinement and adroitness. They are
very frequently in profile, and the ladies, as a rule, represented in
white costumes, often wearing high, elaborate white muslin caps
with coloured ribbons. The background is a stormy sky or a faint
wash of colour, and the drawings are almost always oval and
represent the sitter to the waist, well composed in the centre of the
oval. A combination of two or more figures is exceedingly rare ;
the most remarkable instance of it being seen in the large drawing
at Ickworth belonging to the Marquis of Bristol, which is said to
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have been the largest Downman ever executed. It represents the
Duchess of Devonshire and her friend Lady Elizabeth Foster, who
was her successor (see page 19). Another very important group
is the one portraying Edwin and Mrs. Wells as Lingo and Cowslip,
now in the possession of Mr. Hodgkins (see page 33), and
perhaps one of Downman's most refined and delightful drawings.
One of the largest single drawings Downman ever executed
is the one of Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire, now belonging
to the Duke of Devonshire. The head only was engraved by CoUyer
(see page 27). In the majority of cases the tinting is done
by water-colour, the rest of the drawing being chalk and stump
work, but in some cases the colour on the cheeks and lips is
done with red chalk instead of water-colour, and many of the
drawings are in charcoal and stump rather than in chalk and
stump, and touched with red and black chalks. Some of the
studies done for larger pictures are in sepia over charcoal with red
chalk or water-colour applied to the flesh. Others are in sepia
wash with pen-work, and others again in pen-and-ink or in coloured
chalks with stump and yellow ochre wash.
Downman was specially successful with portraits of children,
grouping them with consummate skill, and entering into all their
sense of fun and frolic. His children are never undergrown adults,
as are so often the children of a less capable painter, but are true
children in every respect — bright, happy, cheerful, and amusing or
demure, thoughtful and serious. It was evidently a delight to
Downman to paint portraits of children ; this can be seen in a
moment by reason of the life he put into such works, and the way
in which they were rendered so easily and with such grace. It is
well to draw attention to some of our illustrations of children as
evidence of this and especially to pages 12, 29, 32, 34, 35, 36, 39
and 44.
Many of them, of course, are no more than free sketches, but
we have specially selected several such, in order that we may
exemplify Downman's manner of sketching, and his ability in a
very few bold strokes, to set before us all that he wanted of
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the character and expression of the child, and to make it a portrait
convincing in its accuracy and truth.
His drawings of actresses are also notable for their skill, as here
again it was character he strove to delineate — piquancy, grace,
elegance — and his work was highly esteemed by those persons who
sat to him, and who were no mean critics of what they desired and
expected. Almost all Downman's portraits of actresses were
engraved, and that of itself is evidence of their success. We
would in this respect direct attention to pages 12, 17, 33, 37,
and 47.
The great characteristic of Downman's work is to be found in
the notes appended to his drawings, very many of which have been
referred to in foregoing chapters. As a rule, they are quite brief,
but there are instances of more lengthy notes, as, for example,
the following one of two portraits he did of Queen Charlotte
(see Plate facing page viii.). He has thus written : " Her Majesty
of England, 1783 ; first sitting. She was Sophia Charlotte, Princess
of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She sat in the Queen's Closet,
Buckingham Palace. His Majesty came in with Lords North
and Grantham, and two others. Presently the two eldest Prin-
cesses. The King said to the Princess Royal, ' Are you also
prepared to sit ? ' This turned all eyes to her, as she was directly
opposite the light, and occasioned a most beautiful suffusion
of bloom I ever saw, and they certainly were at that time two of
the most beautiful of persons. I also drew their portraits and
grouped in whole lengths, and a whole length of the Queen for the
Duchess of Ancaster, and two others." On a similar drawing of
Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire, is the following note: "Devon-
shire House, 1784. Original study for a whole length with Lady
Elizabeth Foster. The Prince of Wales came there ; present also
Lady Duncannon, who, in play, followed him with a chair to sit,
which he declined. A French prelate was introduced, who kissed
the inside of Lady Elizabeth Foster's hand ; and when gone the
Prince noticed the odd action with much humour. Presently,
Blanchard was announced, having just descended from his balloon."
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On one of Lady Georgina Bertie, afterwards Marchioness of Chol-
mondelay, Downman has written: "Lady Georgina Charlotte
Bertie (Lindsey), 1784. Original study for a whole length ; only
sister of Lord Willoughby. The Dowager Duchess, her mother,
present, said, ' It is very like her, D , but I think the mouth
should be shut.' I drew two of these, and the Duchess." These
characteristic notes give historical value to the drawings of
Downman. They introduce us right into the presence of his sitters,
and afford us little interesting pieces of information respecting
their family and their habits.
Towards the middle of Downman's career he decided to attempt
miniature painting, and is said to have produced about half a dozen
portraits, one of which has passed into the possession of the
author (see page 1). He is stated to have relinquished the
work because it took up too much of his time and was too
great a strain upon his eyesight ; but the special feature
of his pencil-drawing, the fact that the work is done with
a very fine point and the shadows represented in wash or
stump, can also be realised when his miniatures are ex-
amined, and anyone conversant with Downman's portrait
drawings would readily distinguish his miniatures from those
executed by any other artist. He never exhibited any miniatures,
nor did he sign any of them on the face. All of these experimental
portraits he executed on ivory. More than one miniature bearing
the initials " J.D. " have been claimed as his work, but it must be
given to quite another artist, John Daye, who signed in this way.
Miniature work by Downman was never more than an experiment
or recreation, and this fact gives to a miniature portrait by him a
peculiar and very special value.
Not many of his historical and fancy subjects have survived to
the present time. They were probably of no special importance,
and in all probability were not works which could claim to repre-
sent his genius to an adequate extent. One example can be seen
at South Kensington illustrating a poem by Benjamin Isaac
D'Israeli, and called " The Sybarite."
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He painted several large groups in oil, but it has not been found
possible at present to reproduce either of them. The one of the
Larking family was probably his most important work in this
respect. For it he made a great many studies, and drew separate
portraits of each of the persons contained in the group. There are
many sketches for his fancy and historical pictures in the sketch-
book preserved at the British Museum.
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Chapter VI.
ON THE VALUE OF WORKS BY DOWNMAN.
ONE of the first persons to attach artistic importance to
the drawings of Downman was the late Mr. Bernard
Quaritch, of Piccadilly, and we remember his telling
us that when, as a young man, he first set up in business, the
only pictures he had in his little shop for sale were a series of
portrait drawings by this talented artist. He filled one small
window with them, but no one was attracted, and although the
prices he placed upon the works of Downman were exceedingly
small, he was unable to sell a single one of the tinted drawings.
He very soon, as is well known, made for himself a great name
in connection with rare books, but his artistic venture he never
repeated, for he was disgusted with the apathy of the British public
as revealed in his first venture. For many years he retained more
than a dozen works by Downman, which had been amongst his
very earliest purchases, but at length disposed of them to an
American collector in about 1890, and prophesied that before
many years were over the English public would wake up to a
knowledge of the beauty of these drawings, and that their value
would go up by leaps and bounds. A few years afterwards (to
speak exactly, in May, 1893), the Hon. Mrs. James Stuart Wortley
determined that a loan exhibition of the works of Downman should
be added to the annual show of the Amateur Art Society. It was
to be held, on that occasion, at 18, Carlton House Terrace, and
she obtained the loan of a dozen fine examples of Downman's
work from Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, who had always been
one of the few admirers of Downman, and had in his time formed
a large collection of his works ; and four frames of drawings from
Sir Robert CunlifTe. These were the nucleus of the little show,
but having obtained them Mrs. Wortley set to work to gather in
others, and, hearing of the famous series of sketch-books to which
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such constant reference has been made in this volume, she made
strong efforts to obtain the loan of them, and a few volumes
were lent her by Mrs. Maitland. Other collectors followed with
promises of assistance, and the author was asked by his old friend
to assist in compiling a catalogue. This was his first introduction
to the work of Downman, and in that respect he did not stand
alone, as numbers of persons who visited the exhibition had
known nothing of the work of this artist before that time, and
all who saw the portraits were struck with their beauty, charm,
and fascination. We count, therefore, the revival of the vogue
of Downman to have commenced from that exhibition, but it was
not until the American collector, with his unbounded command
of means, entered the market and set to work to acquire the best
examples of Downman's portraits, that the price of his pictures
began to assume anything like a serious character. For many
years the portraits could be bought for a few pounds each, and
even that was a great advance upon the prices of 1860 and 1870,
when a very fair portrait by the artist could have been acquired
for half-a-sovereign. Now, however, the values have assumed a
very different figure. The record was touched at Christie's in
1906, when the group of Edwin and Mrs. Wells in " The Agreeable
Surprise" brought 820 guineas. Since then a pair of portraits of
General and Miss Hodgson have fetched 580 guineas, one of Miss
Kemble, 490 guineas, Mrs. Wright, 165 guineas, Mrs. Francis
Petre, 170 guineas, Miss Nott, 350 guineas. Miss Mary Cruik-
shank, 230 guineas, Lady E. Compton, 160 guineas, the Duchess
of Rutland, 155 guineas, Admiral Affleck, 100 guineas, and Mr.
Francis Wright, 58 guineas. It may, therefore, be taken as a
rule that a portrait of a man by Downman is now worth from
60 to 100 pounds, while that of a beautiful lady may range from
100 pounds up to four hundred, and for one of Downman's
very rare groups, perfectly composed and charmingly coloured,
almost any price up to £1,000 may be anticipated.
The same rise in value has attended the engravings after
Downman, especially those printed in colour. The stipple
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engravings could, a few years ago, have been bought for as many
shillings as they now realise pounds, but the coloured prints have
attained far higher prices than their plainer brethren. A fine
print of Lady E. Foster has fetched £61, two of Miss Farren (see
page 47) and Mrs. Siddons realised £57 (see pages 12 and 37),
one of Lady E. Lambart £31 10s. (see page 53), while the
Duchess of Devonshire, engraved by Bartolozzi, attained the
price of £62, and Lady Duncannon, a proof before letters, £41.
A fine impression of a plain print of Miss Farren fetched £8 15s.,
but a print of specially fine quality £32 lis., and an open letter-
proof of Mrs. BiUington £36 15s. It must always of course be
borne in mind that these sensational prices are obtained for
perfect and picked impressions, where the margins are in satis-
factory condition, and the print in such a state as to attract the
attention of the collector prepared at all costs to secure the
finest impressions. It is unsafe to argue from them that any
print after Downman is of considerable value, especially as there
are some that can readily be acquired for less than a sovereign
apiece, but for very choice engravings, especially for those in
colour, the collector is ready to pay almost any price.
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List ot Portraits.
Complete List of Portraits in the Sketch Books
from Butleigh Court.
N.B. — Downman's original spelling is retained tliroughout these lists.
SECOND SERIES
Volume the First.
9.
10.
11.
14.
15.
16.
17.
John Hinchcliffe, D.D., Bishop of Peterborough,
and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1777.
Mrs. Hinchcliffe, the Bishop's Lady, 1777, Sister
of John Crewe, Esq., M.P.
Another of Mrs. Hinchcliffe, 1777.
Miss Hinchcliffe, the Bishop's Daughter, 1777.
John Crewe, Esq., of Crewe Hall, Cheshire, M.P.
1777, afterwards Lord Crewe.
Another of Mr. Crewe, 1777.
Mrs. Crewe, his Lady, 1777. She was Frances
Ann GreviUe.
Miss Crewe, his Daughter, 1777. She was after-
wards Mrs. Cunliffe. Copy from Sir Joshua
Reynolds.
Colonel Crewe, his Brother, 1778.
Rev. Sir Stephen Glynne, 1777, on a visit to Mr.
Crewe, at , near Cambridge.
George Henry Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, 1777, of
Trinity College, for Sir Thomas Beauchamp,
heir apparent to the Duke of Grafton.
Another of Lord Euston, 1777.
Sir Thomas Beauchamp Proctor, Baronet, 1777,
of Christ's College, Cambridge, for Lord
Euston.
Mr. Fountain, Fellow Commoner of
College, 1777, son of the Dean of YorU.
Mrs. Watson, 1777, Lady of Richard Watson, D. D.,
F.R.S., Professor of Divinity to the University,
Bishop of Llandaff, &c.
Mr. Holdsworth, Fellow Commoner of Trinity
College, 1777, and of , near Dartmouth,
Devon.
Doctor Lort, of Trinity College, of great character,
1777. Painted three of this, one for Dr. Por-
teous, the Bishop of Chester, who I also drew.
18. Mr. Randolph, of King's College, 1777, became an
excellent Divine.
19. Mr. Steed, Fellow Commoner of College,
1777.
20. The Lady of John Mortlock, Esq., Banker, at
Cambridge, 1777, painted large as life, grouped
with her son ; also painted a half-length of her
husband, as companion ; mother of the wife of
Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln, and Master of Christ's
College.
21. The Lady of Archibald Hamilton, Esq., 1777,
painted the size of life, half-length. She was
Miss Rebecca, second daughter of Governor
Dinwiddle.
22. The brother of Archibald Hamilton, Esq., lost at
sea.
23. William Greaves, of Tulborn, 1778, Commissary
of the University.
24. Another of Commissary Greaves, 1778.
25. Miss Barnardiston, daughter of the Master of
Bene't College, John Barnardiston, D.D.,
Principal Librarian.
26. Mrs. Richards, Lady of, 1778.
27. John Richards, Esq., of Hambleton, Hants, 1778.
28. Mr. Bridgeman, Fellow Commoner of Trinity
College, 1777, eldest son of Sir Henry Bridge-
man, Bart., whose untimely death was much
lamented. I also drew his two brothers and
two sisters.
29. Mr. Ford, Fellow Commoner, of St. John's
College, Cambridge, 1777.
30. Another of Mr. Ford, 1777.
li.
John Downman
SECOND SERIES
Volume the Second.
1. George John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, at
Trinity College, 1777, only son of Earl Spencer.
I painted two of this.
2. Mr. Kynneston, the elder, at College, 1777, from
Shropshire. " Sir John Kynaston Powell."
3. Mr. Kynneston, the younger brother, at College,
1777, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire. " Sir
John Kynaston."
4. George Wolffe, Esq., the great Danish merchant
and Consul, 1777 ; a most excellent man.
5. Miss Elizabeth Wolffe, his eldest daughter.
6. Another of Miss Elizabeth Wolffe, 1778.
7. The youngest daughter, Matilda, 1778, of George
Wolffe, Esq.
8. Jens Wolffe, his only son, 1778.
9. Ernst Wolffe, the brother of George, 1778. A
most amiable man.
10. Captain Anker, a Dane, 1778, in a public capacity
in England.
11. Mr. Smith, a Dane, at School in England, 1777.
12. The two Miss Comparts, 1777, of St. Neots,
Huntingdonshire.
13. Benjamin West, Esq., 1777; b. in America, 1738,
d. 1820; the great historical Painter, my most
beloved teacher.
14. Another of Mr. West, 1777.
15. Another of Mr. West, 1777.
16. Richard Cooper, Esq., Engraver, 1777, just before
his clandestine marriage.
17. George Gorham, Esq., 1777, Merchant, at St.
Neots, Huntingdonshire.
18. Mr. Wright, at Emmanuel College, 1777.
19. The Rev. Henry Hubbard, B.D., Fellow of
Emmanuel College, and Registrar of the Univer-
sity, 1777, of great note ; painted the size of
life, for John Mortlock, Esq.
20. .Mr. Lovett, at Trinity College, 1775, S.T.P., 1806.
He was glad to be in the Church that he might
have the talk to himself, at least one day in the
week.
21. The Rev. Peter Stephen Goddard, D.D., the
Master of Clare Hall, 1777, painted large as
life, for John Mortlock, Esq.
22. Alderman Reynolds, of Norwich, 1777.
23. Mrs. Reynolds, his wife, 1777.
24. Miss Frost, of Norwich, 1778, the intended of the
Rev. Mr. Adkin.
25. Old Mrs. Gray, of Norwich, 1778.
26. The two daughters of Mr. Rigby, of Norwich,
1778, the celebrated Surgeon.
27. Lady Northampton, 1779, second wife of Spencer,
8th Earl of Northampton, for Gregory Way,
Esq., whose niece he married.
28. Gregory Way, Esq., and his Lady, 1778, of
Spencer Farm, Essex ; slie was Miss Paxton.
29. Mr. Le Maitre, one of the three Judges appointed
going out to India, 1778; painted large as life,
and small.
30. Mr. Wheeler, Fellow Commoner of Trinity
College, 1778.
SECOND SERIES.
Volume the Third.
1. Richard Farmer, D.D., 1788. Head of Emanuel
College, Cambridge, of great note.
2. Mr. Tyoroton, of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1778.
Of the Rutland f.imily.
3. Mr. .Mantle, of Hene't College, Cambridge, 1778.
4. Miss Gooch, 1778. Daughter of Dr. Gooch, etc.,
of Ely Cathedral.
5. Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes, Esq., 1781.
Painted a family picture of himself. Lady
Strathmore and her three sons and two
daughters by the late Earl, and one daughter
by himself, 1781.
6. The Countess of Strathmore, her son. Earl
Strathmore, the Hon. George Bowes, Lady
Anna Maria Bowes.
7. Lady Mary Bowes ; another of Lady Anna Maria,
the Hon. Thomas Bowes, and the little girl by
her present husband, 1786.
8. The Rev. Mr. Adkins.of Norwich, at Bene't College.
9. The Rev. Mr. Wakefield, of Richmond, 1778,
on a visit to his brother, Gilbert Wakefield, at
Cambridge.
10. Mrs. Wakefield, his lady, 1778.
11. Anotherof Mrs. Wakefield, 1778.
12. Gilbert Wakefield, of Jesus College, Cambridge,
1778.
13. Master Banks, 1778.
14. Mr. Curtis, at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1778 ;
B.A. 1799.
Hi.
List of Portraits
SECOND SERIES. Volume thr Third-
15. Jacob Mountain, of Caius College, Cambridge,
1778. Was soon afterwards Bishop of Quebec,
and truly a man in every sense of the word.
16. Mr. Mountain, 1778. His brothers went to
America with him.
17. Miss Mountain, 1778. His sister.
18. Miss Mountain, 1778. The younger sister.
19. A Lady Unknown, 1778. For Jacob Mountain.
20. Miss Bakewell, 1778. For G. J. G.
21. Old Mr. Wale, of Shelford, near Cambridge, 1778.
Had been a Russian merchant.
22. Miss Wale, 1778. His daughter, the favourite of
Mr. Brundish.
■continuetl.
1778.
The younger daughter,
23. Miss Mary Wale,
fair and lovely.
24. Another of Miss Mary Wale, 1778.
25. The Rev. Mr. Richards, of Longbreddy, Dorset-
shire, 1788. Had the finest manor for game in
England.
26. .Mrs. Richards, his lady, 1778. Was the celebrated
daughter of Dr. Moisey, of Bath.
27. Another of Mrs. Richards.
28. Mr. Brown, of Frampton, Dorsetshire, 1778, on a
visit at Longbreddy House.
29. Miss Ives, of Norwich, 1778. Fair and lovely, for
Jer. Ives, Esq. A half-length on panel.
30. Another of Miss Ives, 1778.
SECOND SERIES.
Volume the Fourth.
1. Mr. Lowther, at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1778.
He became Sir William Lowther, Bart., Lord
Lowther, and Earl of Lonsdale.
2. Mr. Craddock, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
1778.
3. Mr. Farhill, of Bene't College, Cambridge, 1779.
4. Mrs. Pervis, 1778, on a visit at the Rev. Mr.
Doily's.
5. Mrs. Doily, 1778, of , near Cambridge.
6. A lady unkown, 1778, for Frank Fane, Esq., of
Dorsetshire.
7. Mr. Trilogue, at Queen's College, Cambridge, 1778.
8. Mr. Heighton, at Caius College, Cambridge, 1779.
9. Mr. Gillum, of , Cambridgeshire, 1778.
10. Mr. Roberson, Dissenting Minister at Cambridge,
1778. A writer of great ability — from my
portrait many prints were made for his works.
11. Mrs. Colvill, of , near Cambridge, 1778,
the friend of Mr. Roberson.
12. Miss Colvill, her daughter, 1778. Her face had
been sadly cut by glass in the overturn of their
chariot.
13. Master Rupert Green, 1778.
14. Mrs. Butler, 1778, for Sir Lambert Blackwell,
Sprowston Hall, Norfolk ; painted this a half-
length on panel.
15. Mrs. Wheatley, 1778.
16. Miss Elizabeth Flood, of Exeter, 1778, second
daughter of the alderman.
17. Old Mrs. Downman, 1778.
18 Old Mr. Downman, of Alphington Cot, near
E.teter, the father of Dr. Hugh Downman, 1778.
19. Another of old Mrs. Downman, 1778.
20. Doctor Hugh Downman, of E.xeter, 1778.
21. Mrs. Downman, his lady, 1778; she was cousin to
Lord Courtenay.
22. Old Mr. Nation, of Exeter, 1780, merchant.
23. Old Mrs. Nation, his wife, 1780.
24. Young Mr. Nation, his son, 1780.
25. Miss Fell, 1778.
26. Mr. Webber, 1779, merchant at Exeter.
27. Montague Parker, Esq., of Whiteway, Devon, 1779.
28. Mrs. Montague Parker, his lady, 1779 ; was Miss
Ourey.
29. Mr. Francis, of Cambridge, 1779, partner to John
Mortlock, Esq., banker, etc.
30. Captain Crook, R.N., at Exeter, 1779.
SECOND SERIES,
Volume the Fifth.
1. Counsellor White, of Exeter, 1779, a most excel-
lent man.
2. Mr. Kennaway, of Exeter, 1779.
3. Miss Peggy Wale, of Cambridge, 1778, a Beauty,
who Mr. Tyson, of Bene't College, married.
4. Master Thackeray, 1779, son of the Apothecary,
at Cambridge.
5. Miss Thackeray, his daughter, 1778.
6. Miss Charlotte Seracold, 1779, of Cherry Hinton,
near Cambridge, for Lombe, Esq.
liii.
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SECOND SERIES. Volume the Fifth — continued.
7. Sir Jacob Wolff, of , near Exeter, 1780,
painted on panel, with his Lady and four
children, of Silesian origin.
8. Lady Wolff, 1780.
9. The four children.
10. Captain Peyton, R.N., 1779, of Exeter.
11. Masters Benjamin, of Stansted, and Lewis Way,
of Denham, 1779, the two eldest sons of Ben-
jamin Way, Esq., of Denham House, Bucking-
hamshire.
12. Master William Way and his sister, 1779, the third
son and eldest daughter of Benjamin Way,
Esq.
13. Mrs. Harvey, 1779, Lady of Doctor Harvey, of
Exeter.
Another of Mrs. Harvey, 1779.
Mrs. Hawtrey, of Exeter, 1779, Lady of the
Counsellor.
Mrs. Robert Cook, 1779, of — -, near Exeter.
17. Miss Thomas, at Exeter, 1779, sister to Mrs.
Roberts, the Counsellor's Lady.
14.
15.
16
18. Mrs. Stoodley, of Exeter, 1781.
19. Mr. Henry Lee, of Exeter, 1779, Solicitor.
20. Mrs. Lee, his Lady, and child, 1780.
21. Dr. Oakes, of Exeter, 1780.
22. The Lady of Sir John Poole, of Shute, Devon,
1780 ; was Miss Templer, now Dc la Pole.
23. Another of Lady Poole.
24. Mitchell, Esq., of , near Exeter.
25. Mrs. Mitchell, his Lady, 1780. She was of the
Molesvvorth family.
26. Master Mitchell, his son, 1780.
27. Charles James Fox, Esq., M.P., 1778, painted for
the beautiful Mrs. Crewe.
28. Colonel Thomas James, of the R.A., sent out to
America under Lord Howe.
29. Doctor Bentley, great in criticism, done from the
whole length, by Sir James Thornhill, in
Trinity College Hall, Cambridge, 1777.
30. Sir Isaac Newton, done from the whole length, by
Sir James Thornhill, in Trinity College Hall,
Cambridge, 1777.
THIRD SERIES
Volume the First.
10,
11.
12.
Mr. Tyghe, from Ireland, 1790, half length, a
group, with his daughter.
Miss and Master Cazelet, 1791, a group.
The Aunt to Miss and Master Cazelet, 1791.
Sir William Twysden, Bart., and his Lady, 1786,
whole length, a group. She was the youngest
Miss Winch.
Mr. Calvert, 1792, a group half length, with his
lady and child.
Two of Mrs. Calvert for the group, 1792.
Miss Currie, 1796, Mr. William Currie, her brother.
Two of Lady Susan Carpenter, 1792, afterwards
Marchioness of Watcrford. Her brother, John
George Viscount Callingford, died 1789, children
of Earl Tyrconnel.
The Honorable Colonel Clements, from Ireland,
1791, Master and Miss Clements, his children,
1791, a group. His Lady ill at Knightsbridge.
Miss Sarah Horsington, 1793.
Mrs. Philips, 1796.
Honorable Miss Caroline Courtenay, 1801, for old
Mr. Taylor, of Denbury, afterwards Lady
Caroline Norland.
Mrs. Currie, 1791.
Honorable Captain Lcgge, R.N., 1802, son of the
Earl of Dartmouth.
The Honorable and Reverend Mr. Leggc, his
brother, 1802.
16. The Honorable Mr. Henry Legge, of Lincoln's
Inn, 1802, another brother.
17. Master Webb, from Uxbridge, 1798.
18. Mrs Beauville and her son, 1798, half length, a
group for the Earl of Tyrconnel.
19. Mrs. Foxall, 1799.
20. Mrs. Selby, of Alnwick, Northumberland, 1790,
whole length, a group with her husband.
21. Two children of Montagu Burgoyne, Esq., M.P.,
a group, 1794.
22. Three children of Richard Chambers, Esq., 1790, a
group. He was Banker at Ncwcastle-on-Tyne.
23. Mrs. Lushington, a whole length, 1784. Her
husband was soon after knighted Sir William.
24. Miss Tufnel, 1797.
25. Mrs. Poore, 1801, done the day after she was so
sadly killed.
26. Mrs. Sewel, a whole length, 1781, sister to Mr.
Lcvves, of the War Oflice.
27. Two of Lady Mildmay, a half length, 1793.
28. Two of Mrs. George Ricketts, a half length, 1793,
sister to Lady Mildmay.
29. George Ricketts. Esq., at College, Cam-
bridge, 1778; Mrs. George Ricketts, another,
1793.
30. Mrs. Mountain, a group with her husband, 1784,
wiio was soon alter lii'st Hisliop of Quebec
liv.
List of Portraits.
THIRD SERIES
Volume the Second.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
II.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
ly.
20.
21,
Mr. Braddyll, of Lancashire, 178S, whole length.
John Drummond, Esq., banker, 1787.
The Nephew and Lady of John Drummond, 1787,
they were in a group.
Counsellor Minshull, 1796.
Mr. Kecble, from India, 1798.
Another of Mr. Keeble.
Mrs. Saunders, of Southend, 1798, sister to Mr.
Keeble.
Mr. Ray and his daughter, 1796.
Second Miss Ray and Master Ray, three children
in a group.
Miss Richards, 1790, of Longbreddy House,
Dorsetshire.
Mr. Sahnond, 1795.
Miss Wynch, 1789, daughter of Captain Wynch,
from India, a half-length, with Zephyr, Mrs.
Barbauld's idea.
Thomas Daniel, Esq., A.R.A., 1799, in a group,
with his nephew, William Daniel, gr<:at
travellers in India.
William Daniel, 1799, for the group in the St.
Pancras Volunteers, in my Company.
Mrs. Dewar, 1789, a whole-length.
The three sons of Jeremiah Dyson, Esq., 1787, in
a group.
Mrs. Graham Clarke, 1801.
Another of Mrs. Graham Clarke, 1801.
The lady of Sir Godfrey Webster, 1791, divorced
and became Lady Holland, wife of Henry
Richard, 3rd Lord Holland, ob. 1845.
Miss Adeane, 1784, a whole-length, just married
to the Rev. .Mr. Law, successively Bishop of
Chester and Bath and Wells.
Mr. Middleton, of Stoclicld Park, Yorkshire, 1792.
His son. Master Middleton, for the group, 1792.
22. Two more children of Mr. Middleton, 1792, with
their brother in a group.
23. Mrs. Middleton, of Stockeld Park, 1792, she was
Miss Grace.
24. Mr. William James Merchant, 1797.
25. Mrs. Downman, 1794, lady of Dr. Hugh Downman,
Exon.
26. Mrs. Young, 1780, of the Drew family, Devon.
27. Mrs. Seaforth, 1787; Mrs. Smith, 1787.
28. Lady Haggerston and her daughter (afterwards
wife of Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart., of Hooton),
1783, a group half-length.
29. The younger Miss Lushington, 1798, a group with
her sister.
30. The elder Miss Lushington, 1798, for the group,
of Porland Place.
31. The Daughter of Sir James Liddle, 1783, a half-
length. Master Robert Chambers, 1790, in a
group with his sister and younger brother
Charles ; sent to their father. Sir Robert
Chambers, Judge, in India.
32. Mr. Croker, 1789, a whole-length. Ward of Mr.
Lock, of Norbury Park. Mrs. Ellis, 1792, a
whole-length, daughter of Sir Peter Parker,
Ad., R.N.
33. Captain Dubson, 1783. Old Mrs. Pearce, of
Lothbury, 1800, of Grecian origin, mother of
J. Pearce, M.P. for Devizes.
31. Lady Georgiana Buckley, daughter of Earl of
Delawarr, 1784, the Duchess of Hamilton, 1784,
a group half-length, with Lady Percy, her
sister, nees Burrell. The Duchess re-married
Marquess of Exeter.
35. Miss Palmer, afterwards Marchionessof Thoniond,
niece of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1783, a half-
length. Miss Ellis, 1794.
THIRD SERI ES,
Volume the Third.
1. Mrs. Bulteel, of Lynham House, Devon, 1796,
lady of John Bulteel, Esq.
2. Miss Bulteel, 1796, her daughter, in a group with
her brother.
3. Master Bulteel, 1796. For the group.
4. Miss Harris, of Plymouth, 1796. The banker'.s
daughter. Niece of Mr. Bulteel, of Lynham
House.
5. William Dundas, Esq., 1783. A whole-length.
6. The daughter of Bransby Cooper, Esq., from
Norfolk, 1786.
7. Lady Elizabeth Lambert, 1788, as Una in
Spenser's " Fairy Queen.' Sister to Lord
Cavan ; born 1784; married 1st, Captain Wood-
gate ; 2nd, Captain Harvey.
8. Lord Kilcourcy, 1785. First son of the Earl of
Cavan ; outline, the day after his death.
Iv.
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THIRD SERIES. Volume the Third— continued.
9. The three daughters of the Earl of Cavan, 1788,
in a gioup.
10. The lady of Lieutenant Clark, R.N., 1780.
11. Counsellor James White, of Exeter, 1796.
12. Mrs. Abbott, his niece-in-law.
13. Mr. Dine, 1779, Vicar-Choral of St. Pauls.
14. .Mrs. Dyne.
15. Mrs. Wright, 1777. The famous Wax-woman and
Republican, from America. Another of Mrs.
Wright.
16. Miss CruikshanUs, 1790. Second daughter of the
celebrated surgeon.
17. Mr. Reid, from Dublin, 1801. For his son, Ralph
Reid, Esq.
18. Mrs. Hardinge, 1789. A half length.
19. .Miss Hill, 1796.
Mrs. Poynts Ricketts, 1793.
Sir George Armitage, 1795. A whole-length. He
had married the beautiful daughter of Sir
Harbord Harbord, Bart., whom I had also
drawn.
The Hon. Mrs. Petre, 1793. A half-length.
The two children of Sir George Cornwall, 1790,
in a group, with a shell. The girl became Mrs.
Frankland Lewis, mother of Right Hon. Sir
G. C. Lewis.
20
21
22
23
25.
26.
27.
28.
'2i. The three children of Edmund Pleydell, Esq., of
Milbourne, Dorsetshire, 1790, in a group.
Master Monson, 1799. A whole length. Son of
the Hon. Mr. Monson, in the East India Service.
Mrs. Ford, 178'^. A whole-length.
Mrs. Pearson and sister, 1787. For the group.
Mr. Pearson and child, 1787. All in the group.
29. Mr. King, 1785, the actor, as Sir Peter Teazle,
whole-length ; with MissFarren as Lady Teazle,
for Lord Derby (afterwards Countess of Derby).
Mr. Cust, King's Counsel, 178S, a whole-length.
30. Lady Roger Twisden, 1784. A half-length, with
her daughter, Mrs. Massingbird, 1783, a half-
length.
31. Lady Lewisham, 1785. She was Lady Francis
Finch, and became Countess of Dartmouth.
32. Baroness Willoughby d'Eresby, 1786, lady of
Sir Peter Burrell, Bart. A whole-length, for
her mother, the Duchess of Ancaster.
33. Colonel Hunter, of Bath, 1790.
34. Master Henry Wesley, 1796, brother to Lord
Mornington, afterwards Lord Cowley.
35. The son and daughter of Keane Osborne, Esq.
Sent to Jamaica to him, a group, whole-length.
36. The Hon. Mrs. Darner, when modelling, 1788.
THIRD SERIES.
Volume the Fourth.
1. Mr. Farhilt, 1778, of Bene't College, Cambridge;
Mr. Mjntle, 1778, of Bene't College, Cam-
bridge.
2. Miss Duntz, 1776, of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire.
Another of Miss Duntz, she was a relation of
the Duke of Manchester.
3. Mr. Stileman, 1777, of College, Cam-
bridge ; Mr. Barnard, 1777, of College,
Cambridge ; a friend of Lord Althorp's.
4. Mr. Burslani, 1778, of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge; a great skater; Mr. Grattan, 1778, of
Trinity College, Cambridge, Tutor to Governor
HoKlsworth.
5. Miss Wale, 1778, a favourite of Mr. Brundish, of
Caius College; Miss Mary Wale, 1778, of
Shelford, near Cambridge.
6. Mr. Hickford, 1777, of College, Cam-
bridge, Mr. Buxton, 1777, of College,
Cambridge.
7. Mrs. ColviUe, 1778, of , near Cambridge,
Miss Colville, 1778.
8. Another of Mrs. Colville, 1778; Mrs. Richards, of
Longbreddy House, Dorsetshire, 1778.
9. Miss Mary Kentish, 1779, ot , near Cam-
bridge. Another of Miss Mary Kentish, 1779,
sister to Mrs. Mountain, the Bishop of Quebec's
Lady.
10. Three of George Wolffc, 1773 ; the Danish Mer-
chant and Consul.
11. Mr. Wroughton, the Actor, 1777; Mr. Aiken, the
Actor, 1777; Mr. Lewis, the Actor, 1777; Mr.
Reinhold, the Bass Singer and Actor, 1777.
12. Mr. Hill, the Actor, 1777; Mr. Lione, the cele-
brated Jew Singer, 1777 ; Mrs. Hartley, 1777,
an admired Actress.
13. Another of Mrs. Hartley. The preceding six
studies of actors were made for my design from
Mason's Play of Caractacus, but which I had
not time to make a picture of as I intended. It
was acted at Covent Garden Theatre with
applause.
14. The Honourable Colonel Trevor, 1780, of the
Sussex Militia, at Exeter. The Duke of Rich-
mond, Commander.
15. The Rev. Mr. Toogood, of Exeter, 1779, Outline,
called the Western Apostle.
Ivi.
List of Portraits
THIRD SERIES. Volume the PovR^H— continued.
16. John Parlier, Esq., of Saltram, M.P., for Devon,
1780 ; ill 1784 was created first Lord Borringdon.
17. Colonel Henry Phipps, 1781. Outline; on the
death of his brother became second Lord
Mulgrave.
18. The Lady of Thomas Lord Foley, 1780; she was
fourth daughter of the Earl of Harrington.
19. General Harcourt, for a whole length 1779; by
the death of his brother he became Lord
Harcourt. A monument to him in St. George's,
Windsor. He was succeeded in his Estates by
Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of York.
20. -Mrs. Billington, 1786. Outline, two ; a most
celebrated singer.
21. The Lady of Captain Charles Hamilton, R.N.,
1779 ; she was Miss Prosser ; played and sung
finely.
22. The Rev. Dr. Woodcock, of Bath, 1790, for his
son-in-law, Dr. Munro.
23. Fox Lane, Esq., 1781, of Bramham Hall, York-
shire.
24. Mr. Brundish and Mr. Mountain, two friends, of
Caius College, Cambridge, 1778 ; the latter soon
after was Bishop of Quebec.
25. The daughter of Newton Fellowes, Esq., in a
group with her brother, for the Dowager Lady
Portsmouth, their grandmamma, 1798, after-
wards Lady Henrietta Chichester Nagle.
26. The Son of Newton Fellowes, Esq., for the
group, 1798.
27. Colonel John Hunter, at Clifton, 1776, owner of
Little England in Virginia.
FOURTH SERI ES
Volume the First.
1. Hugh, Lord Percy, 1811, eldest son of the Duke
of Northumberland, s. 1817, K.G., d.s.p. 1847.
At this time he commanded a regiment of his
own raising of 700 men, with artillery, etc.,
and kept them all at his own expense during
the war. I drew three portraits of this, and a
half-length figure in uniform.
2. Colonel David Smith, of Alnwick, 1811, principal
steward to the Duke of Northumberland.
3. Mr. Robinson, 1811, a great farmer, near Alnwick.
4. The Hon. Mrs. Lamb, 1810; a half-length for the
Duchess of Devonshire.
5. Dr. Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St. David's, 1817,
a celebrated character and author.
6. Lewis Way, Esq., of Stanstead Park, 1815, the
great converter of the Jews to Christianity.
7. Another of (now) the Rev. Lewis Way, of Stan-
stead Park, 1817.
8. The Lady of the Rev. Lewis Way, of Stanstead
Park, 1817, she was Miss Drew, of Devon-
shire.
9. Miss Drusilla Way, 1817, his eldest daughter, for
the group of his four children.
10. Master Albert Way, 1817, his eldest son, founder
of the Archa;ological Institute.
11. Miss Anna Mary Way, 1817, Mrs. Ayshford Wise.
12. Miss Olivia Way, 1817, Mrs. Kennaway.
13. The Rev. William Way, of Glympston Park, 1817.
He played at backgammon from Wednesday
morning till Saturday night.
14. Benjamin Way, Esq., of Denham House, Bucks,
1819, the elder brother of Lewis and William,
etc. ; also drew his lady and daughters, and
Miss West.
15. Mrs. Way, of Glympston Park, Oxfordshire, 1817,
lady of the Rev. William Way.
16. The widow, Mrs. Nicholson, sen., of Bishopwear-
mouth, 1811.
17. Another of Mrs. Nicholson, 1811.
18. Robert Nicholson, Esq., of the Green, Bishop-
wearmouth, Sunderland, 1812. His father and
himself married two sisters.
19. His Lady, Mrs. Robert Nicholson, jun., 1S12.
20. Miss Nicholson, 1812, sister to Robert Nicholson,
Esq., jun.
21. Graham Clarke, Esq., of Fenham House and West
India, 1811, merchant at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
22. His son, James Graham Clarke, 1811. 1 also
drew his mother and two beautiful sisters.
23. The Rev. Mr. Copplestone, 1810, Poetry Professor
at Oxford, Bishop of Llandaff, and Dean of
St. Paul's.
24. The Rev. Dr. Cole, 1810, Master of E.xeter
College, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. I drew
four portraits of this.
25. Mr. Randies, 1807, the celebrated blind harper,
and organist of Wrexham, in a group with his
daughter.
26. Miss Elizabeth Randies, 1807, the extraordinary
musical child, for the group, whole length.
Ivii.
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FOURTH SERIES. Volume the First— continued.
27. William Bowles, Esq., of West Mailing, Kent,
ISIO.
28. Mrs. Rouen, 1809, late Miss Martha Spong, of
Mill Hall.
29. Daniel Clutterbuck, Esq., 1811.
30. John Scudamore, Esq., 1811, solicitor. [Married
Charlotte Downman, niece of the artist.]
FOURTH SERIES
Volume the Second.
1. Lady Elizabeth Smyth, 1814. Cousin and wife
of John Henry Smyth, Esq., M.P., of Heath
Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, and daughter
of the Duke of Grafton.
2. Benjamin Hcywood, Esq., of Stanley Hall, near
Wakefield, 1814.
3. His daughter, Miss Heywood, 1814.
4. Mrs. Jones, 1814. Was another daughter of
Benjamin Heywood, Esq., and lady of a banker
at Liverpool.
5. A lady, not named, 1815. For Captain Heywood,
son of Benjamin Heywood.
Daniel Gaskill, Esq., M.P., of Lupset House, near
Wakefield, 1815. A great Radical ; uncle of the
Conservative M.P. for Wenlock.
7. His lady, Mrs. Gaskill, 1815. Another daughter
of Benjamin Heywood.
The lady of Counsellor John Heywood, of Wake-
field, 1815, brother to Benjamin Heywood, Esq.
The Rev. Thomas Jarvis, 1814, of Leeds. A
distinguished author.
Mrs. Larking, of Clare House, East Mailing,
Kent, 1806. A lady of John Larking, Esq., and
sister to Sir Charles Styles, Bart. In a group
with her eight children.
Master Lambert Larking, 1806. For the group.
Misa Emily Larking, 1806. Ditto. [Mrs. Green.]
6.
8
9
10
Ditto, not verv well.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
[Mrs. Aretas
[Mrs. Waller.]
13. Miss Fanny Larking, 1806. Ditto, in a fantastic
dress. [Mrs. Lathom.]
14. Miss Camilla Larking, 1806.
[Mrs. Briggs.]
15. Miss Isabella Larking, 1806.
Akers-Douglas.]
16. MissCaroline Larking, 1806.
17. Master John Larking, 1806.
18. The infant Charles Larking. 1806.
19. The sketch for the Larking family group and dog.
20. Master William Edward Surtees, 1814. Related
to the Lord Chancellor Eldon, only child of the
beautiful young widow, who was Miss Farrand.
21. Mr. Cooke, 1815.
22. Mrs. Cooke, 1815. Of great musical abilities.
23. Mrs. Pearse, of Lothbury, 1815.
24. Tod Naylor, Esq., 1815. Manufacturer and
merchant at Wakefield.
25. His lady, Mrs. Tod Naylor, 1814.
26. Mr. Turner, 1815, Merchant from Exeter, at
Tod Naylor's, Esq.
27. Old Mr. Ridsdale, of Wakefield, 1815.
28. Mrs. Meller, of Rotherham, 1815.
29. Miss Beal, 1815. Though deaf and dumb, was
very clever.
30. Miss ,1816. A study for my picture of Peace.
FOU RTH SERI ES.
Volume the Third.
1. General Sir George Nugent, 1806, Commanding
the Western District, and soon after appointed
Commander-in-Chief in India. Whole-length
in a group, with his lady, two children, and
their nurse.
2. Lady Nugent, 1806. For the group. She some-
times wore very light hair as well as dark.
This was after introduced as a picture in the
group.
3. Another of Lady Nugent, 1806. For the group.
4. Master Nugent, 1806. For the group.
5. Miss Nugent, 1806. For the group.
6. General Sir George Nugent's infant son, 1807.
Drawn after death, as an angel asleep in the
Church.
7. General Sir George Nugent's nurserymaid, 1806.
For the group.
8. Mrs. Robinson, 1806. A sister of Lady Nugent.
9. Lady Nealc, 1806. For a whole-length.
10. Lady of Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, R.N.
11. Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1806.
List of Portraits
FOURTH SERIES. Volume the Third— coniimicd.
IlB. The Lady of Sir Samuel Hood, 1806. Mary,
daughter of Lord Scaforth, afterwards married
to the Right Hon. James Stewart, Governor of
Ceylon, who assumed her name of Mackenzie.
12. The Lady of Colonel Braddyll, of Lancashire,
1805. In a group with her three daughters, to
be sent abroad to another daughter,
13. Miss Braddyll, 180.5. For the group.
14. Miss Charlotte Braddyll, 1805. For the group.
15. Miss — Braddyll, 1805, the youngest daughter.
For the group.
16. The Lady of Colonel Hall, 1806. For a whole-
length. She was second daughter of Mr.
Chappell.
17. Old Mr. Woolcombe, of Plymouth, 1806, father
of Doctor and Henry Woolcombe, solicitor.
When the picture was sent home it made one
daughter laugh and the other cry.
18. Miss Moreshed, of Widdy, near Plymouth, 1805.
" A fairy dancing on the green
You here may fancy truly seen ;
In sportive innocence and smiling gay,
Was here and there in constant play."
19. Matthew Louis, Esq., 1505, from the East
Indies. Brother to Admiral Sir Thomas Louis.
20. The Lady of Matthew Louis, Esq., 1803. Born in
India. Daughter of General Stuart.
21. The Lady of Captain Elphinstone, R.N,, 1806. In
a group with her two daughters.
22. The Two Daughters of Captain Elphinstone, 1806.
For the group.
23. Mrs. Trevelyan, 1806, in a kncc-length group,
with her sister, Miss Bcckworth.
24. Miss Beckworth, 1806. For the group.
25. The Lady of Captain King, R.N., 1806, in a group
with her child. She was daughter to Sir John
Duckworth.
26. The Child of Mrs. King, 1806. For the group.
27. The Lady of the Rev. Mr. Rice, 1806. Was Miss
Elizabeth Holmes, of Westcombe Park, Kent.
28. The Rev. Dr. Grant, of London Street, Fitzroy
Square, 1803. A literary character of note ; he
had lost an eye, for which I have heard him
abuse John Hunter.
29. Miss Mary Minns, 1803. Eldest daughter of Mrs.
Cooper, by her first husband, and niece to
Mr. Mistear.
30. Clara, the first child of Colonel Trant, 1804. He
was afterwards Governor of Oporto; her mother
was Miss Sarah Horsington. [Married Mr.
Branstone, afterwards Dean of Windsor.]
31. The Rev. Mr. Luce, of , near Plymouth,
1805. For his niece, Mrs. Collings.
32. The Lady of Captain Collings, of , near
Plymouth, 1805. She was Miss Trelawney, and
niece to the Rev. Mr. Collings.
33. The Emperor of Russia and his sister, the
Duchess of Oldenburg. Drawn at Oxford, the
14th and 15th of June, 1814.
FOURTH SERIES
Volume the Fourth.
1. Robert Southey, Esq., 1812. A most celebrated
writer and Poet Laureate.
2. The Earl of Darlington, 1812. William Harry
Vane, Viscount and Baron Barnard, at Lnng-
don Grange, near his Seat of Raby Castle ;
Marquess of Cleveland, 1827; Duke, 1833;
K.G. ; died 1842.
3. Otitline, Mrs. Russel, of Langdon Grange, near
Raby Castle, 1812. Soon afterwards married
to the Earl of Darlington.
4. Outline, Mr. Scarth, of Standrop, 1812. Chief
steward to the Earl of Darlington.
B. W. Beckwith, Esq., of , near Durham.
6. Henry Witham, Esq., of Cliffe and Durham, 1812.
7. Another of Henry Witham, Esq., 1812.
8. The Lady of Henry Witham, Esq., 1812.
9. Miss Lucy Downman, 1812, daughter of Colonel
Thomas Downman, R. A. [Married CecilTylden.
Colonel Tylden was nephew of the artist.]
12
13
14
10. Miss Richmall Mangnall, of Crofton Hall, 1814.
An excellent woman and authoress.
11. Another of Miss Richmall Mangnall, of Crofton
Hall, 1814.
Miss Fayrer, 1814. Dear friend of Miss Richmall
Mangnall.
Henry Peterson, Esq., jun., 1814. Merchant
and manufacturer, Wakefield.
His Lady, Mrs. H. Peterson, I8I4, daughter of
Sir Thomas Turton, Bart., M.P.
15. The Lady of Thomas Hooper, Esq., of Durhami
1812.
16. Mr. Ebdon, architect, of Durham, 1812.
17. Mrs. Tyrell, 1812.
18. The Mother of John Wright, Esq., of Sunderland,
1812. After she was dead, by his urgent desire.
19. Dun, Esq., of — , near Newcastle-on-
Tyne, 1812.
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FOURTH SERIES. Volum
20. Two of the Lady of Mr. Waldie, 1812. Quaker
and merchant, at Newcastle-onTyne.
21. Joe Lambe, Esq., 1812. Merchant of Newcastle-
on-Tyne.
22. The Lady of Warren Lambe, Esq., 1812. Mer-
chant, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
23. Mrs. Parker, of Lower Elswick, Newcastle-on-
Tyne, 1812.
24. The youngest child of Mrs. Parker, 1812. In a
group with her mother.
25. Count Borolaskie, 1812. The Polish Dwarf, and
J. C. D., both supposed sitting. He was 3ft.
3in. high, and weighed 3st. 31b.
26. Stephen Kemble, the Actor, 1812. An excellent
Sir John Falstaff without stuffing.
E THE Fourth — continued.
27. Thomas Maude, Esq., 1812. Banker, Newcastle-
onTyne.
28. Miss Irwin, of Long Town, at Newcastle-on-Tyne
School, 1812.
29. The Lady of Major Pigot, of the Bucks Militia,
1805. For a knee length. She was of Ireland.
30. The daughter of General Stanwix, 1804. For a
whole length, with a dog.
31. Her brother. Master Stanwix, 1804. For Mrs.
Henry.
32. Mrs. Smith, of West Mailing, Kent, 1805. Early a
widow with a family, which she well managed.
3S. J. Downman, Limner, the Author, 1813.
FOURTH SERIES
Volume the Fifth.
9.
10.
11.
12.
K).
14.
15.
16.
17.
Horatio Nelson, 1802. Admiral Lord Nelson of
the Nile.
Lord Barham, 1809. Was Sir Charles Middleton,
of Barham Court and Teston, Kent.
Robert Baxter, Esq., of the Dee Villa, Chester,
1816.
The Lady of Robert Baxter, Esq., 1816.
Mr. George Cuctt, of Chester, 1817.
Mrs. George Cuett, 1817.
1815, architect, of
Eminent Counsellor
Thomas Harrison, Esq.,
Chester.
Francis Maude, Esq., 1815.
of Wakefield.
The Lady of Francis Maude, Esq., 1815.
Walter Vavasour, Esq., of Heath, near Wakefield,
1H14.
Mr. Lee, 1814, Solicitor, of Wakefield.
Mrs. Wolffe, of Sherwood Lodge, Battersea, 1803.
Lady of Jens WoHTe, Esq., Danish Consul.
General Campbell, 1803.
Miss Campbell, his daughter, 1803.
Another of Miss Campbell.
Two of the Lady of General Hay, Commander of
Maidstone Barracks, 1805.
Miss Mordaunt, 1803. Her Rev. father .said no
one could take her portrait, but was delighted
to confess himself mistaken.
18. Miss Delaval, 1803, daughter to Colonel Francis
Delaval.
19. The Lady of the Rev. Richard Ward, of Yalding,
1804. [Net Sarah Ramsay.]
20. The Rev. Mr. Hill, aged 94, 1803. Vicar of East
Mailing, Kent, great part of a century. He
went nine miles to see an antiquity and set off
in a gallop.
21. The Hon. Captain Arthur Kaye Leggc, R.N., 1803.
Brother to G., Earl of Dartmouth, K.G.
22. Mrs. Ward and child, 1804.
23. The Lady of J. Disraeli, Esq., 1804. Mother of
the Right Hon. Benjamin D'Israeli, the
universal and admirable writer.
24. The younger Miss Stuart, of Albemarle Street,
1804. A knee-length.
25. George Carpenter, Earl of Tyrconnel, Viscount
Carlingford and Baron Carpenter, 1802.
26. Mrs. Thompson, 1802. A group with her child,
for Earl Tyrconnel.
27. Mrs. Thompson's child, 1802. For the group.
28. Master George Taylor, 1803. For Earl Tyrconnel.
29. The Determined Widow, Mrs. Croad, 1806. A
whole length group, with her only daughter.
30. Another of Mrs. Croad, 1806.
31. The daughter of Mrs. Croad, 1806. For the group.
32. Mrs. Colonel Hall, of Plymouth Dock, 1806.
33. Mrs. Chnppcll, 1806. Mother to Mrs. Croad and
Mrs. Hall.
Ix.
List of Portraits
FOURTH SERIES
Volume the Sixth.
1. John, 2nd Lord Boringdon, of Saltram, Devon,
1805. A whole length.
2. Mr. Cruiksh.Tnk, 1797, the eminent surgeon, of
Leicester Square, London.
3. Mr. Francis Towne, of Exeter, 1795. Landscape
painter.
4. Columbine, 1807.
5. Miss Cooper, 1809. Afterwards Mrs. Baines, of
Eltham,Kent. [" Pretty Peggy Cooper," after-
wards Mrs. Ralph.]
6. Lucy Perfect, 1809. For the grape house.
7. Issabella CD., 1809. For the grape house.
8. Miss Margarette Holmes, 1809. For the grape
house. [Married Rev. J. Scholefield.]
9. Miss Charlotte Andrews, of Exeter, Devon, 1806.
10. Miss Mary Minns, 1802.
11. Old Mrs. Soane, 1798. Mother of the celebrated
architect.
12. His son. Master John Soane, 1798.
13. Captain Houlton, of Farleigh Castel, of the
Somersetshire Militia, 1799.
14. Miss Harriot Douglas, 1801. At Mamhead Cot-
tage, on a visit to Mrs. Houlton.
15. Old Mrs. Pearse, of Lothbury, ISOO.
16. Miss Russel, of , Kent, 1798.
17. Miss Martha Russel, 1798.
18. Miss Elizabeth Hiclis, 1799. Third daughter of
Dr. Hicks, of St. James's Palace.
19. Outline of Lady Elizabeth Forster, 1787. For a
whole length for the Duke of Richmond. After-
wards Duchess of Devonshire.
20. Outline, Lady Melbourne, 1787. A whole length
for the fJuke of Richmond.
21. Outline, the Duchess of Devonshire, 1787. A
whole length for the Duke of Richmond.
22. The Honourable Mrs. Damer, 1787. A whole
length for the Duke of Richmond. She amused
herself with sculpture, vide ante, 3rd Series,
Vol. III.
23. Mrs. Wells, the Actress, 1787, as one of the
Merry Wives of Windsor.
24. Outline, George Drummond, Esq., 1788. The
great Banker, Charing Cross.
25. Old Mr. Douce, 1788. The father of Thomas,
William, and Francis.
26. Miss Parr, 1790. For my large picture of Sir
John Falstaff.
27. Mrs. Dudlovv, of West Mailing, Kent. 1798. In a
group with her son John. {Nie Miss Gates.]
28. Master John Dudlovv, 1798. For the group.
29. Master Fo.xall, 1799. In a group with his mother.
30. Study from a beggar, 1802.
31. Sir Edward Hughes, 1803.
32. Mr. Jacob, 1803. A great horse dealer.
33. Miss Hind, 1801.
SKETCHES IN ONE OF THE SKETCH-BOOKS OF THE FIRST
SERIES.
These sketches have been framed separately, and are now in various collections.
280. The Hon. Henry Fitzroy, 1709. Original study.
Son of Charles, first Lord Southampton, and
lately married to Lady Ann Wesley, sister to
the Earl of Mornington.
281. Mrs. Gwyn.
2&-1. John Boyd, Esq., M.P., 1783. Original. I also
drew his sister, from which Bartolozzi made a
print.
283. Sir John Stepney, 1780. Original. I also drew
three of his elegant brother.
284. Miss Danby, 1779. Original study. Sister to
Mrs. Harcourt, and daughter of the Rev. W.
Danby, of Swinton. 1 also drew her brother
and his wife.
285. Mrs. Way, 1779. First sitting. Wife of Benjamin
Way, Esq., of Denham Hall. She was Miss
Cooke.
286. Captain Kcppel, 1781. Original study. Nephcvv-
to the celebrated admiral.
287. Admiral Cell, 1784. Original. I drew twoofthis.
288. Mrs. Fisher, 1788. Original. The wife of my
good friend Dr. Fisher, Canon of Windsor. I
drew two of her and the doctor, who became
Bishop of Salisbury.
289. Mrs. Tufnell, 1780. Original.
290. Mrs. Boyd, 1784. Orifjinal.
291. Mrs. Chollett, 1788. Original. From the West
Indies for her health, and left her husband
there. I drew two different portraits of hir.
292. MissSarah\\hitmore,ijf Dedham, 1787. Original.
I also drew her two elder sisters and father.
293. Mrs. Hartcp and her child, 1780. Original. At
Pynes, near Exeter. Her husband, whom I
also drew, was scon after a baronet.
Ixi.
John Downman
SKETCHES IN ONE OF THE SKETCH-BOOKS OF THE FIRST SURIKS— continued.
293a. The Hon. Peter Robert Burrell, 1784. Original
Study for a whole length, playing with a toy on
the floor.
294. Mr. Ward, of Soho Square, 1782. Original. 1
also drew his beautiful wife and her sister,
Miss Bucl<, and brothers thrice.
295. Mr. Greville, an officer, 1787. Original. Present,
his friend Sir Orlando Bridgeman, whom I also
drew. I had before drawn his beautiful sister.
Miss Crewe.
296. Miss Mills, 1780. Original. Daughter of the
Dean of Exeter.
297. The Lady of Benjamin Way, Esq., of Denham
Hall, 1779. Original.
298. Edward Elliott, Esq., M.P., 1779. Original.
Five years after created Baron Elliott, and
took the name of Craggs. Present, his friends
Colonel St. Paul and Mr. Langley, both of
whom I also drew.
299. Lord Euston, 1779. Original. George Henry
Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, a Captain in the Sussex
Militia. I drew two of this, one for Henry
Bunbury, Esq.
300.
301,
Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset and his
brother. Lord Fitzroy James Henry, the eighth
and ninth sons of the DuUe of Beaufort, 1790.
I had before drawn the elder children. He
was the first child of Sir Peter Burrell and
Lady Willoughby. Present, his grandmother,
the Duchess of Ancaster, and his aunt. Lady
Charlotte Bertie.
The Hon. Mrs. Harcourt, 1779. Original study
for a half-length. She was Mary Danby, and
widow of Thomas Lockhart, Esq. I drew four
portraits of her, and her husband twice, and a
whole-length. He became a general and the
third Earl Harcourt.
302.
303.
Benjamin Way,
Original study.
Esq., of Denham Hall,
I drew two of this.
1779.
Robert, Fourth Duke of Ancaster, 1779. Died
suddenly this year. This copy was enlarged
from a miniature, and done under the particular
directions of his friend, Mr. Weston, and much
approved, of which I made two.
LIST OF A FEW PORTRAITS BY JOHN DOWNMAN.
In various private collections, hitherto neither exhibited nor reproduced.
Richard Cooper, artist. Half-length,
Miss Baines
(Oil painting.)
Mrs. Norman Moore. William Smith, of Norwich.
Francis Cope, wife of above. (Crayon.)
Mrs. L. C. Ludlow. Frances Cope, wife of William
Smith, of Norwich, with their child, Benjamin,
in her arms. (Crayon.)
Mrs. George. Portrait (Crayon?) Miss Gent, great-
grandmother of Mr. George, of Cahore, Ireland.
Miss Mathias. Miss Kitty Mathias. Mrs. Ball, sister
to the above. Signed, J. Downman, 1783. Eight
inches, oval spandrel. (A pair. Crayon.)
Mr. Akers-Douglas, M.P. The finished picture of a
group of members of the Larking family, of which
the original sketches are in Mrs. Maitland's
collection of portfolios. (Crayon.)
Miss Warde. Mrs. Richard Warde, of Yalding.
(Crayon.) Charlotte, Mrs. John Scudamorc,
youngest daughter of Francis Downman, hrothor
of the artist. (Crayon.) These arc the two
grandmothers of the present owner, Miss Warde.
The Misses Lee. Francis Downman, Lieutenant-
Colonel, Royal Artillery, brother of the artist.
(Signed and dated 1799.) Isabella and Charles
Downman, son and daughter of the artist. (Oil
painting.) Anne Phoebe Downman, aged 15,
niece of the artist, 1791. (Crayon.) The same,
aged 27. (Crayon.) Signed and dated 1803. The
same, wife of Richard Dcbary. (Crayon.) Richard
Debary, husband of the above. (Crayon.) Signed
and dated 1810. Isabella Hunter, first cousin of
the artist on the mother's side. (Crayon.) Copied
from the oil-painting by Angelica Kauffman. now
in the possession of Charles Downman. Signed
and dated 1781.
The late Capt. G. Downman. Francis Downman,
Lieutenant-Colonel, R.A. Oil-painting. Unsigned.
Colonel James, R.A., uncle-in-law of the above.
Oil-painting. Unsigned.
Probably belonged to Mrs. Dickenson (the late) n^e
Bradley. Three heads in profile of Emilia, Anne
Phtebe, and Jane, daughters of Francis Down-
man, Lieut. -Col., R.A., silhouetted one behind
another. (Crayon.)
Charles Downman, Esq. They were sent to his grand-
father. Sir Thomas Downman, by a Downman
who was the owner of a large slate quarry in
Wales (Samuel Downman (?). Charles Down-
man, Esq., of Bully Hill, Rochester, uncle of the
artist, 1775. (Original sketch. Crayon.) Mrs.
Hunter, 1777, aunt of the artist on the mother's
side. (Original sketch.) The same, 1776. (Original
Ixil.
List of Portraits
LIST OF A FEW PORTRAITS BY JOHN DOWNMAN^cona«H<-(/.
sketch). Mrs. Downman, wife of Francis Down-
man, of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, mother of
the artist, 1777. Miss Isabella Hunter, tlaughter
of the above Mrs. Hunter, first cousin to the
artist, 1776. (Original sketch.)
Mrs. Richards. Portraits of John Richards, Maria
Downman, his wife (one of the Devonshire
Downmans), and their children. In all, ten heads.
(The late) Miss F. M. Dudlov/, daughter of John
Dudlow, the infant in the following picture. Mrs.
Dudlow, of Town Mailing, Kent, with her son
John as an infant. (Crayon.) Three crayon
portraits. Francis Douce, brother to William
Henry.
Miss Warde. Charlotte, youngest daughter of Francis
Downman, brother of the artist, as a child.
(Crayon.) Jane (Mrs. Douce), third daughter of
Francis Downman, brothcrof the artist. (Crayon.)
Signed and dated 1804. Her husband was William
Henry Douce.
Mrs. George Stow, grand-daughter of the following.
Charlotte, youngest daughter of Francis Down-
man, brother of the artist. (Crayon.)
Edward Scudamore, Esq. Four oil-paintings.
Major John Downman. Charles Downman, Esq., of
Bully Hill, Rochester, 1775. (Original sketch.)
"He was the eldest son of Hugh Downman,
Master of the House of Ordnance, at Sheerness,
at whose death his many friends made be engraved
on his tomb these words: —
' Here lies honest Hugh Downman.'
N.B. — For this list of family portraits
And his son, whose portrait you now sec, inherited
his virtues, and was indeed truly amiable and
good. And I, J. Downman, his youngest nephew,
am happy to record it on this my drawing."
Mrs. Hunter, 1777. (Original sketch.) "Myincom-
parable and delightful aunt, and whose great
accomplishments were only equalled by her
virtues. She was wife to John Hunter, Esq.,
the owner of little England, in Virginia, which he
left before the war and refused that government.
She was Emilia, the second daughter of Francis
Goodsend, Private Secretary to George the First,
and came with him to England.
J. Downman."
Mrs. Downman, 1777. (Original sketch.) "Shewas
Charlotte, the eldest of the two daughters of
Francis Goodsend, who had no son, and wife to
Francis Downman, an eminent Attorneyat-Law,
of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire.
' My excellent mothei-, so truly kind
And highly in all earthly good refined.
But once in life she chastisement gave
And then she did relent my tears to save.
Oh ! memory sweet that sweets the passing sigh
In a soft tear of perfect sympathy.'
J. D. 1819. "
Mrs. Hunter, 1776. (Original sketch.) "Wife of
John Hunter, Esq. "
Miss Isabella Hunter, 1776. (Original sketch.)
" Only remaining child of John Hunter, Esq.,
and my dear beloved cousin."
;'« are indebted to Miss Catherine Lee.
PORTRAITS EXHIBITED BY JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A.
AT THE ROYAL
DOWNMAN, John, A.R.A., South Slrctt, Berkeley
Square.
75 A portrait of a lady at work; Kit-cat.
73 A portrait of a gentleman ; three-quarters.
324 A portrait of a lady ; three-quarters.
79 The death of Lucretia, when Brutus
swears eternal enmity to Tarquin and
his race.
337 Two small portraits ; in oil.
Cambridge.
99 Portrait of a lady and her daughter ; half-
length.
100 Portrait of a lady ; small.
101 do. young lady ; small.
102 do. nobleman ; do.
103 do. do. do.
1770.
1772.
1773.
1777.
ACADEMY.
104 Five portraits of gentlemen. (One is West
the Painter. — Walpole.)
420 A madona.
Bedford Street, Covent Garden.
1778. 90 The priestess of Bacchus.
91 Tobias driveth away the evil spirit.
92 Six portraits.
93 do.
1779. 72 Si.x small portraits.
73 A lady surprised to have found her name
written on a tree.
1779. 74 Duke Robert. Vide reign of King Henry
the 1st.
75 Fair Rosamond. Vide reign of King Henry
the 2nd.
76 A conversation ; a sketch.
John Downman
PORTRAITS EXHIBITED BY JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A., AT THE ROYAL ACADEMW-cotittnited.
1780.
1781.
1782.
1783.
1785.
1786.
1787.
1787.
1788.
Ixiv.
369
do.
387
do.
388
do.
430
do.
431
do.
77 Four portraits ; sketches.
78 To the memory of GarricU ; a sketch.
79, St. James's Street.
23 Portraits of two boys.
153 Four portraits.
160 Portraits of a family.
482 Sketches from life.
487 do. do.
264 A family.
340 Portrait of a lady.
341 do. do.
455 Six coloured sketches ; portraits.
119 The return of Orestes. Vidt Electra of
Sophocles.
132 The ghost of Clytemnestra awaking the
furies. Vide the Furies of /Eschylus.
368 Portrait of an officer.
a lady.
an officer.
a lady.
a child.
a young lady.
421 Historical sketch to the memory of Lord
Robert Manners.
422 Portrait of a lady.
438 do. do.
440 Frame with six portraits.
444 Portrait of a lady.
447 do. gentleman. {Valentine Green.)
450 Portraits of two ladies ; whole-length.
456 Six portraits. {One Lady Eiiston. — Wal-
pole.)
463 An angel asleep : a girl on her pillow.
467 A head of Cinci, who was innocently
burnt alive.
628 Portrait of a lady and her son.
Leicester Fields.
335 Head of a Bacchante.
206 The Philosopher Square, when hid behind
the blanket in Molly Seagrim's garret, is
discovered by Tom Jones. (Vide Book
V, chap. V.)
227 The interview of Tom Jones and Sophia
after the reconciliation. (Vide Book
XVIIl., chap. 12.)
453 Frame with six portraits ; in water.
505 Miss Farren and Mr. King (vide "The
Heiress"); in water.
509 Portraits of the Princess Royal and Prin-
cess Augusta ; in water.
585 Twin brothers ; in water.
597 Portrait ; in water.
195 Portrait of a gentleman.
451 Portraits of four ladies of quality. (Duchess
of Devonshire, Duchess nf Richmond, Lady
Duncannon, etc.)
452 Lingo and Cowslips. Vide "Agreeable
Surprize." (Edwin and Mrs. Wells.)
463 Portraits of two celebrated actresses (Mrs.
Siddons and Miss Farren).
590 Portrait of a young lady.
1789. 81 Edwin and Emma. Vide Mallet's Poems.
435 Portrait of a gentleman.
436 do. lady.
443 do. lady of quality.
449 Portraits of four children. (Pelham's.)
450 Portrait of a gentleman.
525 do. nobleman ; oval.
534 Six portraits of ladies of quality, and
others. (Mrs, Broadhcad, etc.)
1790. 249 Lord William Russell (who suffered inno-
cently) in Newgate, with his wife. Lady
Rachel, and children ; the day prior to
his being beheaded.
488 Portrait of a lady.
490 do do. and her nephew.
528 Port.ait of a lady.
622 Six portraits of ladies of quality, and
others.
1791. 237 "Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii.,
scene 3.
388 Portrait of a young gentleman.
461 Ten small portraits of persons of dis-
tinction.
493 Portrait of a lady of quality.
1792. 400 Susanna, from the old ballad.
414 Eight portraits of noblemen, ladies, etc.
(A/r. Bland.)
416 Portraits of three children.
685 Portraits of a lady of quality, with her
daughter, and a young lady with her
brother.
1793. 230 A nymph reposing after bathing.
511 Three ladies of quality and nine others.
512 Three small portraits of ladies.
1794. 360 Twelve portraits.
372 Bacchus and Ariadne.
373 Portrait of a lady. '
1795. 334 Six portraits.
368 Love and Peace.
572 Portraits of three children. (Elected
A.R.A.)
Fitzroy Street.
1796. 127 And the Angel of the Lord said unto
Hagar, " Behold, thou art with child."
382 Twelve portraits.
1797. 261 Celadon and his Amelia, from Thomson's
" Seasons."
312 Edward IV. on a visit to the Duchess of
Bedford, is enamoured of Lady Elizabeth
Gray. Vide Hume's " History of Eng-
land."
List of Portraits
PORTRAITS EXHIBITED BY JOHN DOWNMAN,
445 A tablet of twelve portraits. (Canon
Jackson of Exeter.)
1798. 306 Thwackum's Battle. Tom Jones, B. 5,
C. 11.
308 Rule Britannia — a trophy with medallions
of Earl Howe, Earl St. Vincent, Lord
Duncan and other distinguished naval
heroes.
313 The Partridge family. "Da mihi aliquid
potem,"— Tom Jones, B. 2, C. 3.
405 Portraits of Mrs. and Miss Burrow and
two others.
512 Portraits of Mrs. Soane, senr., Master
Soane, Miss Hiclis, and two Miss
Russells.
669 Portrait of Mrs. Sinclair.
1799. 390 Portraits of Mr. R. Twopenny, Mrs. Fox-
hall and son, Mr. Houlston of the 1st
Wiltshire, Miss Charlotte, Lady Mul-
grave, Mrs. Diidlow and son.
1800. 376 Portraitsof Miss Lushington, Miss Augusta
Lushington, Mr. Kcble, Mrs. Mountford,
Master Smith and Master Mitford.
1801. 7 Sancho Panca in his government of
Barataria.
27 Don Quixotte recommends Rosinante to
the care of my Governor of the Castle,
as " the finest creature in the world."
1801. 632 Portraits of the Hon. Miss Caroline
Courtenay, Mr. Sharp, Lady Ward,
Master Tolson, Thomas Daniell, Esq.,
and William Daniell his nephew.
1802. 172 Fancy, from the Land of the Muses.
173 Fingal in his youth conquers the lover of
Utha.
361 Portraits of children whispering,
362 Portrait of a lady.
487 Six Portraits.
lie New Bond Street.
1803. 133 A girl feeding rabbits.
3.S2 Portrait of a gentleman.
424 Portraits of two ladies and a gentleman.
430 Portraits of two ladies and a naval officer.
41 JerniYH Street.
1804. 448 Portraits of Mrs. Smitli, Mrs. Wolff, Miss
Dalaval, Miss Perfect, Hon. Capt. Legge,
and Rev. Mr. Hill.
Town Mailing, Kent, am! 188, Pitcatiilly.
1805. 460 The Sybarite, from the narrative poem by
J. Disraeli. " With morn's first beam,"
etc.
540 Portrait of a lady.
571 Portraits of Rev. Mr. Whiteloek, Miss
Holmes, Capt. Downman of the Horse
Artillery and Mrs. Downman.
The above list, with notes, is given by k
A.R.A., AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY— continued.
Plymouth.
1806. 422 Captain Elphinstone.
423 Portrait of a lady.
426 do. do.
427 General England.
440 Portrait of a lady.
466 Lady Boringdon.
488 Mrs. Trevannion and Miss Bettesworth.
Exeter, and 20 John Street, Adelphi.
1807. 482 Portraits of a lady and her nine children —
the wife of J. Larking, Esq., of Clare
Lodge, Kent.
1808. 41 Salvator Mundi.
373 Miss Randalls, represented as the infant
St. Cecilia.
16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
1809. 19 The grape house. " Five nymphs the
mansion of Eudoxus bred, who every
sense possessed ; by virtue led. Engag'd
in elegant and useful arts; But most
their grape-house produce won all
hearts."
1809. 324 Portraits of a naval Commander and a
lady of quality.
1810. 439 A girl with an ague. " If you want a thing
to plague you, you had better have the
ague."
446 Portraits of Lady Nugent, Mrs. Hay, Mrs.
Davies, Lord Boringdon, Lord Barham,
and General Sir G. Nugent.
452 Cupid's venture on the Wave. "A sight
so fair was now first seen. Two lovely
swans — a god between ; . . .To Rosa
came, with matchless beauty blest, and
sunk reclining on her snowy breast."
1811. 278 Portraits of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford,
Miss Dudlow, The Poetry Professor of
Oxford, Mrs. Bowles, D. Clutterbuck,
Esq., and Mrs. Rowan.
41 Leicester Square.
1812. 481 Lady Smith.
1816. 404 Mrs. Warren Lamb.
409 Earl Percy.
411 Portrait of the Bishop of St. David's.
{Thomas Burgess.)
412 The Earl of Darlington.
485 R. Southey, Esq., Poet Laureate.
Chester, and 16 Henrietta Street, W.C.
1817. 582 Portrait of a gentleman.
England.
1818. 457 T. Harrison, Esq., architect, Chester.
Chester.
1819. 622 A late Princess personifying Peace
crowning the Glory of England reflected
on Europe, 1815. " Hail, lovely Peace I
in glory spread thy arms," etc.
ind permission of Mr. Algernon Graves.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Preface ------'--- v. — vi.
List of Illustrations ,,,,,.,, Ixvi.
Chapter I. Early Days --,--,- vii. — xxiii.
,, II. In a Kentish Village ------ xxiv. — xxix.
„ III. The West of England ------ xxx. — xxxiii.
„ IV. The Last Days ------- xxxiv. — xl.
„ V. The Art of Downman ------ xli. — xlv.
„ VI. On the Value of Works by Downman - - - xlvi. — xlviii.
Pedigree of the Downman Family ------ xlix.
Complete List of Portraits in the Sketch Books from Butleigh Court,
Series L, II., IIL, and IV. li.— Ixi,
Sketches in one of the Sketch Books of the First Series - - - Ixi. — Ixii.
List of a Few Portraits by Downman in Private Collections - - - Ixii. — Ixiii.
Portraits Exhibited by John Downman, A.R.A., at the Royal Academy - Ixiii. — Ixv.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Princess Royal, daughter of George III. Signed and dated 1782. Hodgkiiis
Collection .......-.-
Queen Charlotte. Signed and dated 1782. HoJghins Collection
Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot. Signed and dated 1779. Hoiigkins Collection - - - ,,
Miss Mills. Signed and dated. Hodgkins Collection - - - - - .,
Hon. Mrs. Harcourt. Signed and dated 1779. Hodgkiiis Collection - • • „
Earl Temple and family. Signed and dated 1782. Hodgkins Collection - - „
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Signed. Hodgkins Collection - - - „
Mrs. Trcvanion. Signed and dated. Hodgkins Collection - - • - „
Richard Brinslcy Sheridan (a miniature) .......
Miss Mary CruiUshank. Signed and dated 1781. Hodgkins Collection - - - -
A Lieutenant in the Staffordshire Militia, in oil on copper. Bemrose Collection
Mr. Beaumont, in oil on copper, liemrose Collection ......
Mary, Countess of Erne, eldest daughter of Francis, Earl of Bristol, with her daughter
Caroline, afterwards Lady Wharncliffc. Collection of Miss Hervey . - - -
Elizabeth, Lady Templetown. Collection of Miss Hervey . . . . .
Hon. Peter Robert Burrell. Signed and dated 1784. Hodgkins Collection.
Three younger children of the Larkin's (or Larking) Family of Clare Hall, West Mailing,
Kent. Camilla, Caroline and John, with their dog. Drawing in sepia over charcoal
with red chalk on the faces. British Museum ......
John Downman. By himself. Wash drawing on paper. Collection of the Authiir.
Three children of the Larkin's (or Larking) family, of Clare Hall, West Mailing, Kent.
Lambert, Emily and Fanny. Drawing in sepia over charcoal, with red chalk on the
faces. British Museum .........
Dr. Downman, physician and author at Exeter, Devonshire, by J.D., 1796. British Museum
Frontispiece.
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List of Illustrations
Collection of Mr
Engraved by Eugene Tily
" Her mental and personal attractions
British Museum ■ ■ - -
from America. Mrs.
Mrs. Downman, his Lady. She was first cousin to Lord Courtcnay. British Museum
One of the three children of Edmond Plcydcll Milbournc, Esq., Dorsetshire. In a group
1790. Mrs. Mailland's Collection.
Mrs. Siddons. From a print after Domnman by P. W. Tomkins
Lady Dclaval, of Seaton Dclaval. Oil portrait. Signed and dated 1792.
A. A. de Pass.
Hon. Robert Grosvenor. Signed and dated 1789. Hodgkins Collection
Benjamin Way, Esq., 1779. Hodgkins Collection.
Sir John Stepney. Signed and dated, 1780. Hodgkins Collection ■
Miss Mills. Signed and dated, 1780. Hodgkins Collection.
John Boyd, Esq., M.P. Signed and dated, 1783. Hodgkins Collection
Miss Abbott. British Museum ......
Mrs. Mary Robinson, as Perdita. From an original study
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Lady Elizabeth Foster
after John Downman, from the Original at Ickworth
Admrial Gell. Signed and dated, 1784. Hodgkins Collection.
Mrs. Downman. By permission of Messrs. T. Agnew & Sons
Miss Way. " Very pretty, but empty-headed." — J. D.
William Jackson, Esq. Signed and dated 1795. Hodgkins Collection
Portrait of a Lady. British Museum . - . . .
Miss Bulteel, from Devon, 1781. Original study.
made numberless suitors. I drew four of this."
The Lady of Lieut. Clark, R.N., 1780. Mrs. Maitland's Collection.
Mrs. Wright, 1777. The famous w^w-woman and republican
Maitland's Collection .........
Mr. Raid, from Dublin, 1801. For his son Ralph Reid, Esq. Mrs. Maitland's Collection.
Mr. Dyne, 1779. Vicar-Choral of St. Paul's. Mrs. Maitland's Collection
Mrs. Bulteel, 1796. Lady of Jas. Bulteel, jun., Esq., of Lunham House, Devon. Mrs.
Maitland's Collection ..........
The Duchess of Devonshire. From the Print by Collyer ------
Masters Benjamin and Lewis Way, 1779. Mrs. Maitland's Collection . . . .
Miss Hill, 1796. Mrs. Maitland's Collection.
Master Henry Wesley, 1796. Brother to Lord Mornington. Mrs. Maitland's Collection -
Mrs. Hardinge, 1789. A half-length. Mrs. Maitland's Collection.
Mrs. Abbott, 1794. Mrs. Maitland's Collection ......
Miss Nutt. Signed and dated 1789. Hodgkins Collection . . . . .
Portraits of John Edwin, comedian, and Mrs. Mary Wells, actress. Nicknamed "Cowslip"
in the play of " An Agreeable Surprise." Hodgkins Collection . . . .
The two children of Sir George Cornwall, 1790, in a group with a shell. The girl afterwards
Mrs. Charles Frankland Lewis. Mrs. Maitland's Collection . . . .
Master William Way and sister, 1779. Mrs. Maitland's Collection . . . -
The son and daughter of Kean Osborne, Esq,, 1783. Sent to Jamaica to him. A group.
Whole-lengths. Honora, married 1st Capt. Noodgate, R.N., 2nd Capt. Har\'ey. Alicia,
married P. Paunceforte Duncombe. Daughters of 7th Earl Cavan, in a group, 1788.
Mrs. Maitland's Collection .........
Sarah Kemble (Mrs. Siddons). "The Tragic Muse." From the Print after Downman, by
P. W. Tomkins ......-.--
Sophia R., unmarried. Daughter of 7th Earl Cavan, in a group, 1788. Mrs. Maitland's
Collection.
The daughter of Bramley Cooper, from Norfolk, 1786. Mrs. Maitland's Collection
Miss Harris, the Banker's daughter, of Plymouth, 1796. Niece to Mr. Bulteel, of Lynham
House (Mrs. Fitzroy). Mrs. Maitland's Collection .....
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Miss Danby, 1779. Hodgkiiis Collection ......
The Hon. Mrs. Petre, 1793. A half-length. Mrs. Maitland's Colkction
Mrs. Townley and child, 1804. Mrs. Maitland's Collection ....
Mrs. Larking, of Clare House, East Mailing, Kent. Mrs. Maitland's Colkction
Mrs. Thompson, a group with her child, 1802. Mrs. Maitland's Collection
Miss Farren. Engraved by Mr. Collyer from a drawing made by Mr. Downman for the Scenery
at Richmond House ------•---„ 47
Two of the three children of Edmond Pleydell Milbourn, Esq., Dorsetshire, in a group, 1790.
Mrs. Maitland's Collection.
Lord Kilcoursy, 1785. Mrs. Maitland's Colkction ..... - „ 49
Master Bulteel, 1796. For the group. Mrs. Maitland's Collection.
Miss Bulteel, 1796. In a group with her brother. Mrs. Maitland's Collection - • „ 50
J. Downman Limner, 1813. Mrs. Maitland's Collection.
Horatio Nelson, 1802. Admiral Lord Nelson of the Nile. Mrs. Maitland's Colkction • „ 51
Miss Delaval, 1803. Mrs. Maitland's Colkction -------„ 52
Lady Elizabeth Lambart, 1788. As "Unal" in Spencer's " Fairy Queen." Sister to Lord
Cavan. Mrs. Maitland's Collection -.------„ 53
Master Lambert Larking. Mrs. Maitland's Colkction.
Miss Lucy Downman, 1812. Daughter of Col. Thos. Downman, R.A. Mrs. Maitland's
Colkction ..-...--.--,,54
Henry Witham, Esq. Mrs. Maitland's Colkction.
Danl. Gaskill, Esq., 1815. Mrs. Maitland's Colkction ■ ■ ■ - - ,, 55
Lady Gordon, seated before a Spinet. Signed and dated 1786. Hodgkins Colkction - „ 56
Lady Duncannon. From an Engraving after Downman by F. Bartolozzi, R.A. ■ - „ 57
Study of a hand.
Isabella Chloe Downman, when a child, by J. D. Boy with dog. British Museum - 59
Mrs. Wells.
Mother. Eliz. Downman.
Our favourite puss " Tibby," at Mailing.
Son of Downman's. By J. D. British Museum - ■ - - - - „ 60
Sketch of a dove.
The head of a favourite spaniel, at Mailing.
Skcteh of a robin.
Toad, from our pond. West Mailing.
Study from my own feet. J. D. British Museum • • - - • • „ 61
Arms of the Downman family.
Sketch for Lady Henry Osborne and child.
The Old Woman and her Cats.
Sketch of part of Mrs. Larkin's family, of Clare Hall, near West Mailing, Kent. British
Museum ........... 62
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CLIFFORD 6 Co.,
Fine Art Publishers,
IRobinson anb Co.,
late ot ©l•for^ Street,
'lon^on.
"Bi-ts ant> drafts,"
Mbariicliff ;(6llil^inas,
:(6oscoinbc.
SPECIALISTS
in evervUbino
renuu•e^ for
tbe ^ecol•attoIl
an^ fittmo up
nn^ fiu-nii'hino
of a HOUSE
antique an^ nl^o^el•n jfurni!?binot-.
©l^ Bras? a Speciality.
21, HAYMARKET,
LONDON, W.
THIS beautiful Pidure, " Mv Lady,"
after G. Romney, has been mo^
faithfully reproduced in colour. Size of
adlual work, 24^ ins. by 18f ins.
The first 200 Artist's Proofs, slamped
by the Association and signed by
E. Milner - J^6 6 each.
A limited number of Prints in Colour,
not damped - i^3 3 each.
India Prints- - - SA I each.
Readers of " The Connoisseur" desirous
of obtaining first impressions should
write Messrs. Clifford at once.
•' Rodney" Jug.
(Sec "Cori.'iOisSKUR," Vol. VIII., page 101.
THIS JUG, in perfect condition,
FOR SALE.
Also a Large and Splendid Collection of
OLD IRISH CUT GLASS
. . . AT . . .
Wm. Egan g Sons, Ltd.
Antique Dealer5,
33, Patrick St., CORK.
The Connoisseur " Extra Number, A^o. 2
J. ELLETT LAKE 6 SON,
Specir
nens ot Old English Porcelain.
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ANTIQUE SILVER PLATE, JEWELS,
MINIATURES, ENAMELS. CHINA, WORKS
OF ART, OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE, Etc.
LARGE BUYERS OF ABOVE FOR CASH.
Derby.
Flichl. Biirr & Barr. Derl.y
Worcester.
Experts in Precious Stones.
Art Goldsmiths and Silversmiths.
VALUERS FOR PROBATE OR DIVISION.
ft?* t?* ^y*
TELEPHONE 320. ESTABLISHED 1833.
43, High Street, EXETER.
Fine old Sheraton Satinwood
Whatnot, Inlaid, in excellent,
untouched condition ; also Side
Table to match.
Set of 5 finely Carved, shaped
Hepplewhite Mahogany ..*^'^
Chairs, Honeysuckle and Husk
ornaments, loose seats, in
original condition. Photo sent.
e.5* e.?-* e^
Miss A.J.DAVIS
14, Winchester St.
= SALISBURY^
T OLIVER & SONS upholsterers
1. ULIVHR ot JUl^J. g DECORATORS
1 6, strand. Torquay. ^^^^^ g ^^^^^^
EstabUshed 1805
DANIEL EGAN,
26, LOWER ORMOND QUAY, DUBLIN.
FRAME MAKER & GILDER TO THE
NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND.
Modern and Antique Frames (or Pictures and Looking Glasses. Oil
Paintings cleaned, lined, and restored. Prints cleaned and bleached. A large
Collection of Old Furniture, Paintings. Coloured Prints, and Drawings.
a .
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J2 a,
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ANTIWORM
luis iiKiin iidvantn^os over
c\ci*\' othcf \\ (Kulworni
destroyer ; tioes not injure
the polisli, p.iiiit, or j;iUliiig ; does not stain the wood or
hands; does completely destroy the woodworm. Kaslly
applied. Found invaliiahle by hundreds.
Price
BATES,
2/6, post tree.
CAHIR. TIPP.
THE
'WESTBY' Scries of Seascape Photographs
(PERMANENT CARBON).
l-roni THE ART JOURNAL: " It wmiU) be
iHnicull In )>i.iisi- lou liit;lily llu- success with
wliiili tin- L'llfct of muviiin, liiMviiig water li.is
l.ffii rendered in llic Mip'-rli rompusition " AV//
oti, ihoii iffff and liar A- blue ihi-aii, rvU /' or ihe
l>i-.iuty of tlU' swecpii'K lii»-'S of llie wliite sea
liiirses, so transient, so momentary, yet thus
permanently rcrorded. . . . Mr. Worsk-y-
lleiiison's se.i ( i'iii|nisitiniis :irc iriuinplis of
.irlistic arr.iiiv;i-
til.'
l-rniii HERR AUG. SCHAEFFER. Painter
and Managing Director of thu Imperial Gallery,
Vienna; ■'I'.riiiii im- i l«-i my itiluiie of
1,1,: A .,ilMm..ti.ui f.-r your VMnk.'
THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S Ladlea' Conver-
sazione, from THE TIMES report: -"Mr.
W i..s|.-vH''iii'>'>ii's "-li--. "f se.iscipf photo.
v;iaphs.'.nl..i>.:ein.-iits in Cnl.-.n. «eri- iiMHni(i-
nMH e.\.iiiiplis III iihiili'i;r.tiiliic art."
I-rom THE STUDIO: "Mr. Worslcy-
Hi-niMin's recfiit addilioiis tn liis • Wcstliy " series
of pli..tt'K'''M''''' "■'*''tluly Mislain Ilie hinh rcpnta-
tiiiii In- enjiiys. Tlic mm in its evcr-cli.Tiiyiiijf
.ispi-ris lias never been more faitlifiilly or more
Inn ibly n-rorded," At.
MAGAZINE OF ART: " We are tflnd lo be
■ It, .,ir iti- M- w-iii.lcrfiil records, and to
1,'r.itiil.ile Mr. W nf,ley -Dcnison on tile
■ thlt
■ifh flltl liyf nf hnjlx'tt •■nl'.tjH,
, Iniwiiffivfl for inHfumtion,
F. H. WORSLEY=BENISON, " MowbricK," CHEPSTOW, England.
.\iv.
By Royal Warrants to
n.M. The King
and
n.M. The Queen.
" The Co/iiio/ssc/ir" Ilxtra Xiiiiihcy, No. 2
• J. C. VICKFRY •
179, 181, l«:i,
REOEM STREET,
EONDON, W.
IVIanufacturer of Gold & Silver Ware, Tortolseshell & Buhl Specialities, Eitted Dressing Cases, &c.
Viclicry's Best English made BUHL SMOKER'S TRAY, Htted with Cij;ar and Ci^jarettc Boxes lined
Cedar Wood, Mateh Box, SmoUer's Lamp, and Set of four Ashtrays, all in Buhl tO match Tray.
Lenjjth, exclusive of handles. 23J X IVj inches.
J. C. Vickery has a large selection of useful articles in Buhl on view— Writing Table Sets,
Jewel Boxes, Bridge Bones, Letter Trays, «c., «c.
'Bf5r Housf in London for Genuine Antiques.
COURTNEY DUCKETT. 108-9-10, Crawford St., Baker St., W.
Some Fine Specimens of Old Oak Furniture. Old Brass Work, etc.
N'otice to A)nerican T'fsitors :
Som- interesting samples of Old English China and Pottery at Bargain Prices.
Open from 9 am. to 9 pm
GENUINE ANTIQUES. U
Old Pastel Portr;iit of a
by Russell, size 24 by 18
ins.. £21. Two fine old Chelsea
Figures. Britannia and Minerva. 14 ins. high, £32 10. Old English Bracket
Clock. 8 days, by Josh. Stephens. London, I77b, £7 10. Fine Old Famille
Verle Kang Hi Cistern. 12 ins. high. £12 10. Pair Old Slipple Portraits.
Princess Sophia and Prircess Royal, after H, Ram berg, by Tomkins and
Ogborne, £5 5. Genuine Old Furniture, Silver. f*aintinvs. Engravings.
Enamels. China and Pottery. NO REPRODUCTIONS SOLD.
J. P. WAY,
— Antique —
Art Gallery.
Park Street, BRISTOL.
W.J.M^CoygSons.Ltd.,
BELFAST.
Dealers in
Antiques,
Old Prints, 6c.
Genuine Examples
always on hand.
"^j^ One of a pair of exceptionally rare
Chippendale Hall Chairs, painted
Heraldic device— "A Demi-wolf, salient,
regardant, argent, vulned, goutt^ de
sang.'* Price on application.
UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE.
A fine
Old English
Chiming
BRACKET CLOCK.
by Ellicott, London,
of historical
interest,
in perfect order.
HENRY WELLS,
15 & 19. High Street, SHREWSBURY.
jS jB jS
Genuine 6 Rare Old China, Silver,
Prints, Furniture, WorRs of Art.
A few nice sets of Genuine Chippendale and Queen
Anne Chairs. Photos and particulars on application.
JS J& J0i
ENQUIRIES AND INSPECTION INVITED.
Telegrams : " H'ells. Shretcsbury." S'ational Telephone, 55.
XV.
'' T/ic CoNi/oissCitr'' Exfj'a Nunibci', No. i
a GREST PHGEflNT OF
ENGLISH ttlSTORY
Under the patronage of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess
— of Wales, and many distinguished personages. —
Fashionable Society, Lovers of trie Picturesque, Historical Students,
Antiquaries, and others, are looking forward eagerly to the . . .
Pageant of Stirring & Eventful Incidents
associated with the History of the Ancient Town of
Bury St. Eonunos
WHICH WILL BE HELD IN
The GR0UND5 or the BEAUTIPUL ABBEY RUIiN5
Emm iJULY 8th to dULY 13th.
EACH daily !!^ representation will consist of eight Episodes — framed as a Folk Play —
depicting the Revolt of Boadicea ; the Martyrdom of King Edmund ; the Founding of
the Monastery ; Norman Monarchs at the Shnne ; the Barons swearing to force King
John to sign the Magna Charta ; the Arrest and Murder of Duke Humphrey ; Mary Tudor,
Duchess of Suffolk, at an Old English Fair ; and the Dissolution of the Monastery.
The Pageant will be produced under the direction of
— — = MK. LOUIS rs. P3KKER, — =—
riastcr of the successful Pageants at v'Shcrborne and Warwick
Choruses, Madrigals, an Orchestra of 100 performers. Dancers, Troupes of Horsemen and Horse-
women, 200 principal performers, and a crowd of over 1 ,000, in scenes copied from contemporary
records ; the whole forming a delightful spectacular, dramatic and musical entertainment.
The number of Tickets (10,000 of which have been sold) is strictly limited.
Prospectuses and all information from the Secretary,
the Pageant House, Bury St. Edmunds.
Souvenir of Ihc l^ageant Number of "The Connoi.s.-seur" will be
|)ul)li,shed early in dune.
XVI.
" The Coi///oiss('/tr" Extra Niniihcr, No. 2
ARMITAGE BROS.,
18. Clifford: STREET.
BOND ST, LONDON, W.
And G. F. ARMITAGE, Stamford, Altrincham,
The vxamplfs illustrated
ure to bv seen at
IS, CLirroRU strebt, w.
Inquiry invited by those who
contemplate furnishing in
original design or in any of
(he recognised periods.
by those who wish to acquire
at reasonable expenditure
genuine and interesting
examples of the early periods.
Also by those who desire
experienced advice in the
arrangement of any rooms in
their house which they find
difficult to adapt to their
purpose with good effect.
it should be understood that
this does not necessarily entail
either refurnishing or
decorating.
Specialists in Furniture and Decoration. ""''" ^"^"'^ %cS::l^. ^^^" "^
MYERS § a
Booksellers
AND
Printsellers
59,
HIGH HOLBORN,
LONDON, W.C.
Catalogues post free 011 application.
t^ c^ c^
Libraries and Small Collections of Books
purchased for prompt cash in
town or country.
Telegrams:
NIMEROISLY, LONDON."
Telephone :
4957 HOLBORN.
niCHAEL RYAN'S,
36 Si 37, King St.. CORK.
" 71ie Coniwisseiir" Extra Nimiber, No. 2
Extra Number (No. 1) of "THE CONNOISSEUR."
The Life and Works of
GEORGE MORLAND,
By J. T. Herbert Baily,
containing
100 Illustrations in Colour and Monochrome, and a complete
Catalogue of the published Engravings.
One of the Plates which is printed in Collotype.
PRICE FIVE SHILLINGS NETT.
BOUND COPIES. 7 6 NETT.
Ar J^ if
Now on Sale at all Booksellers, Newsagents, or the Publishers,
"The Connoisseur," Carmelite House, E.C.
" TJic C0111/0/SSC//1'" Il.xtrci IViiJuber, No. 2
"/e lover.s of yc Antic|uc Drinking Cilasscs
snouijj ifiAi) luioKiJ I o^
" How to distinguish yc genuine
from ye spurious."
By T. RUDD. %at Pkici; 6|).
lOo, High SiRiinr, Soutiiamptom.
Old Engravings and Paintings
= Framed and Restored. ^=
ERNEST ALDEN. 39, Kings Rd., Sloane Sq., S.W.
Te\. No. 1419 Victoria.
•MONUMENT" ANTIQUE GALLERIES.
J. W. ROSE O SON, SLEAFORD, LINCS..
Arc Buyers and Sellers of Genuine Antiques only.
A pair of very fine Carved Chippendale Chairs just to hand, also a
Charles II. Chair and 4 and i arm "William and Mary" Chairs.
This is the shop to waiult-r about in, 15b feet Ioiil;. ;ind well stocked with
old pieces of Furniture, Prints, China, Glass, Steel. Copper, Hewter, Brass,
etc. 22 8-day Grandfather Clocks, and over 30 Carved and Plain Oak
Chests. Collectors kindly note, only 3 nunutes' from the station.
■i OIK I\SI'I rilON IWl Mil.
EDGAR LINCOLN.
144, Kensington High St., W.
Dealer in English and Roman
COINS
SIXPENNY ILLUSTRATED COIN CATALOGUE. 7th Edition,
with 260 Illustrations of Coins, post free, yd.
ST. BOTOLPH'S GALLERIES,
Antique Dealers, Tubs Hill, SevenoaKs.
A genuine (_)iil Knglish Cliippendale Drackel ( liinic Clock in
Miihoi^nny Case, in its original condition, Whittini^ton chimes
on eight bells, price £30. A quantity of OKI Dresden China
in perfect condition, nearly all marked, at various prices.
An hour's motor drioe from Town through the most beautiful country.
A
NTIijUK Laces and Embroideiie'-, I'uim d'Alcncciii, I'ciini
d'Angleterre, Point d'Argentan, Bnranu, Binclie, Mechlin,
Lille, Hungarian, Spanish, Limerick, Italian, Ac.
BRIDAL VEILS in Honiton, Buckingham, and Limerick.
Best prices given for Old Lace and Mii^lin Em/'roid, rirs .
ELWOOD & SON, 43, Milsom St., BATH.
K RIIRR 5, Silver St.. BEDFORD ^'' '"..,'
■*^' .■-» V.^ '^i^-j Old Furniture. China, Slioffleld Plate, etc.
A l.AKGH bTOLK UI-
Genuine Antique Furniture at Moderate Prices.
i"N'(jrii;ii s sen ic rn n ^^.^__^.^ i-m > i< n ,i; \rns si \ i
F. JONES, I, Tavistock Street, BEDFORD.
2 ANTIQUE rUKNITLKE %
C ^^^^= AT MODERATE PRICES. ^;^=L. J
MRS. BRACKETT'S
School oj €mbroiDcry, £ace S Spinning.
Lessons Given and all Materials Supplied.
Copies of Jacobean Work and Needlework Pictures a Specialty.
200. Regent Street. LONDON. W.
E. HARRISON,
47, Duke Street, Manchester Square, W.
|LI..jSt P' ^\'ALL.'\CH COI.LKLTIMN.)
WANTED.— Genuine Old Hunting, Racing
and Coaching Paintings and Engravings.
Stand Pre-eminent
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS IN USE WRITE
FOR ILLUSTRATED PrICE LiST N^ 2°i
THOMAS GREEN&^50N L"^
LEEDS &, LONDON.
L_,__,
"One of the most
remarkable collections
of articles dear to the
Jf heart of a
Connoisseur"
Corner of old
St. Ann's Churchyard
South King Street.
P. ELLIS, 249, High liolborn. London,
AI.WAVS HAS ON OFFER WC.
Genuine Antiques at Moderate Prices.
Grandfather Clocks, 3(j,-, 70;-,95,-, 115,-: Old Arm ('hairs,
-7/6, 35/-. 42/6, 50/- ; Card Tables, 21/-, 30/-, 45/-, 55/- ;
Baromelers, 21/-, 24/6, 27/6. Enquiries Solicited.
Several fine pieces of genuine Old CHIPPENDALE,
ADAIVIS and SHERATON Furniture: also some
fine pieces of OLD LAC FURNITURE.
PAKTtCLLARS ASD PHOTOS.
S. LLOYD & SON,
OSWESTRY, SALOP.
A number of Old Sporting Prints after
Herring for sale. Also some Old Pictures
of ladies on glass.
JAMES HILL, SnVi'a'^^es.-' Bachelor's Walk, DUBLIN.
ENGRAVED PORTRAITS, including some mezzo-
tints, suitable h'T illustrating;. Catalogue post free.
A. RUSSELL SMITH, 28. Henrietta St.. Covent Garden, London, W.C
XIX.
" The Connoisseur" Extra Number, No. 2
For Current Prices
OF
Old Pictures Old China Old Coins
Books Furniture Medals
Prints Silver Art Objects
SEE
A.uction Sale Prices
(Supplement to "The Connoisseur")
A Quarterly List of Prices Realised at Auction
Price 2s. 6d. nett Quarterly
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June, September, &
December.
Of all BooKsellers, or of the Publishers,
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""SChe Connoisseur
»t
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The Magazine for Collectors. Published the First of Each Month.
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'he CONNOISSEUR " deals with every subject of interest to collectors and
persons of culture. Its articles are written by acknowledged experts, and are
illustrated by unique photographs and drawings of important examples and collections
from every part of the world.
The high standard of excellence by which the Magazine has been distinguished during the six years of its publication is fully
maintained, and from lime to lime new features of interest to collectors arc added to its contents.
Each number contains five or six Art Supplements, consisting of coloured reproductions, in the highest style, of well-known
pictures and other objects of art.
■■'11 IE CONNOISSEUR" now has a sale far surpassing any similar magazine in Great Britain, and has also a large and
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BEAUTIFUL Reproduction in Colour of the famous picture of
NAPOLEON THE GREAT, by Dei.aroche, now in the Louvre,
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Connoisseur," which will be on sale on the first ot that month.
"The Connoisseur"
COLOUR PLATES
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desirous of obtaining loose copies of the
colour plates appearing in each number, can
purchase them at 8d. each or 6/- per dozen.
Many of the plates that appeared in early
numbers of the Magazine are out of print.
Subscribers are requested to send a list
of the subjects required to " The Colour
Plate Department, 95, Temple Chambers,
London. E.C."
" The Connoisseur " Extra Number, No. 2
John DowNMAN, A.R.A
HIS LIFE AND WORKS
By Dr. G. C. Williamson.
LIST OF FULL-PAGE PLATES.
Princess Royal, Daughter of George III.
Queen Charlotte.
Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot.
Miss Mills.
Hon. Mrs. Harcourt.
Earl Temple and Family.
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia.
Mrs. Trevanion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Miniature).
Miss Mary Cruikshank.
A Lieutenant in the Staffordshire Militia.
Mr. Beaumont.
Mary, Countess of Erne. Eldest Daughter of Frederick, Earl of Bristol, with
her Daughter Caroline.
Elizabeth, Lady Templetown.
Dr. Downman, Physician and Author.
Mrs. Downman.
Miss Abbott.
Mrs. Mary Robinson as " Perdita."
Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, and Lady Elizabeth Foster.
Portrait of a Lady.
Miss Bulteel.
Mrs. Bulteel.
The Duchess of Devonshire.
Masters Benjamin and Lewis Way.
Miss Nutt.
Portraits of John Edwin, Comedian, and Mrs. Mary Wells, Actress.
Sarah Kemble (Mrs. Siddons).
Miss Danby.
Mrs. Larking of Clare House, East Mailing.
Miss Farren.
Lady Gordon.
Lady Duncannon.
" The Co//i/oissn/r" lixfra S'lnubcv, No. 2
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Court Dresses and Trains
Dinner and Theatre Dresses
Tailor-Made Gowns
Choice Paris Millinery
Lingerie . Blouses . Corsets, 6rc.
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26 Conduit Street
27 New Bond Street
PAMIS
242 Rue de RivoH
" The Coin/oissatf" Extra NiiDiber, No. 2
This is a specimen page of Hamptons' New Book T25],
''Taste and Distinction in Furnishing/'
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