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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Seven Years of Professional Activity and Social Enjoyment. The Literary Club. Hogarth. The Royal Academy Visit to Paris. Reynolds had about 140 sitters in 1762, including the Princess Amelia; the Dukes of Bedford and Marlborough; the Duchess of Douglas; Lords Monteagle, Middleton, Pembroke, Allan, Portsmouth, Enrol, Campbell, Ilchester, Lenox, Northumberland, Spencer, Shaftesbury, Pulteney, Eglintoun, and Harrington; and Ladies Keppel, Russell, Beachey, Waldegrave, Northampton, Pollington, Edgcumbe, Lenox, Strangways, Coke, Bagot, Hal- kerton, Poynter, Egremont, Colebrook, Guilford, Napier, and Yarmouth. Other sitters were Dr. Barnard, Provost of Eton; Col. Pownal, late Governor of Massachusetts; Charles James Fox; Gen. Napier; and Sir Walter Blackett. The artists' exhibition of this year charged an ad- misson-fee for the first time, and the catalogue had a preface written by Dr. Johnson. Wilson andBEEFSTEAK CLUB. 45 Gainsborough sent pictures; and Reynolds was represented by portraits of Lady Keppel sacrificing to Hymen, Lady Waldegrave as Dido, and David Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy. In the latter, the great actor is casting an appealing look toward his first love, Tragedy, whom he is forsaking for the service of Comedy. The portrait of Lady Waldegrave is a graceful work, showing that famous beauty clasping her own child, as Cupid, to her bosom. During this year we find Reynolds at the Beefsteak Club, then, and for a half-century after, one of the noblest associations of London, including among its members, Wilkes, Hayman, Hogarth, Garrick, Churchill, Lord Sandwich, and other eminent men. He also appears at the table of Mr. Nugent, Goldsmith's patron; Dr. Johnson, who had just been pensioned by the Government; Hayman and Wilton, the a...
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