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History of the Society of "Dilettanti 207
Society were, with the exception of the two great
groups by Sir Joshua Reynolds, deposited under the
care of one of the members, Sir William J. Farrer,
at 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. At last the erection
of the new Grafton Galleries in Grafton Street,
Bond Street, afforded the Dilettanti exactly the home
which they required, a large banqueting-room, con-
venient both for their meetings and the display of
their pictures, having been constructed in that
building. It was unanimously decided to make of
this their new home, and all the portraits belonging
to the Society were hung there, including the two
groups by Sir Joshua Reynolds; a special vote of
thanks being passed to the trustees of the National
Gallery for the care which they had taken of
them.
Meanwhile the flow of new members has continued New
as usual. In 1889 was elected M. Waddington, members.
the Ambassador of France, who had been a Rugby
and Cambridge scholar before he elected to adopt
the French nationality, and was in later life a master
of archaeological and numismatic science; as well as
Lord Savile, an English diplomatist who revived
the traditions of the eighteenth century by his love
of art and antiquities, and his prosecution of
excavations on Italian soil. In the same and the
next following years the public service sent Mr.
Spencer Walpole, Sir Ralph Thompson, Sir Nigel
Kingscote, Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff, Sir Charles
Fremantle, and Lord Loch; the British Museum
furnished two new representatives in the persons of
its chief, Sir E. M. Thompson, and one of its family
trustees, Mr. George Cavendish Bentinck; the Bench
and Bar contributed Sir Francis Jeune, Mr. Under-
down, Q^C, and Mr. Darling, QC)., now Judge; the
Society were, with the exception of the two great
groups by Sir Joshua Reynolds, deposited under the
care of one of the members, Sir William J. Farrer,
at 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. At last the erection
of the new Grafton Galleries in Grafton Street,
Bond Street, afforded the Dilettanti exactly the home
which they required, a large banqueting-room, con-
venient both for their meetings and the display of
their pictures, having been constructed in that
building. It was unanimously decided to make of
this their new home, and all the portraits belonging
to the Society were hung there, including the two
groups by Sir Joshua Reynolds; a special vote of
thanks being passed to the trustees of the National
Gallery for the care which they had taken of
them.
Meanwhile the flow of new members has continued New
as usual. In 1889 was elected M. Waddington, members.
the Ambassador of France, who had been a Rugby
and Cambridge scholar before he elected to adopt
the French nationality, and was in later life a master
of archaeological and numismatic science; as well as
Lord Savile, an English diplomatist who revived
the traditions of the eighteenth century by his love
of art and antiquities, and his prosecution of
excavations on Italian soil. In the same and the
next following years the public service sent Mr.
Spencer Walpole, Sir Ralph Thompson, Sir Nigel
Kingscote, Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff, Sir Charles
Fremantle, and Lord Loch; the British Museum
furnished two new representatives in the persons of
its chief, Sir E. M. Thompson, and one of its family
trustees, Mr. George Cavendish Bentinck; the Bench
and Bar contributed Sir Francis Jeune, Mr. Under-
down, Q^C, and Mr. Darling, QC)., now Judge; the