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History of the Society of Dilettanti xgg
Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A., resigned his shee
membership of the Society in July, 184;. He was speeded by
succeeded in the Presidency of the Royal Aca- ast a e'
demy by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, who was also
elected to be a member of the Society, and its
official Painter, in June, 1848. In i860 a further
inquiry was made into the state of the pictures,
and the whole collection was entrusted in this and
the following years to Mr. John Dujardin, junior,
by whom they were relined, covered with plate
glass, and the frames regilt, prior to the re-
arrangement and rehanging of the portraits in the
Society's new room at Willis's Rooms in King Street,
St. James's.
In 1877 a project was started for reproducing Proposed
by some process of engraving the whole of the serm °f
Society's collection of portraits. Sir Richard West- en&ravm£s-
macott, R.A., communicated with Mr. George Scharf,
junior (afterwards Director of the National Por-
trait Gallery), and received from him an estimate
of the cost of engraving the thirty-one portraits
in question on wood. The cost, however, was
probably- the reason which deterred the Society
from proceeding in the matter.
In February, 185-7, an application was received Applications
from Mr. Peter Cunningham, the manager of the %L f. f
Historical Section of the great Exhibition of Art Manchester,
Treasures at Manchester in that year, requesting South
the loan of the portraits belonging to the Society &'»?*&'*>
for this exhibition; but, after some correspondence, Gallery &c
the Society declined to accede to this request.
In April, 1867, the Society agreed to lend the
whole collection of portraits (except that of Lord
Broughton, not yet received) to the National
Exhibition of Portraits, held at South Kensington,
Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A., resigned his shee
membership of the Society in July, 184;. He was speeded by
succeeded in the Presidency of the Royal Aca- ast a e'
demy by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, who was also
elected to be a member of the Society, and its
official Painter, in June, 1848. In i860 a further
inquiry was made into the state of the pictures,
and the whole collection was entrusted in this and
the following years to Mr. John Dujardin, junior,
by whom they were relined, covered with plate
glass, and the frames regilt, prior to the re-
arrangement and rehanging of the portraits in the
Society's new room at Willis's Rooms in King Street,
St. James's.
In 1877 a project was started for reproducing Proposed
by some process of engraving the whole of the serm °f
Society's collection of portraits. Sir Richard West- en&ravm£s-
macott, R.A., communicated with Mr. George Scharf,
junior (afterwards Director of the National Por-
trait Gallery), and received from him an estimate
of the cost of engraving the thirty-one portraits
in question on wood. The cost, however, was
probably- the reason which deterred the Society
from proceeding in the matter.
In February, 185-7, an application was received Applications
from Mr. Peter Cunningham, the manager of the %L f. f
Historical Section of the great Exhibition of Art Manchester,
Treasures at Manchester in that year, requesting South
the loan of the portraits belonging to the Society &'»?*&'*>
for this exhibition; but, after some correspondence, Gallery &c
the Society declined to accede to this request.
In April, 1867, the Society agreed to lend the
whole collection of portraits (except that of Lord
Broughton, not yet received) to the National
Exhibition of Portraits, held at South Kensington,