Jameson, Anna: Companion to the most celebrated private galleries of art in London: containing accurate catalogues, arranged alphabetically, for immediate reference, each preceded by an historical & critical introduction, with a prefactory essay on art, artists, collectors & connoisseurs (London: Saunders and Otley, 1844)

the queen’s gallery. 69
curious trio to have met together here, and why selected it
were difficult to guess. I have heard that they were cut
to fit their present places.)
KNELLER (Sir Godfrey)^ b. 1649 ; d. 1723.
185 The Czar Peter the Great.—Extremely fine; painted
when he was in England, for William III.
LELY, (Sir Peter), b. 1617 ; d.. 1680.
186 Anne Hyde—Duchess of York, daughter of the Lord
Chancellor Clarendon, and mother of Queen Mary and
Queen Anne.
RIGAUD (Hyacinth),(?) b. 1659; d. 1745.
187 Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray<,

GREEN DRAWING ROOM.
RAMSAY (Allan), b. 1713 ; d. 1784. [Son of the author of “ The
Gentle Shepherd,” and much patronised by George III. “ There was
Ramsay, of whom Sir Joshua used to say that he was the most sen-
sible of all the painters of his time, but he has left little to shew it; his
manner was dry and timid.”—Northcote.~\
188 The Duchess of Brunswick—sister of George III.
DANCE (Nathaniel), R.A., b. 1730; d. 1811.
[“ Dance (he that was afterwards Sir Nathaniel Holland) drew the
figure well, gave a strong likeness, and a certain studied air to his
portraits; yet they were so stiff and forced, that they seemed put into
a vice.”—NorthcoteJ]
189 The Duke of York—brother of George III.
COPLEY (John Singleton), b. 1737; d. 1815.
[A native of Boston, in America, who came over to England in
1776. He painted history and portrait; drew correctly; but was in