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LANSDOWNE COLLECTION.
trimmed with dark fur . the face beautiful, with rather
too much of conscious power to be perfectly attractive;
neither are the features and expression high bred; they
are those of a handsome page, rather than of a woman of
rank and refinement. This portrait must have been
painted early, somewhere about 1760, before Sir Joshua
began to play tricks with his palette. It is most delicate
in execution, and in extraordinary preservation compared
with others of his pictures—quite fresh and brilliant. L.H.
154 Portrait of Lady Anstruther.—Also an early picture ;
similar in beauty and in delicacy of colour.
155 The Sleeping Girl.—Ot which there is a duplicate in the
possession of Mr. Rogers: purchased at the sale of Lady
Thomond’s pictures. L. H.
156 A Girl with a Muff. L. H.
157 The Strawberry Girl.—Painted, I believe, in 1772, and
sold to Lord Carteret for 50 guineas. Of this picture,
also, there is a duplicate in the possession of Mr. Rogers. B.
158 Hope nursing Love.*—Formerly in the possession of
Lord Holland, by whom it was bequeathed to Lord Lans-
downe. This picture was one of those which Sir Joshua
sent to the first exhibition of the Royal Academy, April 26,
1769. Two repetitions exist of the subject: one was in the
collection of Henry Hope, Esq.; the other, in that of Lady
Thomond.
* According to Northcote, this is the portrait of Miss Morris, daughter of
Valentine Morris, Esq., of Piercefield, in Monmouthshire, and once governor of
one of the West India islands. “ This very beautiful young lady was, from the
unexpected misfortunes of her family, reduced to the necessity of seeking some
employment for a livelihood, and being supposed to have the requisite talents
for the stage, she was advised by her friends to attempt it as a profession. Sir
J. Reynolds, Dr. Johnson, and many other illustrious persons who were her
particular friends, attended on the first night of her appearance on the stage,
when she was to perform the character of Juliet, at Covent Garden Theatre;
but from the exceeding delicacy both of her mind and frame, she was over-
powered by timidity to such a degree, that she fainted away on her first entrance,
and with much difficulty was prevailed on to go through her part. Shortly
afterwards she fell into a decline, and died the following May, in the same
week in which her picture was first exhibited to the admiring public, as * Hope
nursing Love.’ ”
LANSDOWNE COLLECTION.
trimmed with dark fur . the face beautiful, with rather
too much of conscious power to be perfectly attractive;
neither are the features and expression high bred; they
are those of a handsome page, rather than of a woman of
rank and refinement. This portrait must have been
painted early, somewhere about 1760, before Sir Joshua
began to play tricks with his palette. It is most delicate
in execution, and in extraordinary preservation compared
with others of his pictures—quite fresh and brilliant. L.H.
154 Portrait of Lady Anstruther.—Also an early picture ;
similar in beauty and in delicacy of colour.
155 The Sleeping Girl.—Ot which there is a duplicate in the
possession of Mr. Rogers: purchased at the sale of Lady
Thomond’s pictures. L. H.
156 A Girl with a Muff. L. H.
157 The Strawberry Girl.—Painted, I believe, in 1772, and
sold to Lord Carteret for 50 guineas. Of this picture,
also, there is a duplicate in the possession of Mr. Rogers. B.
158 Hope nursing Love.*—Formerly in the possession of
Lord Holland, by whom it was bequeathed to Lord Lans-
downe. This picture was one of those which Sir Joshua
sent to the first exhibition of the Royal Academy, April 26,
1769. Two repetitions exist of the subject: one was in the
collection of Henry Hope, Esq.; the other, in that of Lady
Thomond.
* According to Northcote, this is the portrait of Miss Morris, daughter of
Valentine Morris, Esq., of Piercefield, in Monmouthshire, and once governor of
one of the West India islands. “ This very beautiful young lady was, from the
unexpected misfortunes of her family, reduced to the necessity of seeking some
employment for a livelihood, and being supposed to have the requisite talents
for the stage, she was advised by her friends to attempt it as a profession. Sir
J. Reynolds, Dr. Johnson, and many other illustrious persons who were her
particular friends, attended on the first night of her appearance on the stage,
when she was to perform the character of Juliet, at Covent Garden Theatre;
but from the exceeding delicacy both of her mind and frame, she was over-
powered by timidity to such a degree, that she fainted away on her first entrance,
and with much difficulty was prevailed on to go through her part. Shortly
afterwards she fell into a decline, and died the following May, in the same
week in which her picture was first exhibited to the admiring public, as * Hope
nursing Love.’ ”