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ENGLISH, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 419
I have something to sell him)—
Tell each other to rue
Yon Devonshire crew
For sending so late
To one of my state.
But ’tis Reynold’s way
From Wisdom to stray
And Angelica’s * whim
To be frolick like him;
But alas! your good worships, how could they be wiser
When both have been spoiled in to-day’s Advertiser?"
It was after Goldsmith’s death that Mary Horneck married Col.
Gwyn of the 16th Dragoons, who eventually became an equerry to
the King. On his appearance at Court, Fanny Burney noted that
“Colonel Gwyn is reckoned a remarkably handsome man and he is
husband of the beautiful eldest daughter of Mrs. Horneck.” Of Mary
Horneck, now Mrs. Gwyn, Fanny Burney wrote in 1788, she was “as
beautiful as the first day I saw her; all gentleness and softness;”
and a year later, as “soft and pleasing and still as beautiful as an
angel.”
Mrs. Gwyn became a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Char-
lotte and died in London in 1840, at the age of eighty-seven.
Catherine Horneck (“Little Comedy”) married in 1771 the artist,
Henry William Bunbury. Their son, Charles John Bunbury was
painted at the age of eight or nine, by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
John Hoppner born in Whitechapel, London, of German parents, in
1758, was a follower of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He exhibited at the
Royal Academy and became a Court-Painter and a rival of Lawrence.
Hoppner married in 1782 the daughter of Mrs. Wright, the American
sculptress and maker of wax-works, who often sat to him as a model.
Hoppner exhibited his first picture at the Royal Academy in 1780;
and, through the patronage of the Prince of Wales, became a fashion-
able portrait-painter. After the death of Gainsborough and Reynolds,
Hoppner and Lawrence commanded the field of art. Hoppner’s
charming canvases, which are very characteristic of the period, are
gaining in vogue day by day and bring very large prices.
Angelica Kauffman, the famous painter.
I have something to sell him)—
Tell each other to rue
Yon Devonshire crew
For sending so late
To one of my state.
But ’tis Reynold’s way
From Wisdom to stray
And Angelica’s * whim
To be frolick like him;
But alas! your good worships, how could they be wiser
When both have been spoiled in to-day’s Advertiser?"
It was after Goldsmith’s death that Mary Horneck married Col.
Gwyn of the 16th Dragoons, who eventually became an equerry to
the King. On his appearance at Court, Fanny Burney noted that
“Colonel Gwyn is reckoned a remarkably handsome man and he is
husband of the beautiful eldest daughter of Mrs. Horneck.” Of Mary
Horneck, now Mrs. Gwyn, Fanny Burney wrote in 1788, she was “as
beautiful as the first day I saw her; all gentleness and softness;”
and a year later, as “soft and pleasing and still as beautiful as an
angel.”
Mrs. Gwyn became a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Char-
lotte and died in London in 1840, at the age of eighty-seven.
Catherine Horneck (“Little Comedy”) married in 1771 the artist,
Henry William Bunbury. Their son, Charles John Bunbury was
painted at the age of eight or nine, by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
John Hoppner born in Whitechapel, London, of German parents, in
1758, was a follower of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He exhibited at the
Royal Academy and became a Court-Painter and a rival of Lawrence.
Hoppner married in 1782 the daughter of Mrs. Wright, the American
sculptress and maker of wax-works, who often sat to him as a model.
Hoppner exhibited his first picture at the Royal Academy in 1780;
and, through the patronage of the Prince of Wales, became a fashion-
able portrait-painter. After the death of Gainsborough and Reynolds,
Hoppner and Lawrence commanded the field of art. Hoppner’s
charming canvases, which are very characteristic of the period, are
gaining in vogue day by day and bring very large prices.
Angelica Kauffman, the famous painter.