Thicknesse, Philip: A Sketch Of The Life And Paintings Of Thomas Gainsborough, Esq. ([London], 1788)

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after, we three met, and they two shook
hands and seemed as good friends as ever;
but, days, weeks, and months passed
and no pifture appearing, either at his
house or mine, I began to think it then
became my turn to be a little angry
too; for X suspested, and I suspe&ed
right, that he had determined never to
touch it more! and I wrote him a letter
and told him so, adding, that Mrs. Thick-
nesse was certainly entitled to the pisture,
either from his justice or his gener-
osity! that I would not give a farthing
for it, as a mark of hisjustice, but ifhe
would send it to me from his generosity
unfinisshed as it was, I should feel myself
obliged to him; and he fent it as itwasf
Nothing but knowing the goodness of his
D 2 heart.