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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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statues atRome and Florence, was procured. Ihese wereset out as models, and young artists were invited,by public advertisement, to make the gallery aschool for the study of art. In consequence of this foundation of the Royal Academy. In 1770 itcontained upwards of twenty-five statues, andamong them may be noted the Apollo Behidere,the Gladiator, the Venus de Medici, the DancingFaun, Group of Hercules and Antaeus, the Rape ofthe Sabines, and a variety of casts from the TrajanColumn, (S:c. The value of such a school inLondon, at a time when there were no railwaysand other facilities for foreign travel, can hardly beexaggerated. Among the artists who owed someof their early art-training to this school, the SomersetHouse Gazette mentions John Parker, a painter ofhistorical portraits, long resident in Rome; JohnHamilton Mortimer, the pupil of Robert Edge Pine(known to his friends as Friar Pine), who out-strip()ed all his compeers in the drawing of the ^VhUelhll.1 A PATRON OF THE ARTS. 379
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Plan of Westminster. (From Norden's Survey, taken in Queen Elizabeth's reign, 1593.) - OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Whitehall. antique figure, and obtained several prizes from theSociety of Arts for drawings made here; RichardCosway, the miniature painter, and WiUiam Parrs,whose productions figured on the walls at the firstexhibition of the Royal Academy. This artist wasa great traveller, and much patronised by the LordPalmerston of that day. Another was John A.Grosse, a native of Geneva, and a pupil of Cipriani;another was William Parry, son of a blind Welshharpist, who obtained several prizes for drawingsmade in this gallery, and afterwards was a favouritepupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Parry made a draw-ing of the Dukes gallery itself, into which heintroduced several portraits : to the curious thediscovery of this representation of a place so memo-rable would be a prize indeed. The Duke of Rich-mond, too, was a liberal patron of the meritoriousartists of his time, as is proved by their numerousworks in the Gallery at Goodwood. In otherrespects the Duke was often attacked f

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