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Title: Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Anecdotes of painting in England
Subjects: Painters Artists
Publisher: London : Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby, W.J. and J. Richardson, R. Faulder, T. Payne, and J. White
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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to pique, and fome-thing of envy in the artift towards Sir Jofliua Reynolds, andthis opinion is fuggefted by the following anecdotes: In theexhibition of the Royal Academy 1770, there was a picturepainted by Mr. Hone, entitled*, Two Gentlemen in Maf-querade. They were reprefented as capuchin friars, regalingthemfelves with punch. When this picture was fent for ad-miflion, one of the perfonages was reprefented as fqueezing alemon, while the other was ftirring the liquor with the crucifix,at the end of his rofary : but the Council confidered the lattercircumftance as too indecorous to allow the picture beingexhibited in that ftate, and the artift was requefted to alter thecrucifix. This requeft Avas complied with; but Mr. Hone wasmuch offended, when, in truth, he ought rather to have beenpleafed with their having pointed out an impropriety, which * The heads were the portraits of Captain Francis Grofe, F. S. A. well knownfor his writings on Antiquities, and Theophilus Foreft, Efq. might
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r />.•».•• .>.-/i». tfll%M€$£ «*«»<! . Anecdotes of Painting. 1 o 1 might not have ftruck him upon the firft idea of his picture.However, the defired alteration was made, and a ladle intro-duced, which he painted with a fubftance eahly warned away,and the picture was again difplayed at his own exhibition, inits primitive ftate. The other picture which was the leading feature of this ex-hibition, reprefented an old man, at half-length, the fize of life,painted after the fame model from which Sir Jofhua Reynoldshad painted his Count Ugolino. This piclure, which Mr. Honecalled the Conjurer, was intended as a fatire upon Sir Jolhuasmethod of compofing his pictures*. Yet Mr. Hones ridiculewas not very apparent, for his figure reprefented little morethan an old man with a wand in his hand, performing incanta-tions, by which a number of prints and fketches were madeto float in the air, all of which were representations of thofe ori-ginals from which Sir Jofhua had take

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