John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… artist’, 1794, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, PG 1478. Abstract In 1782, John Ramsay undertook a journey to Italy with his father Allan, King George III’s Painter in Ordinary. Their tour lasted two years and for the entire duration of … diaries written by such a young Grand Tour traveller have come down to us. Most often it is through correspondence with the family who remained in Great Britain or the diaries kept by the tutors accompanying the young travellers that we … Britain as he was also famous in France and Italy, where he had studied between 1736 and 1738. Before making the trip with his son John, he had returned to Italy twice from 1754 to 1757, then from 1775 to 1777. The fame of the painter as …
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