… Image Charles Loraine Smith (of Enderby), ‘A Sunday concert’, © National Portrait Gallery London, NPG D14563, 1782. Abstract The ‘Sunday evening musical parties hosted by Dr. Burney’ were informal gatherings of … (1723-1792), Arthur Young (1741-1820), Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), and, when in London, composers such as Antonio Sacchini (1730-1786) and Ferdinando Bertoni (1725-1813) and singers such as the famous … Lucrezia Agujari (1743-96), but also travellers such as James Bruce (1730-94), lionized by all the cognoscenti of London. 1 In 1782, Dr Burney’s musical parties were eventually considered important enough to be caricatured by Charles …