John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… John Ramsay was fourteen years old while his father, Allan, was sixty-nine. Allan Ramsay, who had opened his portrait studio in London at the end of the 1730s, had quickly established himself as one of the most popular artists in the … John studied mathematics and perfected his mastery of Latin with Father François Jacquier (1711-1788); 1 it was in the studio of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), 2 an extremely popular portrait painter, that he improved his drawing techniques. …
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