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… deeds – wooing the Czarina by pretending to be Charles XII and flogging penitents in the Sistine Chapel – stem from Horace Walpole (1717-1797), 12 whose lifelong antipathy towards Dashwood makes him figure as a less reliable source. While … it must have happened during or shortly after Dashwood’s Divan Club, which held its last meeting on May 25 th 1746. 12 . Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third Vol. 1, 2018 [1845], p. 172f. 13 . Nathaniel Wraxall, …
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… selling point for the Georgian portrait painter. 3 . George Vertue, ‘Vertue Notebooks: Vertue III’, The Volumes of the Walpole Society (vol. 22, 1933–4), p. 25. Portraitists’ studios were, indeed, places where polite manners were … works, exhibiting large numbers of portraits, or just a chosen few. On one occasion even, in 1781, recorded by Horace Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting in England , a concert was organised in Thomas Beach’s showroom in Bath, 9 … hung to serve as a bait for prospective clients and feed their aspirations to momentary celebrity in paint. 9 . Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England: 1760-1795, ed. F.W. Hilles and P.B. Daghlian (New Haven and London, …
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… began at Charterhouse school and who joined the Club c.1704-5. 7 . Mentioned as ‘the Patriots that saved Britain’ by Horace Walpole, quoted in Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons Composing the Kit-Cat Club (London: Hurst, Robinson & co, 1821), p. … Wit, [the Kit-Cats] are fallen into Criticisms upon Policy; I might say AGENTS in it’. 10 A new Kit-Cat member, Robert Walpole (1676-1745), was one of the leaders of a Commons grouping called the ‘Kitlings’, and in June 1705 four Kit-Cats …
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