John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… 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 English … he lived in Florence. The Ramsays, father and son, left the capital of the Duchy of Tuscany at this time to return to London. John's diary, which ends on 5 May 1784, does not mention the return trip, which proved to be particularly trying … Edgard Peters Bowron and Peter Bjorn Kerber, Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007). 3 . John Ramsay, 'John Ramsay’s Italian Diary', ed. John Ingamells, The Volume of …
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