John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… had the opportunity to develop his network of relations and to perfect his social education during the many dinners and salons to which he was invited. In Rome, he went to visit James Byres regularly and was thus able to frequent many … very fine landskape by Claud Lorrain .’ (Ramsay 93) In Naples and Florence, he was very regularly invited to dinners and salons organised by the British diplomats Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803), Ambassador to the court of Naples, and Sir … earlier, on 30 November 1783, Ramsay had already had the opportunity to meet the King of Sweden when he took part in a salon held by Lord Cowper (1738-1789), an event which he described in these terms: ‘At 8 with Mr Dawkins to Ld Cowper's …
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