John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… Image François Ferrière, ‘John Ramsay, 1768-1845 ; son of Allan Ramsay the artist’, 1794, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, PG 1478. Résumé In 1782, John Ramsay undertook a journey to Italy with his father Allan, King George … Ramsay (1768-1845) wrote of his life and activities as he travelled through Italy in company of his father, the famous portrait painter Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). From the first pages, the reader understands that it was not a diary intended … journey, 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 …
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