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[ “One day, in the month of July, 1789, while finishing the portrait of the Marchioness of Hereford, he felt a sudden decay of sight in his left eye. He laid down the pencil, sat a little while in mute consideration, and never lifted it more. His sight gradually darkened, and within ten weeks of the first attack his left eye was wholly blind.” (Allan Cunningham.) For some time after this he attended to his duties as President of the Royal Academy, and he delivered his last address to the students in 1790. Sir Joshua died in his sixty-ninth year, February 23, 1792—ED.]
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[ Wednesday, November 18.—-ED.]
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[ Covent Garden.—ED.]
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[ A comedy by Reynolds, originally produced at Covent Garden, May 15, 1789.—-ED.]
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[ Sir Robert Gunning, the bride’s father.—ED.]