[124] Ibid.
[125] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 282.
[126] Galt’s Life of West, pt. ii. p. 25.
[127] Ibid. pp. 36-38.
[128] Strange’s Enquiry into the Rise and Establishment of the Royal Academy (1775).
[129] Pye’s Patronage of British Art, p. 134.
[130] The original thirty-six Academicians were—Benjamin West, Francesco Zuccarelli, Nathaniel Dance, Richard Wilson, George Michael Moser, Samuel Wale (a sign-painter), J. Baptist Cipriani, Jeremiah Meyer, Angelica Kauffmann, Charles Catton (a coach and sign painter), Francesco Bartolozzi, Francis Cotes, Edward Penny, George Barrett (Wilson’s rival), Paul Sandby, Richard Yeo, Mary Moser, Agostino Carlini, William Chambers (the architect of Somerset House), Joseph Wilton (the sculptor), Francis Milner Newton, Francis Hayman, John Baker, Mason Chamberlin, John Gwynn, Thomas Gainsborough, Dominick Serres, Peter Toms (a drapery painter for Reynolds, who finally committed suicide), Nathaniel Hone (who for his libel on Reynolds was expelled the Academy), Joshua Reynolds, John Richards, Thomas Sandby, George Dance, J. Tyler, William Hoare of Bath, and Johann Zoffani. In 1772 Edward Burch, Richard Cosway, Joseph Nollekens, and James Barry (expelled in 1797), made up the forty.—Wornum’s Preface to the Lectures on Painting.
[131] Pye’s Patronage of British Art, 1845, p. 136.
[132] Royal Academy Catalogues, Brit. Mus.
[133] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 381.