Cleaning a full-length picture2.2.0
A new straining frame hung to the picture of King Charles2.6
Lining, cleaning, & repairing several damaged parts1.10.0
Cleaning & repairing 2 Landskips12.0
Cleaning four small pictures, retouching them 10.0
Cleaning do. two pictures of Venus & Cupid1.10.0
Cleaning & retouching an historical picture of Paul Veronese.10.0
Four Large Historical Pictures clean’d, repaired & varnish2.2.0

Other interesting items are:—

Chairman2/6
Shoe buckles10d.
Paid for letter10½d.
"„7½d.
„4½d.

The following prices, etc., are copied from a priced catalogue of the sale of the effects of John Leigh Philips, Esq., sold at Manchester in October, 1814, and are useful in identifying sketches, etc., not named in the List of Pictures:—

41Wright, of Derby.—Four studies, taken on the spot in Italy£1100
42
(Mr. Meynell.)		„Three: A study for the figure in the picture of the Dead Ass, a fragment in Indian ink, and a ditto of Walls, in colours fine£270
44„Six drawings from Antiques, made on the spot, in outline pen£3136
45„Two: A Ruin and a Landscape, with figures in Indian ink£200
46„Three: Interior of a Cabin, Hero & Leander, & Dog£110
47„Two: Vesuvius and the Interior of a Church£120
48„Two: View of a Ruin in Rome, Indian ink, and a ditto in colours; capital£300
49„Four: Three Studies by Wright, and a Landscape with figures by Wilson£3100
50
(Mr. Hardman.)		„Two Cavern Scenes on the Shores of Italy. Fine and highly-finished drawings made on the spot, and are the originals from which the two celebrated pictures in the collection of the late Wm. Hardman, Esq., were painted£10100
51„One: Portrait of himself, in a fancy dress; capital£440
Wright’s Drawings, £32 17 6.

OIL PAINTINGS.

13
(Leeming.)		Wright, of Derby.—A Landscape with a Waterfall. A spirited representation of a stormy effect£26156
18„The Lake of Albano. Spirited sketch£18180
19
(Bateman.)		„The Old Peasant Bewailing the Death of his Ass. From Sterne£34130
21„A Cavern Scene, upright£1656
25
(Mr. E. Flack.)		„Neptune’s Grotto, near Tivoli. A very highly-finished and beautiful picture of a favourite scene from nature£2430
26
(H. & A. Wright.)		„An Eruption of Vesuvius, destroying the vineyards. Presumed by Mr. Wright to be the best picture he painted of the subject£6300
27
(Mr. Pares.)		„The Lighthouse on Fire. A beautiful and carefully-finished picture, full of harmonious effect of the union of the moon and fire-light£36150
28
(Ablet.)		„A View of the Bay of Naples, from Pausilipo, with Vesuvius in the distance. Comp. to last lot, of a sweet sunny effect, and highly finished£4530
29
(H. & A. Wright.)		„Rocks and Trees. A very spirited and clever study£3090
30
(H. & A. Wright.)		„A Cavern Scene, with a Bridge. Painted with all that close delineation of the effects of nature, for which this master is so justly celebrated£4200
31
(H. Wright)		„The Bridge and Waterfall at Rydal, in Westmoreland. A charming scene represented with great success. The stones seen at the bottom of the water give an effect to the picture at once curious and natural£4860
33
(Gould.)		„The Dead Soldier. This acknowledged chef-d’œuvre of this admired master, uniting great knowledge of grouping, excellent drawing, and correct colouring, with a fine feeling of sentiment, decidedly proves the assertion of Mr. Fuzeli, in his Biographical Notice of Mr. Wright, that “he once eminently succeeded in the pathetic”£31500

Memd., 15th Sep., 1787.—Remains to be paid to me by Mr. John Milnes, on account of the picture of Gibraltar, two hundred guineas, and by right he ought to pay the Int. of that money from the time he has withheld the commission from me to replace two other pictures in the room of the two he has of Vesuvius & the Girandolo, agreeable to his own letters. He also owes me twenty pounds for my journey to Wakefield, according to his own agreement.

J. WRIGHT.