Several of the above-mentioned Rules having of late been broke through, they are now Printed by our order, and signed by Us, the present Ladies and Governors of the Assembly.
- ANNE BARNES.
- DOROTHY EVERY.
- ELISABETH EYRE.
- BRIDGET BAILEY.
- R. FITZHERBERT.
- HESTER MUNDY.
[7] The first Exhibition was held in April, 1760. The Catalogue of 1761 has two satirical subjects after Hogarth, and that for 1762 has a preface from the pen of Dr. Johnson. There were no Exhibitions in 1779, 81, and 82, nor were there any between 1783 and 1790. The last was in 1791.
[8] The sitters in this picture were old John Wilson, an inmate of the Devonshire almshouses, Mr. Burdett, and the artist himself.
[9] Captain Salmon, who then lived at Breadsall Priory, near Derby, sat to Wright as Romeo.
[10] The Frontispiece Plate in this volume is taken from this painting, now in the possession of the Honourable Mrs. Griffith, Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire.
[11] “The Mr. Hurleston who went with Mr. Wright of Derby, to Italy in 1773, was my great uncle. He was a very promising young artist, but immediately after his return to this country, was killed by lightning while riding across Salisbury Plain in a storm. His name occurs in the early catalogues of the Royal Academy.”—Extract from a letter from F. Y. Hurleston, President of the Incorporated Society of British Artists, August, 1850.
[12] This has reference to the first voyage of his nephew, Richard Wright, in the service of the East India Company; two other members of the family were previously in that service.
[13] Now in the possession of the writer, with many other sketches.
[14] Simpson’s History of Derby.