[258]. Somerset House Wills, Richmond, 161.
[259]. The statement seems to have originated with Horace Walpole (Anecdotes of Painting, Wornum ed. (1888), II., pp. 209–210).
[260]. Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, I., p. 456.
[261]. London Past and Present, III., p. 137.
[263]. A deed of 27th November, 1745, shows “Lady Goodyear” and Mr. Charles Leviez then in occupation. (Midd. Registry Memorials, 1745, III., No. 156).
[264]. Sir Godfrey Kneller left his Great Queen Street property to his wife for her lifetime, with reversion to his godson, Godfrey Kneller Huckle, “provided the surname of Kneller be adopted.” Godfrey Kneller, the younger, died in 1781, and his son, John Kneller, in 1814.
[265]. Bryan’s Dictionary of Artists; Walpole’s Anecdotes, p. 702.
[266]. The Dictionary of National Biography is in error in stating that he added this house to the other.
[267]. Redgrave’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.