[copy] Ozias Humphry, to Lord Radstock

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

HU/6/37

Title

[copy] Ozias Humphry, to Lord Radstock

Date

27 Feb 1808[?]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Replying to Radstock's enquiry about the portrait of his cousins. He regularly saw the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in Rome and painted Prince William and Sophia, Princess of Gloucester. When the Duchess commissioned him to paint the three Ladies Waldegrave [Charlotte , Elizabeth and Anna] he believed he had freedom to work as he wished. His practice was always that if portraits were not acceptable they should not be paid, and the Duchess disapproved of the figures being revealed so through the drapery. The picture is at Mr. Gifford's but needs cleaning. He is happy for the picture to go to Lord Euston, and were his health not so poor he would allow it as a gift.

Annotated by Humphry that the letter "was intended" for Radstock.

Language/Script

But for the annotation the hand is not that of Humphry.