He is happy to be commissioned by the Duke to paint a copy in oils of the portrait which he is to do of the
Pope for the
Duke of Cumberland; he has not yet been able to arrange a sitting with the Pope, who is ill and is said to be worried about predictions that he will die in the present year; there is a heat-wave in Rome; he discusses his attempts to paint in oils, which he finds difficult, and has completed a portrait of
Mr. Fawkener, for his sister, Humphry's friend,
Mrs. Bouverie.