He was astonished to receive her letter. Master Byng sat to him as he thought the child a pretty subject, and to make a present of the drawing. But the drawing of
Mr. Byng and his portrait in crayons must be paid for. He grants that they have a large family, but he cannot enquire into those matters when employed to produce a portrait. As a professional man he survives by his labours and his prices are universally allowed to be very low.
Opposite in original volume: Joseph Singleton engraving of Humphry's portrait of Gerard Frederick Finch Byng, page of honour to the Prince of Wales.