Regarding the Great Room decoration
Thomas Philips was comissioned to produce a set of engravings of the Great Room paintings
Thomas Philips was comissioned to produce a set of engravings of the Great Room paintings
Thomas Philips was comissioned to produce a set of engravings of the Great Room paintings
This is likely to have been produced by the Society for James Barry, as requested in a letter to the Society. See AD.MA/700/10/1/30
Regarding: moving the 2 portraits of the Presidents; re-varnishing the paintings; and prints/engravings produced. The note attached to the first page is a continuation of additions to the Elysium engravings.
Barry had requested that the portaits of the Society's first two presidents, Folkestone and Romney, be moved. He had encountered opposition to this from the President and Vice-Presidents.
This letter, in part, is reprinted in the 1801 Transactions. This relates to letter AD.MA/700/10/2/9. Includes a copy of a letter sent to the Earl of Liverpool (officer of the Society) Jul 03 1801 regarding additions to the paintings - naval pillar in The Triumph of the Thames.
This is subsequent to his letter dated 25/10/1801, but reproduces substantial parts of it. Elements of this thus also appear in the 1801 Transactions.
The letter addresses: the Triumph of the Thames and the inclusion of the Naval Pillar; and moving the two portraits of the Society's first two Presidents and his subsequent problems with this