[draft] [Ozias Humphry], to the [Duke of Dorset]

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

HU/1/140

Title

[draft] [Ozias Humphry], to the [Duke of Dorset]

Date

[c.1774]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

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.