our club, how little she was entitled to Waller’s praise, he told me that two fine pictures of her and her sister by Vandyke were at Petworth in Sussex (Lord Egremont’s), and that Sacharissa appeared to have been very handsome.
Lady Falconberg, Cromwell’s daughter, lived till the year 1712. Old Lord Ilchester told Lord Macartney that he remembered her when he was a boy visiting at his father’s, and that all the younger part of the family used always to get near her on account of her having a great quantity of perfumes about her.
Sir J. Reynolds when he called on me yesterday (July 10), on looking over the elder Richardson’s drawings, said he understood his art very well scientifically; but that his manner was cold and hard. He was Sir Joshua’s pictorial grandfather, being Hudson’s master. He was always drawing either himself or Pope, whom he scarcely ever visited without taking some sketch of his face. His son was intended for a painter, but being very near-sighted soon gave up all thoughts of that profession. He was a great news and anecdote monger; and in the latter part of his life spent much of his time in gathering and communicating intelligence concerning the King of Prussia and other topics of the day; as Dr. Burney, who knew him very well, informs me. His Richardsoniana are not uninteresting.
