BIB_ID
399452
Accession number
MA 8735
Creator
Northcote, Maria, active 19th century.
Display Date
1825 May 26.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.1 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks, addressed to "Miss Moore / at James Carrick Moores Esqr / Stranraer / NB."
Docketed.
Maria Northcote, the sister of the painter James Northcote, is sometimes referred to as "Mary Northcote."
Miss Moore was the daughter of the surgeon and biographer James Carrick Moore.
One of two letters in the Morgan collection from Maria Northcote to Miss Moore (see also MA 8736).
Docketed.
Maria Northcote, the sister of the painter James Northcote, is sometimes referred to as "Mary Northcote."
Miss Moore was the daughter of the surgeon and biographer James Carrick Moore.
One of two letters in the Morgan collection from Maria Northcote to Miss Moore (see also MA 8736).
Summary
Discussing a recent portrait of George IV by her brother, the death in April 1825 of the painter Henry Fuseli, the appointment of the painter Henry Thomson (succeeding Fuseli) as Keeper of the Royal Academy, and an exhibition at the British Institution in which Northcote, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir David Wilkie, William Collins, and John Jackson showed paintings. The King appears to have liked Northcote's portrait of him, with some caveats; Maria writes that "the King has seen the print and was much pleased with it, and after he was in bed ordered that the print should be taken out of the frame and brought to him, he then sat up in his bed and with a pencil made on the print some little alterations on the ringlets of hair, and in the curls, and in some other little things....".
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