Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1817 August 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing his illness, mentioning that he had a serious relapse a few days after he last wrote them and saying "I hope the worst is over; & that by degrees I shall be restored to my usual state of bad health, of which I have now learnt the comparative value"; recalling a gentleman known to them both carrying "a huge portfolio of huge drawings, every one of which I knew must be slowly examined"; mentioning that, in a recent letter, Lord Aberdeen had spoken of "the exhibition in the British Gallery not more favorably than you have done"; commenting at length on the paintings of Wright (probably Joseph Wright) and Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg ("the one has too much of niggle niggle, the other of dash splash"); mentioning the fact that Loutherbourg painted transparencies for the stage early in his career; adding "I have said common transparencies; for among those we saw at Dr. Monro's, some were already gold, & bore the stamp of Gainsborough's genius"; saying that Benjamin West's powers seem to increase with age; discussing his sketch of Death on the Pale Horse; saying that he thinks West's sketches are often better than the paintings he then makes from them; critiquing a painting of West's that he calls Christ before Pilate (this may be Christ Rejected); saying that he has been interested in Benjamin Haydon since he read Haydon's letter on the death of his mother; commenting on a painting that Haydon is currently working on; saying that he thinks Christ is always the most difficult figure to "conceive & express" and that perhaps Haydon should paint Christ first; apologizing for writing such a long letter, but saying that he has been "led on by your interesting remarks on pictures & painters, to say all that came into my head on the same subjects"; asking to be remembered to Lady Beaumont and saying that his son has just returned from a short excursion to Ireland.