F. CRITICISMS FROM GOLDSMITH'S 'BEAUTIES OF ENGLISH POESY.'
APPENDIX A
PORTRAITS OF GOLDSMITH.
PORTRAITS of Goldsmith are not numerous; and the best known are those of
Reynolds and H. W. Bunbury. That by Sir Joshua was painted in 1766-70,
and exhibited in the Royal Academy (No. 151) from April 24th to May 28th
in the latter year. It represents the poet in a plain white collar,
furred mantle open at the neck, and holding a book in his right hand.
Its general characteristics are given at p. xxviii of the
'Introduction.' It was scraped in mezzotint in 1770 by Reynolds's
Italian pupil, Giuseppe, or Joseph Marchi; and it is dated 1st
December.* Bunbury's portrait first appeared, after Goldsmith's death,
as a frontispiece to the 'Haunch of Venison'; and it was etched in
facsimile by James Bretherton. The plate is dated May 24, 1776. In his
loyal but despotic 'Life of Goldsmith' (Bk. iv, ch. 6), Mr. John Forster
reproduces these portraits side by side; in order, he professes, to show
'the distinction between truth and a caricature of it.
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