* The National Portrait Gallery has also a silhouette, attributed
to Ozias Humphry, R.A., which was presented in 1883 by Sir Theodore
Martin, K.C.B. Then there is the portrait by Hogarth shown at South
Kensington in 1867 by the late Mr. Studley Martin of Liverpool. It
depicts the poet writing at a round table in a black cap,
claret-coloured coat and ruffles. Of this there is a wood-cut in the
later editions of Forster's 'Life' (Bk. iii, ch. 14). The same
exhibition of 1867 contained a portrait of Goldsmith in a brown coat and
red waistcoat, 'as a young man.' It was said to be extremely like him in
face, and was attributed to Gainsborough. In Evans's edition of the
'Poetical and Dramatic Works' is another portrait engraved by Cook,
said, on some copies, to be 'from an original drawing'; and there is in
the Print Room at the British Museum yet another portrait still,
engraved by William Ridley 'from a painting in the possession of the
Rev. Mr. Williams,' no doubt Goldsmith's friend, the Rev.
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