Chapter LXX: Canto II: Footnote 70

Thomas Tomkins (1743–1816), author of the _Beauties of Writing_
(1777). He wrote elaborate ornamental titles for books and taught
handwriting.

Footnote 71:

Mary Robinson (1758–1800), actress, and mistress of George, Prince of
Wales, later George IV.

Footnote 72:

Elizabeth Billington (1768–1818), one of the greatest of English
singers, of Saxon birth, English by marriage and training.

Footnote 73:

Mengs speaks feelingly of ‘the little varieties of form in the details
of the portraits of Vandyke.’ [W. H.]

Footnote 74:

_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2.

Footnote 75:

‘The large picture of the Pembroke family at Wilton, is a finer
commentary on the age of chivalry than Mr. Burke’s Reflections.’ [W.
H.]

Footnote 76:

Catherine Maria Fisher (d. 1767), the courtesan.

Footnote 77:

See Warton’s _The History of English Poetry_, 1781, vol. II., pp.
249–251.

Footnote 78:

The Speech on the Nabob of Arcot’s debts.

Footnote 79:

_Macbeth_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

Footnote 80:

‘A young artist of the name of Day,[82] in company with Mr. Northcote
and another student, taking leave of some pictures of Titian in a
gallery at Naples said, with tears in his eyes,—“Ah! he was a fine old
mouser!” This contains more true feeling than volumes of poetical
criticism. Mr. Northcote has himself given a striking description of
Titian, in his elegant allegory called the Painter’s Dream, at the end
of his life of Sir Joshua.[83] It is worth remarking, that
notwithstanding the delicacy and ingenuity with which he has contrived
to vary the characters of all the other painters, yet when he comes to
his favourite modern, he can only repeat the same images which he has
before applied to Correggio and others, of wanton Cupids and attendant
Graces.’ [W. H.]

Footnote 81:

Sir Robert Strange (1721–1792), who fought for the Stuarts at Culloden
and elsewhere, one of the greatest of line engravers.

Footnote 82:

Alexander Day (1773–1841). See vol. VI., _Mr. Northcote’s
Conversations_, p. 347 and note.

Footnote 83:

See _ante_, p. 66 and note.

Footnote 84:

Wordsworth’s _Excursion_, Book VII., 1014–16.

Footnote 85:

Pope: Eloisa to Abelard, l. 74.

Footnote 86:

Roger de Piles (1635–1709), painter and voluminous writer on art.

Footnote 87:

Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy (1611–1665), French painter and writer of
a poem on the art of painting.

Footnote 88:

Benjamin West (1738–1820) succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 as
President.

Footnote 89:

Dryden, _Absalom and Achitophel_, I. 550.

Footnote 90:

_Essay on Criticism_, III. 66.

Footnote 91:

Goldsmith, _The Traveller_, 42.

Footnote 92:

See a letter in _The Champion_, September 25, 1814. [W. H.]

Footnote 93:

Occasional assistance may be derived from both, but, in general, we
must trust to our own strength. We cannot hope to become rich by
living upon alms. Constant assistance is the worst incumbrance. The
accumulation of models, and erection of universal schools for art,
improved the genius of the student much in the same way that the
encouragement of night-cellars and gin-shops improves the health and
morals of the people. [W. H.]

Footnote 94:

Pope, _Moral Essays_, III. 338.

Footnote 95:

Congreve’s Comedy, 1695.

Footnote 96:

Edward Bysshe (fl. 1712), whose _Art of English Poetry_ was published
in 1702.