MEMOIRS
OF A PICTURE:

CONTAINING

THE ADVENTURES OF MANY CONSPICUOUS CHARACTERS,
And interspersed with a variety

OF AMUSING ANECDOTES OF SEVERAL VERY EXTRAORDINARY
PERSONAGES CONNECTED WITH THE ARTS;

Including

A genuine Biographical Sketch of that celebrated original and eccentric Genius,

The late

MR. GEORGE MORLAND.

Drawn from the tolerably authentic source of more than twenty years' intimate
acquaintance with him, his family, and connections.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A COPIOUS APPENDIX,

Embracing every interesting subject relative to our justly admired
English Painter, and his most valuable works.

BY WILLIAM COLLINS,

Author of the Slave Trade, a Poem; an Ode to Sir Jeffery Dunstan, an Heroic

Effusion; with several detached Pieces in Prose and Verse; several of which have

appeared in most of the public Papers, under various signatures, since the Year

1788, to the present Period.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life,

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar, Act iv. Scene 3.

VOL. III.

London:

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CONTENTS.

VOLUME III.

CHAPTER I.

THE painter, returning from the pawnbroker, meets

his benefactor-Confusion and regret for what he had

done-The captain repairs to Gripus, who is no Jew,

farther than in principle, and terrifies him into a resig-

nation of the picture, &c.

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CHAPTER II.

The mutual joy of the lovers at so unexpected a meet-

ing-Sketch of the history of Miss Becket, afterwards

the celebrated Lady B- and her lover, the Earl of

in which is a continuation of the earl's story and

family-Anecdotes of Lady Rachel and the handsome

B-

footman

An accident no way uncommon, which leads to the

gratification of female curiosity-Attention of the Becket