Gc de Orat Quae non Artificis, Sed populari trutina Estimantur. They are not weighed according to private Prejudice but in the Balance of Public opinion. SCENE AND PORTRAIT-PAINTER TO TIE ARGYLE-ROOMS, AND OTHER IN TWO VOLUMES. Embellished with appropriate and humorous Ingravings. THE SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. Qa cuique est fortuna hodie, quam quisque secat spem, Virg. En. X. 107. Jeune ou vleux, riche on pauvre, enfin Juif ou Chretien, Regnard. ined. Old and young, rich and poor, Churchman, Baptist, or Jew, B. S. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. STATIONERS'-COURT, LUDGATE STREET; AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS IN BOND-STREET, PIC. 1809. ·PREFACE.' A few detached Ideas on the Life, Talents, and Works of the AUTHOR. SIR BARNABY SKETCHWELL was born in Derbyshire, in the year 1768. His parents were not rich, but of a most respectable and ancient family inthe county. Honesty and virtue rocked his cradle; they whispered their heavenly principles into his infant car; and he walked ever since in the path of rectitude.. His heart was naturally good, his mind education perfectioned both. " liberal Music and poetry amused his youthful days; painting and morality were the ob jects of his attention, since he approached the meridian of his life. * He sang well; wrote little; painted much his fame will last as long as the love of virtue and an innate well-directed zeal against vice will find partizans and friends. ed The honour of knighthood was bestowupon him by the best of Sovereigns, as a token of esteem for one of his best subjects. His situation, his fortune, the extent of his talents, the variety of his connexions, enabled him to bring within his compass both the zenith and the nadir of society. He loved all men, pitied many, and imitated nobody-he was an original. |