...cheerfulness and perfect composure. He desired to be buried near his friend Kirby in Kew churchyard ; and that his name only should be cut on his gravestone....was made between them. Gainsborough exclaimed to Sir In the spring which followed the death of Gainsborough, his widow, who survived him several years,...

...progress of his fatal malady precluded all hopes of life, he desired to be buried in Kew Churchyard, and that his name only should be cut on his grave-stone. He sent for Sir Joshua, and was reconciled to him; then exclaiming, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is...

...cheerfulness and perfect composure. He desired to be buried near his friend Kirby in Kew churchyard ; and that his name only should be cut on his gravestone....of the company," and immediately expired — August 2d, 1788, in the sixty-first year of his age. Sheridan and the President attended him to the grave....

...his death-bed who does he send for but Reynolds ; and with him by its side, and uttering the words, " We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company," died. To these qualities we must add that, in person, Reynolds added the graces of the gentleman to...

...Schomberg, which he inhabited until his death, in 1788. His last words were to Sir Joshua Eeynolds, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company." Gainsborough was eminently handsome, his disposition benevolent, his conversation winning and attractive,...

...man can do nothing easy." (Franklin.) " Let me die to the sounds of delicious music." (Mirubeau.) " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company." (Gainsborough.) Some of your correspondents, I have no doubt, could greatly enlarge this collection....

...all petty animosities and rivalries were forgotten, and the last words of Gainsborough were addressed to Sir Joshua : " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company." His drawings are numerous and masterly — no artist has left behind him so many exquisite relics of...

...wave of life heaves to and fro. Reynolds bends his dull ear to catch Gainsborough's failing words: "We are all going to heaven — and Vandyke is of the company." A few days after, at about two o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of August, 1788, in the sixty-second...

...express desire, his name only was cut on the gravestone. Shortly before he expired, he exclaimed, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company." At Brentford Church, Tooke, author of the " Diversions of Purley," officiated for a time. Sion House,...

...second-floor room : he sent for Sir Joshua Reynolds, and was reconciled to him ; then exclaiming, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company," he immediately expired. Part of the house was subsequently occupied by Robert Bowyer for his " Historic...