...years as profits from pandering to a vulgar crowd of parvenu collectors: "The old nobility and landed proprietors are gone out. Their place is supplied...speculators, iron mine men, and grinders from Sheffield, etc., Liverpool and Manchester merchants and traders." Such consumers do not love the true classics...

...He particularly disliked all paintings of the nude figure. In the same letter to Townshend he said: The old nobility and land proprietors are gone out....speculators, iron mine men, and grinders from Sheffield, etc., Liverpool and Manchester merchants and traders. This class of men are as much in the hands of...