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Memorials of an Eighteenth Century Painter (James Northcote)
Excerpt from Memorials of an Eighteenth Century Painter (James Northcote) James Northcote is one of the most notable links between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Born early in the reign of George II., he lived to paint the portrait of John Ruskin; he exhibited with Reynolds and he exhibited with Turner; he heard Johnson talk to Goldsmith and Garrick speak his mind of Coleman; and many of these recollections of his youth, recited fifty years later by the veteran, whose mind had lost nothing of its freshness and whose tongue nothing of its Devon twang, were set down from his lips by Hazlitt, no inconspicuous member of a circle not less distinguished than Sir Joshuas. Northcote is rem...
