John Downman, ; his life and works . ng at theRoyal Academy. In the following year Downman is representedat the Royal Academy by two works only. One he calls SalvatorMundi, and the other, Miss Randalls, represented as the infantSt. Cecilia. The next year is notable for the commission givento Downman by the Duke of Richmond for a picture called the Grape House. It is unfortunate that this picture appears to beno longer in existence, as there is no work by Downman to whichthere are so many contemporary references as to this one. Bysome persons it is spoken of as the decoration or scenery o
John Downman, ; his life and works . ng at theRoyal Academy. In the following year Downman is representedat the Royal Academy by two works only. One he calls SalvatorMundi, and the other, Miss Randalls, represented as the infantSt. Cecilia. The next year is notable for the commission givento Downman by the Duke of Richmond for a picture called the Grape House. It is unfortunate that this picture appears to beno longer in existence, as there is no work by Downman to whichthere are so many contemporary references as to this one. Bysome persons it is spoken of as the decoration or scenery of agrape-house, and it has been suggested that it was a series ofportraits intended to be hung in a sort of winter garden ; but thisis not very likely to have been the case. Downman himselfdescribes the picture as The Grape House, following the namewith these four lines : Five nymphs the mansion of Eudoxus bred, Who every sense possessed ; by virtue led. Engagd in elegant and useful arts; But most their grape-house produce won all FREDERICK THE GREAT, KING OF PRUSSIA. BY JOHN DOWNMAN SIGNED {Hotigkitis Collection) His Lite and Works Walpole speaks of it as a charming picture, quite lovely ; anda sketch-book reveals to us who three of the five nymphs w^ere,besides allowing us to guess the name of the fourth. It containsthe portraits of Lucy Perfect, 1809, for the grape-house,Isabella, CD. 1809, for the grape-house, Margaret Holmes, 1809;and Peggy Cooper, 1809, afterwards Mrs. Baines, of Eltham (seepage xl.), who was probably the fourth of the five beautiful Isabella CD. is undoubtedly Downmans own daughter, Isa-bella Chloe (see page 59), to whose affectionate care of her fathersrough sketches we owe the fact that the album from the CunliffeCollection is still in existence and preserved at the BritishMuseum. Isabella had two brothers, and this sketch-bookcontains a drawing of a boy done in black chalk and stump and alittle red chalk, inscribed in the artists ha
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