Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . nine; Richard AVilson was a boy of thirteen. Reynoldswas a child of four, and Francis Cotes was two 3-ears old. Gains-borough was an infant in arms; Ronmey and Wright of Derbycame a few years later. But the Court was not nuich less aforeign Court under George H. than it had been under hisfather. Neither cared a jot for art, and vicAved Avitli equalindifference the claims of the foreign and the native artist.
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . nine; Richard AVilson was a boy of thirteen. Reynoldswas a child of four, and Francis Cotes was two 3-ears old. Gains-borough was an infant in arms; Ronmey and Wright of Derbycame a few years later. But the Court was not nuich less aforeign Court under George H. than it had been under hisfather. Neither cared a jot for art, and vicAved Avitli equalindifference the claims of the foreign and the native , there was a marked impulse in the direction ofart connoisseurship—not always, perhaps, according to know-ledge—under George IL In 1734 the Dilettanti Society wasestablished by a group of five gentlemen, ^\•ho, havingtravelled in Italy, were desirous of encouraging at home a Signs ofa NewEra. 1784] THE REGEKEBATION OF ART. 361 taste for those objects which had contributed so much to theirentertainment abroad. Of course, in 1734, no stigma attachedto the name by which these gentlemen dubbed their of them were expert virtuosi, some men of real MEJIBERS OF THE DILETTANTI SOCIETY, BY SIE, JOSHUA REYNOLDS. (Bij permission of the Dilettanti Society.) They organised expeditions for archffiological research, publishedtravels in the countries where art formerly flourished, establishedart studentships, and generally fulfilled the functions of a com-mittee of taste. In this they Avere supported b}^ the Societyof Arts, founded nineteen years later, and somcAvhat moreutilitarian in its aims. Both societies established prizes for 362 AX ERA OF XEW DElAETUBES. ri742 Hudson, Work. competition amonu artists, and lent their rooms tor exhibitions,and extended to art and artists a patronage which, if not alwaysenlightened, was consistent and sincere. If the Court Avas notmuniticent in its dealings with artists of native birth, it wasnot more so
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