Volume 1

The Farington diary / edited by James Greig.

  • Joseph Farington
Date:
[1922?-1928]
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Credit: The Farington diary / edited by James Greig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to. Lysons remarked that His Majesty has corrected that quick manner of speaking which has been so long habitual to him, & now speaks equally & regularly witht. those repetitions. Turner’s Praise of Scotland Turner I drank tea with. He showed me his sketches made in Scot¬ land.—Those made with black lead pencil on white paper tinted with India Ink and tobacco water, and touched with liquid white of his own preparing are much approved.—Turner thinks Scotland a more picturesque country to study in than Wales. The lines of the mountains are finer, and the rocks of larger masses. February 10.—Turner, Soane, Architect, and Rossi, Sculptor, were elected Royal Academicians. [Those who voted for Turner included Dance, Loutherburgh, Banks, Farington, Russell, Fuseli, Humphry, Smirke, Stothard, Lawrence, Hoppner. Those against him included Sandby, Nollekens, Wyatt, Opie, Northcote, Bourgeois, Beechey, Cosway, Zoffany.] February 15.—Lane [a former pupil of Farington] called and I told him the terms proposed by Lawrence. To give him X50 for the first year, at the expiration of which they would each see what might be proper to be done. I told him Lawrence spoke of his improvement being well pleased with the advance He made, and with what He had done for him, but still it was always necessary that Mr Lawrence should go over the work before He could deliver it.—Lane expressed himself satis¬ fied. He said Flis expences were abt. .£120 a year, including his colour Bill which this year came to near £20.—Mr Lawrence must be spoken to for an allowance on this acct.—I wrote a note to Lawrence open by Lane informing him of Lanes agreement to the terms proposed.—I told Lane that I thought his staying with Lawrence of great importance as it would confirm him in practise & shd. have advised it even had Fie no allowance from him.— Hogarth’s “Rake’s Progress’’ February 28.—Soane called on me.—He purchased the Rakes Pro¬ gress by Hogarth yesterday at Christies for 570 guineas.—Mrs Soane was the bidder & was commissioned by him to go to £1000.—He means to put them up at Ealing.—Soane proposed that Dance & I should meet Tresham and Cosway at dinner at his house.—Speaking of the intercourse which had been among the Academicians, I told him I never did associate but in a public manner with several of the members,—so that their not coming of late to the Club was the only difference it made to me, who myself had seldom been there in the last 2 years. March 2.—I called with Daniell at Parkes in Dean St. and saw a Niobe by Wilson, painted for Sir Peter Leicester,—also Horses drinking by Gainsborough, which was Lord Robert Spencers.—A fine Ruysdael &c.