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Mr Reynolds: the eminent Sir Joshua (1723-1792), for whom Seeker sat
in July 1764 and September 1765, paying him £52-10-0 on 14 September,
1764. The portrait at Lambeth Palace appears to be the original. A
variant of it at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, which was said "to have been
at one time at Lambeth, then withdrawn by the family'' and replaced by
a replica, is unsigned. [John Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait
1559-1835 (London, 1981), pp. 349-50].
Vanderbank: John Vanderbank (1694P-1739), whose portraits were
especially in vogue during the reign of George I. The portrait of Seeker
at Lambeth Palace Library which is dated c. 1730-35 and listed as by an
unknown artist is probably the Vanderbank (Ingamells, English Episcopal
Portrait, p. 348).
Ramsay: Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), the Scots portraitist, whose
reputation was quickly established after his return from studying in
Italy. After 1738 he worked in Edinburgh and in London. Horace
Walpole by 1759 was acclaiming him with "Mr Reynolds . . . our
favourite painters, and two of the very best we ever had." His success
was marked by his appointment as painter-in-ordinary to George III.
Among the several versions of Seeker's portrait by Ramsay the one at
Lambeth Palace is dated 1740 and another at Canterbury deanery 1743
(Ingamells, English Episcopal Portrait, p. 348).
Hudson: Thomas Hudson (1701-1779), who had been trained by
Jonathan Richardson the elder, succeeding him as € *'the most fashionable
portrait painter of the day.'' He painted many of the celebrities of
his time including Handel and George II, and enjoyed considerable
episcopal success in the latter 1740's and 1750's. Hudson then began to
be eclipsed by his onetime pupil and assistant, Joshua Reynolds. The
Hudson portrait of Seeker, reduced in size as a result of war damage, is
at St. James's church, Piccadilly (Ingamells, English Episcopal Portrait, p.
349).
Mr Clarke: William Clarke (1696-1771), fellow of St. John's college,
Cambridge, who was rector of Buxted from 1724 to 1768. He became
prebendary residentiary of Chichester in 1738, and chancellor of the
same diocese in 1770. He was a noted antiquarian, an authority on
Roman, Saxon and early English coins. In a letter regarding the
visitation (2 January, 1764) Seeker warmly commended Clarke for "the
accurate reports concerning the parishes which you have taken the pains
to visit at my request" (Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, IV, pp. 378-79).
my Sussex peculiars included parishes in the deanery of Pagham:
Bersted (South), All Saints Pallant (in Chichester), East Lavant,