Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

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HAMPTON COURT
examples, as Prince of Wales and as King, in the Garter
robes. There is a good Kneller George I. George II.'s
three elder daughters, so well known to us from Lord
Hervey's Memoirs, are No. 514, painted by Maingaud,
artificial and unattractive, and more prettily the Prin-
cesses Emily and Caroline, in No. 517.
Near them are
their brothers,William Duke of Gloucester(ifit be he)
and Frederick Prince of Wales, the latter by Vanloo.
The whole family of " Prince Fred " is also represented
in No. 361, with a portrait of their father, then dead,
on the wall. George III. appears several times in
the galleries, notably among the collection of West's
pictures, and in the picture of his review of the Tenth
Hussars by the " attractively superficial " Sir William
Beechey, most prolific of all English painters. There
are several portraits of Queen Charlotte and her
children, all interesting, and some pretty ones of some
of the Princes when young. On the whole, the
Hanoverian royal family could hardly be more completely
studied than at Hampton Court.
The prominent personages of the time are also well
represented. There are two portraits by Gainsborough
of Hurd,Bishop of Worcester, tutor to George III.,a
kind, good man, whose face gave no great opportunity
to the artist. His Dr. Fischer (No. 352) is far more
significant, a speaking likeness indeed, full of vivacity
and genius. Next to it is the charming Colonel St.
Leger, in red uniform, so happy, light, sympathetic,
and yet so expressive of the fact that there is little to
express. There are several Hoppners, too,but, strange