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dated 1701, and a copy is in the National Portrait Gallery. A political
exile, St. Evremond identified with the Huguenot community in London
despite his catholic faith, and received a pension from Ralph !4ontagu.
By 1703 it seems that Parinentier had settled in Yorkshire,
for Ralph Thoresby notes in his Diarygn 12th March, 1703, that he had
sat to Parmentier for his own portrait. This may well be the portrait
now at Sledmere. Two portraits of Henry and Anne Cooke of Ouston,
Doncaster York, signed and dated 170k were sold at Sother'a in 1978,
and Parmentier also painted Sir Francis Chaplin in 1713. Although it
has been suggested that painters such as Mercier and Parmentier,
although of Huguenot origin, did not identify in any way with the
Huguenot community in Britain, it is more than probable that both
painters were initially attracted to York, by the existence of a
Huguenot community in that city. A letter from Parmentier to Thoresby
dated July 30th, 1707 sueststhat his son attended a French school
in Leeds run by a Mr.Seignior. It is significant that after !4ercier's
death in 1760, his widow Dorothy Clapham, who was not of Hugu.enot origin,
set up as a printseller and stationer in Soho. Dorothy exhibited four
miniatures at the Society of Artists in 1761 and in the same year was
appointed by the Society to look after the miniatures.8
Two other painters of Huguenot origin who came to England from
Switzerland in 17k3 are Barthelemy flu Pan and David Morier. The latter
painted an equestrian portrait of Lord Ligonier now at .Anglesey Abbey.
The former was employed by Frederick, Prince of Wales 8g.n 17k5, when he
was paid £80 'For two pictures of His Royal Highness'. Du Pan also
painted Dr.Maty, librarian at the British Meum, the portrait still
hangs in the Board Room cf that institution. It is probable that Du Pan
also visited Dublin, as an engraving after his portrait o 8 the first
Earl of Harrington is lettered 'flu Pan Pinxt. Dublin 1750'. Yet another
Swiss artist to visit England was Jean Etienne Liotard, the son of
Antoine Liotard, a refugee from Montelimar in France, who settled in
Geneva where his son was taught by the painter Gardelle, possibly a
relation of the notoriois miniaturist Theodore Gardelle, also born in
Geneva, who was working in London in 1759 Liotard's presence is recorded
in England 1703-5 and his sitters included David Garrick, and Mrs. Garrick
Isaac Gosset, George III as Prince of Wales, a posthumous portrait of
Frederick, Prince of Wales, Princess Augusta and their nine children,