Charles Small Pybus Gainsborough London pride

London pride

His reputation remained exceptionally high throughout the 18th century and into the 19th: when Dulwich's founders

which seems possible (note on photograph mount in Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie

reflects certainly the impact of Van Laer's famous figure style and subject matter on the younger artist

Charles Small Pybus Gainsborough London prideCharles Small Pybus (1766 1810) was MP for Dover from 1790 and Lord of the Admiralty 1791 7 and of the Treasury 1797 1803. He was more noted for his pomposity and ambition than for any achievement. Beechey remarked on his irritable temper and said that 'he was very vain of His knowledge of pictures, but in reality knew nothing abt. them' (The Diary of Joseph Farington, XI, New Haven and London, 1983, p. 3882). He was a friend and business partner of