A Miniature of John Mealing, waterman
by Ozias Humphrey. 1766.
Exhibited at the society of Artists 1766.
From Notes by Horace Walpole..... on the Exhibitions of the Society of Artists and the free Society of Artists 1760 - 1791
From the Walpole Society Journal.
1766.no 71. A portrait in miniature, good, head of old John,
porter of the Academy, this picture was purchased by the King, he had been a
waterman, was chosen by Roubiliac for a Model, having been rowed by him to
Vauxhall, when he went thither to place his figure of Handel.
[Graves, p. 125, says 'John Mealing, dressed in scarlet
lined with fur'. Whitley, p. 370, quotes Walpole 'Good head of Old John, porter
of the Academy', and refers to his vol. i, p. 184, where he says that the King
bought this picture
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