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• 1 2015-12-12T22:12:49-08:00 Some Account x 4 Some Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds plain 2017-01-15T23:25:08-08:00
  lected this period of his life, he always spoke
  of it as so much time thrown away, (so far
  as related to a knowledge of the world and
  of mankind,) of which he ever afterwards
  lamented the loss. However, after some
  little dissipation, he sat down seriously to
  ^he study and practice of his art; and he al-
  ways considered the disagreement which
  induced him to leave Mr. Hudson as a very
  fortunate circumstance, since by this means
  he was led to deviate from the tameness and
  insipidity of his master, and to form a man-
  ner of his own.
   
  While in this career, the first of his per-
  formances which brought him into any con-
  siderable notice, was the portrait of Captain
  Hamilton, father of the present Marquis of
  Abercorn, which he painted so early as in
  the year 1746.⁸ When at a late period of
   
  ⁸ It is now in the possession of the Marquis o£ Aber-
  corn ; and there is a portrait of the same gentleman with
  his children around him, a small family-piece, painted