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• 1 2015-12-12T22:25:36-08:00 Some Account xi 9 Some Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds plain 2018-04-29T19:50:34-07:00 >his life he saw this portrait, he was sur-
  prised to find it so well done; and comparing
  it with his later works, with that modesty
  which always accompanies genius, lamented
  that in such a series of years he should not
  have made a greater progress in his art.⁹
   
  On Christmas-day, 1746, his father, a
  man highly respected in his native county,
  died ; and left our young painter to raise, as
  he could, the fabrick of his own fortune.
  After spending a few more years in the prac-
  tice of painting, partly in London10 and
  partly in Devonshire, where many of his early
  essays yet remain, he became acquainted with
   
  by young Reynolds about the same time, in the Collec-
  tion of Lord Eliot, at Port Eliot in Cornwall.
   
  ⁹ He made the same observation on viewing the pic-
  ture of a Boy reading, which he also painted in 1746; an
  admirable piece, which was sold by auction among other
  of his works in 1796, to Sir Henry Englefield, Bart, for
  thirty- five guineas.
   
  ¹⁰ At this period he lived in St. Martin’s Lane, which
  was then a favourite residence of Artists ; nearly opposite
  to May’s Buildings,