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mony, and his pall being borne up by three
Dukes, two Marquisses, and five other noblemen.64
64The following account of the ceremonial was written
by a friend the day after the funeral, and published in
several of the News-papers.
" On Saturday last, at half an hour after three o’clock,
was interred the body of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. Doc-
tor of Laws in the Universities of Oxford and Dublin,
Principal Painter to his Majesty, President of the Royal
Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Fel-
low of the Royal Society, and Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries,
“ He was interred in the vast crypt of the Cathedra!
Church of St. Paul, next to the body ol Dr. Newton,
late Bishop of Bristol, himself an eminent critick in
Poetry and Painting, and close by the tomb of the famous
Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of that great edifice*
The body was conveyed on the preceding night to the
Royal Academy, according to the express orders of his
Majesty, by a condescension highly honourable to the
memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and gratifying to the
wishes of that Society of eminent Artists. It lay that
night, and until the beginning of the funeral procession,,
in state, in the Model-Room of the Academy,
" The company who attended the funeral, assembled in
the Library and Council-Chamber ; the Royal Acade-
my in the Exhibition-Room.
" The company consisted of a great number of the most