| Description | Set of entries titled '1813'.
Each entry records client making the payment and/or sitter name and amount paid. There are columns for money in pounds [l]; shillings [s] and pence [d]. The running total for money is given at the bottom of each page and carried over to the next. In some instances Beechey has indicated the size of portrait paid for, e.g. half length, 3 quarter length.
Payments recorded on p. 21, 1813:
Mr Hesketh in full
8 Feb
-Of Sir A. Clarke to make up half price for whole length of himself;
22 [Feb]
-Of Sir J. Leicester for last payment of the Duke of Gloster [Gloucester];
26 [Feb]
-Of Mr Pearse for 2 3 q[uarte]r pictures;
16 Mar
-Of Mr Wilkins for his portrait, half;
May
-Of Sir A. Clarke;
14 [May]
-Of Do [ditto] [Sir A. Clarke] in full for a whole length in robes of the Bath.
Payments recorded on p. 21v, 1813:
11 Jun
-Of Sir Bellingham Graham as half for whole length;
-Mr Sandford a draft dated Jul 1 1813 for last payment of the Duke of Cambridge;
26 Jul
-Of Sir J. Reade as first payment himself and sister;
-Of Lady Arden for a portrait of Mr Percival 3 q[uarte]r;
-Mr Laforet, portrait of his wife;
-Mrs Gambier for 2 portraits, Mary and Edward, 3 q[uarter]rs and altering for her own;
-Of Sir J. Read, last half;
There follows the usual total of the year's earnings (£1173 and 6 pence).
Therafter a last entry dated 23 Jun
-Of Mr Free (a payment of £52 and 10 shillings) but no revised total for the year is given. |