| Description | Set of entries titled 'Picture painted and monies received 1807'.
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. 8, 1807:
Jan
-of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales for a half length of his R[oyal] H[ighness] sent to the Duke of Kent;
-of Mr Froster [corrected to Foster in transcript] for a copy of Mr Langley;
-of Mr Des Enfans for a portarit of Earl St Vincent;
2 Feb
-2 months after sight of the corporation of Dublin for a large portrait of H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland;
-Of Mr Claxton as half 3 q[uarte]r;
-Of Lady Hood for a Bishop half length of Sir Sam[ue]l [Hood], painted for Earl St Vincent.
Payments recorded on p. 8v, 1807:
15 [Feb]
-of Sir H. B. Neale for a half length of himself painted for Lord St Vincent;
-Of Mr Webb as half;
18 [Feb]
-Of Mr Webb in full;
-Of Mrs Raikes in part;
-Of Mrs Tatnall as half;
-Of Miss Dee for H.R.H. Princess Sophia of Gloster for copy of the late Duke [of Gloucester] and frame;
-of Capt[ain] Stevenson for H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland for half length of himself and 3 q[uarte]r of H.R.H. the late D[uke] of Gloster [Gloucester] with frames, packing etc;
26 May
-Of L[or]d Breadalbane in full for pictures and half length frame.
Payments recorded on p. 9, 1807:
4 Jun
-Of Miss Mellon [text struck through] as 1st payment;
8 [Jun]
-Of Mr Raikes as last payment for Mrs Raikes with a hand in addition to the 3 q[uarte]r price;
13 [Jun]
-Of Mr Tatnall in full for a picture of the two Miss Tatnalls;
-Bishop of Chester;
-Of Mr Greenwood for a whole length of the Duke of York presented by him to the military asylum;
-Of the Drapers Company for a large picture of Lord Nelson.
Payments recorded on p. 9v, 1807:
-Of Lord St Vincent for a portrait of Capt[ain] Gray;
17 Aug
-Of Capt[ain] Agar for a portrait of his brother Bishops half length;
-Of Do [ditto?] for a picture of the soldiers;
-Of Mr Brown for copy of his father;
-Of H.R.H. the Duke of York;
16 [Dec]
-Of Mr Pearse for 3 pictures of himself;
-Of the Duke of Gloster [Gloucester];
-Of Mr Claxton in full.
There follows the usual total of the year's earnings (£2152 and 6 pence). |