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...King on the installment plan-with interest. George Ill's wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg requested a sketch of Florence's Uffizi Gallery from a compatriot named Johann Zoffany. The elegant composite result (see opposite page) displeased the Hanoverian monarchs because of the prominence it gave to visiting Englishmen, even though it reproduced more than a dozen masterpieces of Italian art. Later scholars did blow ups of each of the copied paintings and found that the varied brushwork of early masters was imitated with a genius forger's fidelity...
Through the mercenary auspices of such as Consul Smith, and the thousands of Englishmen who discovered Italy on the Grand Tour, the masters of Florence and Venice built the base of British taste. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768 its president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, who canonized the images of Raphael and applied the Renaissance's grand manner to contemporary subject matter. In time, Gainsborough, Benjamin West, Turner and Constable became academicians. Royal patronage had bent the Italian Renaissance to its own visual empire, and the royal collection swelled with homegrown products. Before, Britain had only appreciated...
CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. With a chuckle rather than a sneer, a band of young Englishmen keep their eyes on the oddball and carry a big slapstick in this hilarious revue...
...middle of the magazine contains six pages of drawings by S.A. Pizer and W.S. Donnell caricaturing various Englishmen as Mods and Rockers. It's the kind of feature you can see they spent a lot of time on and you really want to find amusing. But what's funny about the Duke of Windsor's being "something of a Mod" while "the Duchess is another story?" Is it simply that for either of them to be either a Rocker or a Mod is ludicrous? Some personal quirks hinted at? Anyway...
...History. . ." In London William Pitt was one of the few men who shared the clarity of Adams' vision; in opposing the Boston Port Bill, one of the Coercive Acts, he prophesied that "if that mad and cruel measure should be pushed. . . England has seen her best days." Most Englishmen disagreed: "They will be Lyons whilst we are Lambs, but if we take the resolute part they will undoubtedly prove very meek." The "resolute part" was taken, making the Revolution inevitable...