The dilettanti society, no. 2 portrait group of seven figures placed round a table. On the left of the composition is (1) sir watkin williams wynn, his right hand on an open book, showing a reproduction of an etruscan oenochoe, his left pointing to an amphora placed in the centre of the table; (2) mr. J. Taylor, afterwards sir john taylor, stands at the back, holding a glass in his right hand and a piece of precious material in his left; (3) mr. Stephen payne-gallwey sits in front of him, and is drinking out of a glass; (4) sir william hamilton, the husband of romney's and nelson's lady hamilton, seated in the centre of the group and wearing the order of the bath, points with his right hand to the open book on the table; (5) mr. Richard thompson, standing at the back slightly to the right of the centre of the composition, with his right hand raises his glass above his head; a sash of office is over his right shoulder; (6) mr. Spencer stanhope; (7) mr. John lewin smyth of heath. [1]. Date: 1777/79.
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