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Bath or Bristol, perhaps both, before going to London in 1799. 
She had many distinguished sitters, including several members of 
the Royal family, and I shall be specially glad to hear of any wax 
portrait of the period which may be by her.* The one I have here, 
of arather earlier date, bears no signature, but is believed to be an 
autograph portrait of Joseph Plura, an Italian modeller and sculptor, 
who married the daughter of Ford, the sculptor: it belongs to 
Mr. J. 8. Bartrum, who is a direct descendant of theartist.t 
Leaving the field of conjecture and turning to the safe ground 
of facts, the first artist of whom I can give you any definite 
particulars is Thomas Worlidge, a painter and etcher, who 
flourished in the middle of the eighteenth century. Neither the 
year nor the place of his birth is ascertained, though it is stated 
that he was born in 1700. He practised both in Bath (where he 
was much in vogue), and in King Street, Covent Garden, dying 
at Hammersmith, Sept. 23, 1766. During the greater part of 
his life he painted portraits in miniature, and he also attempted 
them, seemingly with less success, in oils and crayons, and many 
of his portraits are engraved, notably George II. (engraved both 
by Houston and Spooner), and John Evelyn, the author of 
“ Sculptura, or the History and art of Chalcography,” 1769. His 
reputation is based upon his highly finished miniatures on vellum, 
etc., in pencil and Indian ink (which Walpole alludes to as having 
grown astonishingly into fashion), and his work with the etching 
* Since this paper was read I have been so fortunate as to finda 
most beautiful portrait of Charles James Fox by this lady. It is both 
bold and delicate, a good portrait and a fine piece of modelling, and 
is signed “ C. Andras, 1801.” 
+ A suspicion I had that Bone, the enameller (who, before finally 
abandoning the minor art for the greater, was a flower painter at the 
porcelain works of Plymouth and Bristol), might have painted 
portraits in Bath, was confirmed by Major C, E. Davis, who showed 
a most interesting example of his work, a fine enamel portrait of a 
Bath lady. Bone’s work, it is needless to say, ranks among the very 
best ever produced in this country. 
