234 Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



ful mood, which actions will be descriptive of their 

 respective characters." 



Stubbs painted another picture, including Wedgwood 

 and his family, but no portrait of Wedgwood surpassed 

 that by Sir Joshua Eeynolds, which is copied as the 

 frontispiece to this book. Another portrait was painted 

 by Wright of Derby, but that by Sir Joshua stands 

 unrivalled. 



Wedgwood had two of his sons at Bolton, for educa- 

 tion. He began to think that he was giving them 

 education that would be of little use to them in after- 

 life, and thought it would be better to give them some 

 athletic exercises which would establish their health 

 and improve their constitution. He consulted his 

 devoted friend Dr. Darwin, who approved of his views, 

 and thought it a very idle waste of time for the boys, 

 who were intended for trade, to learn Latin, as they 

 did not learn it to any tolerable degree, or retain 

 what they learnt. Much better, he thought, that they 

 should learn modern languages French and German 

 as well as make them proficient in accounts. The boys 

 were accordingly taken from the boarding school at 

 Bolton, and sent to a school in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of Etruria. 



During these pleasant family meetings, Wedgwood 

 was sedulously pursuing his own profession. He was 

 in constant communication with Sir William Hamilton, 

 who supplied him with casts from bas-reliefs and other 

 antique subjects. Sir William in acknowledging his 



