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GEORGE GARRARD, A.R.A. 



(Born 1760. Died 1S26.) 



r^ EORGE GARRARD was born on 31st May, 

 ^-^ 1 760. He came of a family of artists, tracing 

 his descent to Marcus Garrard who came from 

 Bruges to England in 1580, and became painter 

 to Queen Elizabeth. Among other important 

 works executed by him was a picture of the pro- 

 cession on the occasion of the Queen's visit to 

 Hunsdon House, near Ware, Hertfordshire, in 1584. 

 Marcus Garrard died in 1635. The name in con- 

 nection with art next occurs in the Stafford Papers, 

 among which we find two letters dated respectively 

 9th November and 13th December, 1637, from "Mr. 

 Garrard," who writes of Charles I. as a great patron 

 of the Arts : " In evidence of the King's affection for 

 his pictures," he says, "a great room is being erected 

 in the first court at Whitehall, betwixt the guard- 

 chamber and the banqueting-house, which will cost 

 the King ^2,500, because he will not have his 

 pictures in the banqueting-house hurt." The new 

 room was only a temporary structure, built of 

 weather-boarding; and it was intended to house the 



