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Muses. We hear of Mr. Englehart as living on 

 the road to Richmond, one of several of the 

 name who rose to note as artists or engravers. 

 Another German, who practised as a limner or 

 miniature-painter the photographers of that day 

 and who appears to have designed the coinage 

 of that reign, was Jeremiah Meyer, so thriving 

 as to have a home at Kew as well as one in town. 

 Mrs. Papendiek states that he caught his death 

 by a dutiful visit of inquiry at Kew House after 

 the King's first serious illness ; Meyer had him- 

 self been ailing, and on that errand he suffered 

 from the ill-humour of the page Ernst once 

 George's favourite attendant, but about this time 

 in disgrace who " kept poor Meyer waiting for 

 him in a room that had just been washed, and 

 which was therefore cold and damp. He returned 

 home in haste, but fresh cold succeeded. A re- 

 lapse came on, and poor Meyer was no more." 

 He has a monument in Kew Church, with an 

 epitaph by Hayley. 



Mrs. Papendiek's chief friends among the 

 artistic colony settled hereabouts were the 

 Zoffanys, who had a house at Strand on the 

 Green, where indeed the master was not always 

 at home. That erratic German genius, John 



