ABSTRACT
I am three parts English and one part Scotch. On my father's side I know only by his portrait my grandfather, painted as a boy with a bow in his hand by Sir Joshua Reynolds when quite young, and the colours of which are perfectly fresh to this day. It hung for years in my dining room, where it had been deposited whilst its owner of the elder branch, the late General Ludlow, had no home of his own, until eventually restored to him after his marriage. When Tom Taylor, who was then engaged on his biography of Reynolds, saw it his first exclamation was ‘But that cannot be a Reynolds, whose is it?’ And Tom Taylor was constrained to admit that there was no other painter of the day on whom it could possibly be fathered, and that it was no doubt painted by him on his first stay in London, and he inserted the picture accordingly in the catalogue at the end of his work.
