ABSTRACT
Surviving correspondence and press accounts of the openings of organs show that Sweetland was acquainted with many of the leading figures in the artistic and, more particularly, the organ world of the second half of the nineteenth century. Bath’s position as a social centre, which developed in the eighteenth century, attracted fashionable society and its camp followers, the portrait painters, music masters and craftsmen to pander to the tastes of the aristocracy and social climbers who would mimic the tastes of their betters.
