2-756-353 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Conversation of Virtuosis...at the Kings Arms', 1735, (1947). Group portrait of some of the leading British artists and architects of the 1730s who used to meet at the King's Arms in New Bond Street, London: engraver Bernard Baron, landscape gardener Charles Bridgeman, painter Michael Dahl, architect James Gibbs, painter Joseph Goupy, artist Gawen Hamilton (painter of the picture), painter Hans Hysing, architect William Kent, artist Matthew Robinson, sculptor John Michael Rysbrack, antiquary William Thomas, engraver George Vertue, painter John Wootton. Painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London. From "British Clubs", by Bernard Darwin. [Collins, London, 1947]