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OBJE: Horace Mann.bmp
Sir Horace Mann, the British minister at Florence, commissi
oned Astley to paint this portrait and the one of his broth
er, Galfridus, as presents for Walpole, who had stayed wit
h him on the Grand Tour. On 23 March 1752 Walpole wrote Man
n: "Your picture is arrived, which he [Conway] says is extr
emely like you: Mr Chute cannot bear it, says it wants you
r countenance and goodness, that it looks bonny and Irish
. I am between both and should know it--to be sure there i
s none of your wet-brown-paperness in it, but it has a loo
k with which I have known you come out from your little roo
m . . . au reste, it is gloriously coloured."