OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES. [BOOKHI.
1763. Ms Mend, to bring Ms easel in Ms coach some day, and
jBt35. enthrone Mrs. Fleming by the side of it. So may the portrait
have been painted; and much laughter there would be in its
progress, I do not doubt, at the very different sort of sitters
and subjects whose coronetted-coaches were crowding the
west side of Leicester-square.
The good-humour of Eeynolds was a different thing from
that of Hogarth. It had no antagonism about it. Ill-humour
with any other part of the world had nothing to do with it.
It was gracious and diffused; singling out some, it might be,
for special warmth, but smiling blandly upon all. He was
eminently the gentleman of Ms time; and if there is a Mdden
charm in Ms portraits, it is that. His own nature pervades
them, and shines out from them still. He was now forty
years old, being younger than Hogarth by a quarter of a
century; was already in the receipt of nearly six thousand
pounds a year; and had known nothing but uninterrupted
prosperity. He had moved from St. Martin's-lane into
Newport-street, and from Newport-street into Leicester-
square ; he had raised Ms prices from five, ten, and twenty
guineas (Ms earliest charge for the three sizes of portraits),
successively to ten, twenty, and forty, to twelve, twenty-four
and forty-eight, to fifteen, tMrty, and sixty, to twenty, forty,
and eighty, and to twenty-five, fifty, and a hundred, the
sums he now charged; he had lately built a gallery for Ms
works; and he had set up. a gay gilt coach, with the four
seasons painted on its panels.* Yet, of those to whom the
* See Farrngton's Memoirs in the Works, i. clxii, and the Life by Beechey, i.
124-5,13940. He greatly advanced his prices in later days. Mr. Oroker states,
in a note to his last edition of Uoswell (113) : "I have been informed by Sir
' Thomas Lawrence, his admirer and rival, that in 1787 his prices were two
' hundred guineas for the whole-length,, one hundred for the half-kngtli, seventy
' for the kit-cat, and fifty for what is called the three-quarters. But even on
' these prices some increase must have been made, as Horace Walpole said, ' Sir
' 'Joshua, in his old age, becomes avaricious. He had one thousand guineas