Identifier: recollectionsref01planuoft (find matches)
Title: Recollections and reflections, a professional autobiography
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Planché, James Robinson, 1796-1880
Subjects: Theater -- England History Authors -- Correspondence
Publisher: London Tinsley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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creased in the world ofart, as well as of letters. With Peyronet Briggs, who, in 1835, ceased to painthistory and took to portraiture,* I passed much happytime at Goodrich Court, the seat of our mutual friendSir Samuel Meyrick, sketching together on the banksof the Wye in the morning, and in the eveningmaking studies from the suits in the armoury, orthe mediaeval carvings in wood and ivory in theDoucean collection, bequeathed to him by the vene-rated antiquary whose name it bore. With WilliamEtty—for whom I purchased one of the finest suits ofarmour of the reign of Henry VIII. I ever lightedon—Samuel Prout, Brockedon, Uwins, the Landseers,Edwin and Charles, Cattermole, Bonnington, and manyothers, I soon contracted friendships, of which I possessmany valued souvenirs. Ho paid mc the compliment of selecting me for one of his firstsitters, and the portrait was exhibited that year in company withthose of the Earl of Eldon, the Countess Dowager of Cork, CharlesKemble, and Mrs. Jameson.
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