Literary and artistic societies
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
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From left to right: Boswell, Dr Johnson, Reynolds, Garrick, Burke, Paoli, Burney, Warton and Goldsmith, at Sir Joshua Reynolds’s.
Reynolds had a circle of friends, among whom Garrick whose portrait he painted; they were both members of Brook’s club.
In the background to the left of the chandelier, his painting of Puck can be seen.
Reynolds and Dr Johnson also established “the Club”.
The membership of the Society of Dilettanti was composed of former travellers on the Grand Tour.
- Hickford’s Music Room
- Hickford’s Music Room in Brewer Street (Soho), where Mozart, aged nine, performed in 1765.
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- Hickford’s Music Room
- Hickford’s Music Room in Brewer Street (Soho), where Mozart, aged nine, performed in 1765.
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The Turk’s Head, in Gerrard Street in Soho, where the ’Club’ established in 1764 by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr Johnson met.
- The Turk’s Head
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- The Turk’s Head
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“The Turk’s Head in Gerrard Street, Soho, was more than 50 years since, removed from a tavern of the same sign, the corner of Greek and Compton Streets. This place was a kind of head-quarters for the Loyal Association during the rebellion of 1745. About that time there was a waiter in this tavern, who like Tennyson’s waiter at the Cock, Temple Bar, had obtained considerable celebrity. His name was Little Will.”
(Moser’s Memorandum Book, MS 1799, quoted in Notes and Queries, 22 Dec. 1849, in Larwood’s History of Sign Boards
Bryant Lillywhite, London Coffee Houses)
