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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904
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1Francis Hayman (1708–1776), and lent by Mr. J. Edward Street, shows Dr. Greene in the company of his friend, John Hoadly, the poet and dramatist.
3Four portraits came from the Music School Collection, Oxford—the brothers Lawes (William and Henry), Nicolas Laniere, and Christopher Simpson. Haydn and I. P. Salomon are two names closely associated with one another in regard to the visits of the composer of the "Creation" to England. They both sat to Thomas Hardy, R.A., a painter of repute at the end of the 18th century, with what success the visitor who looks at the two portraits may judge. The names of Callcott and Horsley bear family as well as artistic relation to each other. Here is a portrait of Dr. Callcott, painted by his brother, Sir Augustus Callcott, and one of I. B. Cramer, the pianist, painted by the late John C. Horsley, R.A. The celebrated portrait painter, George Romney—who, by the way, played the violin—is represented in the Exhibition by a picture of Dr. Crotch, lent by the Royal Academy of Music.
5Players on stringed instruments will take a special interest in the portraits of Corelli, Geminani, Viotti, Paganini, Kreutzer, Robert Lindley, Dragonetti, Ernst, Charles Ashley (the Violoncellist and a Past-Master of the Musicians' Company), Mori, Sivori, and Alfredo Piatti (by Holl).
7Church Musicians will look with sympathetic interest upon the faces of S. S. Wesley and John Stainer (by Hermoker); while pianists will have the opportunity of beholding the features of Clementi, John Field, Mendelssohn (two portraits), Chopin, and Sterndale Bennett (by Millais).
9There are two portraits of Opera singers in character—Jenny Lind as "Norma," and Charles Incledon as he appeared in the prison scene of "The Beggar's Opera." Weber and his host, Sir George Smart, are also here, and so is a portrait of a very ancient composer—Monteverde. Various pictures—non-portraits—lend variety to the canvases and engravings here gathered together, and, in conclusion,
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