Giles Hussey

He then went on to work with Francesco Riari[4] and he assisted in painting bishops in Lincoln Cathedral under the Venetian artist Vincenzo Damini.

[3] After journeying through France in 1730, where substantial funds were spent, Damini abandoned Hussey in Bologna after taking his property.

Hussey was lucky to be adopted by a former ambassador to London, Signor Ghislonzoni, who befriended the painter, who was in Bolgna until 1733, when he left for his original destination of Rome.

[3] In Rome he started to develop his own theories on art whilst working with Ercole Lelli.

[7] The illustration shows one of the portraits that Hussey made of the "Young Pretender", Charles Edward Stuart, who was the embodiment of the Catholic cause in England.

To make ends meet he again took to portraiture and was able to include the numismatist Matthew Duane and the Duke of Northumberland amongst his clientele in 1742.

[1] Over the next twenty years, Hussey was disappointed to find that his artistic theories received very little attention, and in 1768 he gave up painting entirely.