[2] In London Wolcot became an important figure in the art world as patron of both John Opie and later, Richard Morton Paye.

Wolcot had a remarkable vein of humour and wit, which, while intensely comic to persons not involved, stung its subjects to the quick.

Much that he wrote has now lost all interest owing to the circumstances referred to being forgotten, but enough still retains its peculiar relish to account for his contemporary reputation.

[4] He died at his home in Latham Place (now part of Churchway), Somers Town, London on 14 January 1819, and was buried in a vault in the churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden.

Arline Meyer,"From the Foothills of Parnassus; viewed by Thomas Rowlandson and John Wolcot (alias Peter Pindar)," The British Art Journal, March 2002