William Gandy

[3] According to Northcote, whose grandfather and father knew and befriended Gandy: He was a man of a most untractable disposition, very resentful, of unbounded pride, and in the latter part of his life both idle and luxurious; of which I remember to have heard many instances from my father who knew him, and whose portrait he painted when a child.He was at all times totally careless of his reputation as a painter; and more particularly so if any thing happened in the course of his business to displease him.

[3] His portraits, though sometimes slight and sketchy, showed real genius, and were frequently admired by great artists.

Tobias Langdon in the college hall at Exeter excited the admiration of Sir Godfrey Kneller.

Gandy may also be credited with having directed and stimulated the rising genius of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

John Gilbert, vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth (engraved by Vertue as a frontispiece to Gilbert's Sermons), John Patch, surgeon in the Exeter Hospital, the Rev.