A head, in an oval, turned to the right; dressed in a red uniform
trimmed with gold; on his breast a blue ribbon. His hair is
powdered and brushed back.
This was formerly unnamed, but the mezzotint engraving after it by
Fisher shows it to have been painted by Dance; doubtless when the
King was over here in 1767 for his marriage to Princess Matilda. He
was then eighteen years old.
Their domestic life was not happy. In politics he distinguished
himself by granting liberty of the press to his subjects; in reward
for which Voltaire addressed the famous lines to him, in which he
tells him: "Je me jette à tes pieds au nom du genre humain."
He afterwards went out of his mind, and died in 1808.
He was the son of Princess Louisa, the daughter of George II., and
succeeded to the throne in 1766. The engraving after this picture
by G. Fisher is dated 1769.