Bust, to the right, looking to the front His left hand is on his
breast, holding his gown. Dressed in canonicals, with a bushy wig.
On canvas, 2 ft. 6 in. high, by 2 ft. 1 in. wide.
He was the son of a farmer at Congreve, Staffordshire, and was born
in 1720. He was appointed preceptor to the Prince of Wales and the
Duke of York, and was nominated Bishop of Worcester in 1781; but
declined the primacy offered by George III., with whom he was a
great favourite. He wrote many moral and religious works, long
since relegated to the limbo of insipid mediocrities. Engraved by
Holl in 1774? Perhaps the picture exhibited in 1781.