Portrait of Thomas Brand Hollis (1714-1804) Product:Canvas The extended family at breakfast

The extended family at breakfast

In the distance a mock

showing the ascent of Mr James Sadler and Miss Thompson in a hot air balloon

Mr Punch agreed that preparations were being made for self-defence and approved the notion that 'the English fleet should exceed the united fleets of France and Russia'

Portrait of Thomas Brand Hollis (1714-1804) Product:Canvas The extended family at breakfastHalf length portrait in profile showing the sitter's long and loosely tied hair. Inscribed: 'THOMAS BRAND HOLLIS ESQ: F. R. S. and S. A. OF THE HYDE NEAR INGATEESTONE ESSEX. AGED XXXII.' A further [indistinct] inscription below: 'From a drawing taken from life at Rome 1752 by Pozzi in the possession of John Disney D. D. F. S. A. Engraved 1807 by E. Bocquet.' Inscribed in pencil lower left T Brand Elec 1756. Frontispiece to Memoirs of Thomas Brand