Dr Matthew McCormack's Blog – March 2011 Archive (1)

I am currently in Dorchester doing research at the Dorset History Centre. By coincidence, there is an exhibition at the County museum called "Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County", showing paintings of key Dorset figures painted by the likes of Gainsborough and Reynolds, many of which are from private collections. The poster features a 1782 portrait of George Pitt, Colonel of the…