Note 325 — Chapter II · LEARNED LADIES IN ENGLAND FROM 1650 TO 1760 (continued 4)
Reading edition
In 1754, at a sale of 150 pictures belonging to Dr. Mead, a picture of "Mrs. Barber the poetess, in Water Colours," brought only 1l. 9s., the next lowest price paid for any picture. (Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. II, p. 107.) Mrs. Barber suffered from severe attacks of gout and she had been one of Dr. Mead's patients.