The story of this pic is in George III & Queen Charlotte, Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste edited by Jane Roberts, Royal Collection Publications, 2004. The artist Thomas Frye (1710-1762) went to the theatre "…this was presumably the only place where Frye could observe them [George III and Queen Charlotte] and hope to secure their likenesses. It is said that the King and Queen, seeing the artist at work, obligingly turned their faces towards him, in effect granting him an impromptu, informal sitting. The captions underneath the prints which Frye and Pether produced after these portraits attest to this immediacy, boasting that they were made ad vivum, from the life." "Thomas Frye was one of the most successful mezzotinters of his era, as well as portraitist in oils, pastel and miniature. William Pether, who also painted in oils, was Frye's pupil for a time before the two went into partnership together as engravers."
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