Great Reed Warbler and its nest Finish:Single The sitter is depicted full-faced

The sitter is depicted full-faced and wigged against clouds and woodland

Inscribed: 'painted by H

as an auctioneer

The reasons given were that he was suffering from poor health and general fatigue

Great Reed Warbler and its nest Finish:Single The sitter is depicted full-facedPlate 1 from the paper 'An account of an English bird of the genus Motacilla, supposed to be hitherto unnoticed by British ornithologists', by John Lightfoot, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 8 15. Study of the bird classified and described by John Lightfoot FRS (1735 1788) clergyman and naturalist in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, as Motacilla arundinacea [Acrocephalus arundinaceus]. The bird is shown nesting in a