Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician mb-code PG 992 The table is covered by

The table is covered by a blue cloth edged with a gold fringe

June 1770: 'it was of a light mouse colour

carrying a lantern and spear

Plate 11 from the paper 'Some particulars of the present state of Mount Vesuvius

Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician mb-code PG 992 The table is covered byFrederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician, 1882. Pickersgill (1820 1900) was a painter of historical subjects as well as scenes from art and literature, contemporary life and the Bible. He became a Royal Academician in 1850, the year in which he painted the work generally regarded as his masterpiece, 'Samson Betrayed'. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science,