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 THE ANGELO FAMILY Beechey, while at Wilton, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke, there was an equestrian portrait of him, the horse by Morier and the figure by Brompton. Domenick was also immor talized (by grace of George II.) in West's famous picture of "The Battle of the Boyne," and in the equestrian statue of William III. at Dublin, in both which works, though the horseman's head is that of King William, the figure, for which he posed, is that of Angelo, and the horse the model of Angelo's famous white charger, "Monarch.'" We now come to Domenick Angelo's children, among whom we find the loquacious Henry, of The Reminiscences and The Picnic. They were at least six in number, namely:-- 1. Henry Charles William, born April 5th, 1756. 2. Florella Sophia, born in 1759. 3. Anne Caroline Eliza, born October 14th, 1763. 4. Catherine Elizabeth, born August 27th, 1766 5. Elizabeth Tremamondo, born June 13th, 1768. 6. George Xavier Tremamondo, born May 10th, 1773. These last two entries in the Soho registers differ curiously from any of the former. That of Elizabeth, for instance, runs thus:-"1768. Elizabeth Tremamondo, d. of Angelo Dominico and Elizabeth [Tremamondo]. Bapt. June 20th. Born June 13th." The child's surname is entered as Trema mondo, not Angelo, and Domenick's name Angelo appears in its right place, namely, as the first of his Christian names. Let us speak of his famous son Henry last of all Of the rest, the other son, George Xavier, must have died young, as did also his youngest sister, Elizabeth. His eldest sister, Florella Sophia, never married. She grew up a pretty brunette, becoming a special favourite of the young Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., who provided for her well for xix