1721 Rome (24 Apr.: Mr Campbell married the sister of Andrew Hay and of Mrs Trotter, the service conducted by the Rev. Barclay and witnessed by Andrew Hay and John Smibert; Rawlinson jnl.MSS)
1722 Venice (18 Jan.: Mr and Mrs Campbell with their daughter set out for Mestre 'to pursue their journey to England'; Rawlinson jnl.MSS)
1729 - 30 [Paris] Turin, Venice (by 29 Dec. 1729 - before 20 Jan. 1730), Rome (26 Jan.), Naples, Rome ( - 27 Apr.)
1732 Rome (by 5 Apr.)
Campbell set out from England in 1727 as tutor to the young Charles Wyndham (later 2nd Earl of Egremont). They spent two years in Paris where Charles studied at an academy before leaving for Italy. Campbell, having met the recently widowed Lady Ferrers in Paris in 1729, then sent his charge ahead, while he and Lady Ferrers made their own way to Rome. He told Sir William Wyndham that his health had prevented him leaving Paris with his son.1 Campbell caught up with Wyndham in Turin and Venice, writing to his father on 29 December to say he had not received his letter telling them not to proceed to Italy. On 28 January Wyndham told his father from Venice that Campbell had again left him and would 'be in Rome by this time'. Stosch noticed the arrival in Rome of Campbell, Lady Ferrers and her brother, Sir Richard Levinge, on 26 January 1730, and said they would shortly go to Naples for their health. On 27 April Stosch reported that Campbell had left Rome, following Lady Ferrers towards England.2 Wyndham, on his father's instruction, had severed all links with Campbell by 13 April, when he told his father that Campbell 'received the news very cooly'.
On 5 April 1732 Campbell was again in Rome, now described by Stosch as a zealous Jacobite who had often been in Italy, the last time with Lady Ferrers and the Duchess of Buckingham.3
1. Petworth House archive, 6320 (letters of 17 Aug., 14 Sep. 1729). 2. SP 98/32, ff.21, 59. 3. Ibid., f.360.
1733 Rome (12 Nov.: dined with Martin Folkes; Folkes jnl.MSS)
1754-5 Rome
Campbell, a Scottish painter, was the pupil of Mengs in Rome. He had been recommended to the master by Andrew Lumisden before April 1754, at the same time as Colin Morison. On 19 May 1755 Lumisden wrote that Campbell was 'a very worthy lad, has a good taste and draws neatly, but I am afraid he is rather indolent'. Nothing more is heard of him, and he may have died in Rome (notes from B. Skinner).
1773 Venice (9 Nov.: Mr and Mrs Campbell; ASV IS 760)
1787 Venice (20 Jul.: 'Campbel'; ASV IS 760)
1792 Venice (10, 16 Jun.: with John, Lord Mountstuart; ASV IS 764)