(c.1703 - 66), 1st surv. s. of 1st B. Foley; Ch.Ch. Oxf. 1720; suc. fa. 1733 as 2nd B. Foley; FRS 1740; unm.
1724 - 5 Turin (Oct. 1724), Venice (Nov.), Padua (22 Nov.), Parma, Rome (Dec. 1724 - 3 Feb. 1725), Naples (Feb.), Rome (by 3 Mar. - 4 Apr.), Florence (by 13 Apr. 1725)
With his governor, William Moncrief, 'a north British Gentleman of the Isle of Orkney',1 Thomas Foley was in Turin in October 1724,2 and sat to Rosalba Carriera in Venice in November.3 They were in Padua on 22 November 1724,4 and passed through Parma (as Moncrief later wrote),5 on their way to Rome, where they arrived late in December. There Stosch alleged they were Tories and received many attentions from the Jacobites.6 They left for Naples on 3 February 1725, and had returned to Rome by 3 March.5 On 9 March Rawlinson saw Foley's collection 'bought of Nicolo Pio' - a book of drawings and fifty prints 'of Raffaelle and the best masters'; he thought it 'a mixed collection, and the price of 1500 crownes is judged large'; Foley and Moncrief left Rome on 4 April 1725 for Florence,7 where they had arrived by 13 April.1
1. SP 98/25 (Colman, 13 Apr. 1725). 2. Abercairny MSS 464j (Jamineau & Rousseau to Jn.Drummond, Venice, 27 Oct. 1724). 3. Sani 1985, 785. 4. Brown 1765. 5. Abercairny MSS 464j (Rome, 3 Mar. 1725). 6. SP 85/15, ff.233, 330 (Walton, 23 Dec. 1724, 7 Apr. 1725). 7. Rawlinson jnl.MSS (3 Feb., 9 Mar., 4 Apr. 1725).