(1742 - 1804), o. surv. s. of Henry Izard of The Elms, nr. Charleston, South Carolina; m. 1767 Alice de Lancey of New York (d. 1832); dip. rep. Paris 1777 - 9; congressman S. Carolina 1782 - 3 and senator 1789 - 95.
1774 - 5 Turin, Florence (Oct. 1774), Rome (Nov. 1774), Naples (by 17 Jan. 1775), Rome (Feb. - Mar.), Venice, Verona [London by 25 May]
Izard had been living with his wife in London before they made a tour of Italy in 1774 - 5. They passed through Dijon and Geneva in July and August 1774 and by mid-October they were in Florence,1 where Izard sought out his compatriot J.S. Copley.2 In November they were in Rome and the following January in Naples. From Naples they took Copley on an excursion to Paestum ('stayed at Paestum 3 hours, and got back to Naples in three days', Copley wrote3); they also covered Copley's expenses back to Rome. Izard had written from Naples on 17 January that 'we shall return to Rome in two or three weeks, and intend staying there till the middle of March, when we shall set out for Venice, and so to England, through Germany'. Their stay was curtailed by the deterioration of Anglo-American relations, and on 21 January 1775 he wrote again from Naples that he would endeavour 'to get to England as early as possible in the spring'. There was time in Rome for them both to sit to Copley for a double portrait (MFA Boston), and Copley copied for them a Raphael Madonna in Florence.3 They were leaving Rome in 'a few days' on 2 March, and were back in London by 25 May 1775. Izard subsequently thanked John Strange, the British resident in Venice, for his hospitality and mentioned that he had visited Verona.4
See Corr.of Mr Ralph Izard, [1844], 2 - 75. 2. Copley, Letters, 330. 3. Borroni 1979, 1252. 4. Eg.1969., f.26.