(1729 - 97), miscellaneous writer and artist, s. of George Keate of Isleworth, Mx.; I.Temple 1751, called 1753; lived in Geneva; exh. SA and RA between 1766 and 1789; FSA, FRS 1766; m. 1769 Jane Hudson.
1754 - 5 Genoa, Leghorn, Florence, Rome, Naples (Feb. - Mar. 1755), Rome (May), Rimini, Ravenna, Pisa, Venice [Geneva, summer 1756]
Keate's itinerary is revealed in his sketchbook
(BMPL), the title page of which is inscribed: Views of ... Antiquity in different parts of France, Italy and Savoy, Switzerland taken in a Tour made ... in the years 1754, 1755 and 1756. Together with some sketches of the Antiquities of Pola; the sketches are pedestrian.1 On 10 May 1755 Cardinal Albani wrote from Rome recommending 'Keate e Swete' who were coming to Turin.2 In the summer of 1756 he was visiting Voltaire at Geneva.3 Keate also wrote Ancient and Modern Rome, A poem written in Rome in the Year 1755 [1760].
1. See L.D. Ettlinger, English Misc., 4[1953]:133 - 46. 2. AST cd, mazz.236, f.138. 3. Voltaire, no.9.