(1737 - 83) of Salop; Dilettanti 1764.
1759 - 61 Turin (Aug. - 12 Nov. 1759), Genoa, Milan (by 1 Dec. 1759), Florence, Naples (by 1 Jan. 1760), Rome (by mid Feb. - Jul. - ), Florence (Sep. - Oct.), Venice (Nov. 1760 - Apr. 1761)
1765 Rome (7 Mar. - Jun.) [Marseilles by 17 Jun.]
On his first visit to Italy Mytton spent much of his time with Thomas Robinson (later 2nd Baron Grantham), James Grant of Castle Grant and Thomas Wynn (later Lord Newborough). 'My old acquaintance Mr Mytton' was in Turin with Robinson in August 1759, and they then intended to go to Rome with Wynn and Grant.1 Mytton and Robinson probably shared James Grant's itinerary, through Milan and Florence to Naples in January 1760 and back to Rome. Mytton appears with Wynn, Grant and Robinson in the conversation piece painted by Nathaniel Dance in Rome (see James Grant). Robinson and Mytton stayed on in Rome after Grant and Wynn had departed, intending to leave for Florence on 13 July,2 but Robinson was still in Rome in August (about to sit to Mengs). On 8 October Cardinal Albani in Rome sent to Horace Mann in Florence 'un joyeau en fer blanc' for Mytton,3 and Mytton's subsequent itinerary may have been shared with Robinson. He was presumably the Mytton who witnessed Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's will in Venice on 3 April 1761.4
Mytton returned to Italy in 1765. On 9 March the Abb? Grant in Rome told James Grant: 'Two days ago who cast up here but your friend Mr Mytton, the same who was here at Garnieri's with you and Robinson & c.',5 and on 31 March William Palgrave also told Grant that he had been 'much amazed to see Mytton here [in Rome], with no other errand but to buy some pictures and return'.6 Sir William Farington saw him on 1 April7 and on 5 June Thomas Jenkins told James Grant 'your friend Mr Mytton has made us a second visit, the only thing he wanted to make Rome perfectly agreeable to him was the rest of the Guernieri set'.8 By 17 June Mytton was in Marseilles.7
1. Robinson letters MSS, vr12303 (18 Aug. 1759). 2. Seafield MSS, GD 248/99/3 (Abb? Grant, 5, 12 Jul. 1760). 3. SP 105/313, f.260. Lewis 1961, 181. 4. Montagu Letters, 3:264, 265n. 5. Seafield MSS, GD 248/99/3. 6. W. Fraser, Chiefs of Grant, 2:446. 7. Farington jnl.MSS. 8. Seafield MSS, GD 248/49/3/24.