(1750 - 93), e. s. of Hon. John Talbot; educ. Eton and Magd. Oxf. 1766; m. 1776 Ldy. Charlotte Hill, dau. of 1st E. of Hillsborough; MP 1777 - 82; suc. uncle as 3rd B. Talbot 1782; cr. E. Talbot 1784.
1772 - 3 Florence (Nov. 1772), Siena (15 Nov. 1772), Capua (8 Jan.), Naples (Jan. 1773), Venice (7 May), Rome (Sep.)
Talbot was travelling in Italy with Sir John Rous. They were presented at Court in Florence in November 1772, and on the 15th they joined Thomas Orde at Siena.1 Talbot and Rous, with a Mr Foster, were in Capua on their way to (or from?) Naples on 8 January 1773,2 and were in Venice on 7 May 1773.3 Talbot was back in Rome in September,4 and he sat to Batoni for a whole-length portrait that year (Clark/Bowron 368; Getty Museum, Malibu). There is a drawing of Rous by Johann Anton Pichler,5 and Talbot appears with Rous (and others) in a conversation piece attributed to Wickstead painted in Rome c.1773 (Ham House, and priv. coll.).6 Piranesi dedicated a plate to both Talbot and Rous in his Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi [1778].
John Talbot was in Italy at the same time as Thomas Mansel Talbot, and it is uncertain which was the Talbot listed in Rome ('seguita la Strada verso S.Bastianello') at Easter 1773,7 and which refered to by Timothy Collopy in an undated letter of about January 1773: 'Mr Talbot who is yesterday gone to Rome a second time, ... was much surprized there could be so fine a picture in Rome as yours without his hearing of it'.8
1. Orde jnl.MSS. 2. ASN cra 1257. 3. ASV is 760. 4. Pacetti giornale (cited by Clark/Bowron). 5. RBF note. 6. R.B. Ford, Apollo, 99[1974]:453 - 4, 461n44. 7. AVR sa, S.Lorenzo in Lucina. 8. Thorpe letters MSS.