Thomas Patch was an English painter, printmaker in etching, physiognomist and art historian. He made a living from painting views of Florence and Tivoli and appears to have sold a number of painted caricature groups to members of the Anglo-Florentine community and to young British men on the Grand Tour. The largest collection of his paintings and prints is in the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut.
A panoramic view of Florence from Bellosguardo, 1775
Detail from Tribuna of the Uffizi. From left to right (standing): Mr Gordon, Patch, Sir John Taylor Bt, Sir Horace Mann and in front Felton Hervey
British Gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann's Home in Florence (circa 1765), including John Tylney, 2nd Earl Tylney; currently at the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Felton Hervey was an aristocratic English politician from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, and a member of the British royal household. He took his son and daughter on a grand tour of Italy where he met Johann Zoffany and Pope Clement XIV.
The Tribuna of the Uffizi
The Honourable Felton Hervey by John Fayram