William Boyce was an English composer and organist. Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued to compose. He knew Handel, Arne, Gluck, Bach, Abel, and a very young Mozart, all of whom respected his work.
William Boyce by John Russell, 1776
William Boyce by Thomas Hudson, ca. 1745
St Peter, Vere Street, known until 1832 as the Oxford Chapel after its founder Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, is a former Anglican church off Oxford Street, London. It has sometimes been referred to as the Marybone Chapel or Marylebone Chapel.
St Peter, Vere Street
St Peter, Vere Street from Chapel Place
Plate 2 of William Hogarth's Industry and Idleness, showing the interior of the chapel