The Pleasing Hours: James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont 1728-99 
Subtitle: Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts in Ireland
Publisher: Collins Press
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781898256663
Subjects: Biography: general; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Mediterranean Region; Ireland; Europe - Ireland; Political; Ireland - History; Irish; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; General; Historical - British; Charlemont, James Caulfeild; Art patrons; Italy; Lord,; 1728-1799; 18th century; Biography; Charlemont, James Caulfeild,
Description: "In 1746 the young Lord Charlemont, with his tutor, Edward Murphy, set out from Dublin on his Grand Tour. In 1749 he chartered a ship and crew to sail to Constantinople, the Greek Islands, Egypt, Asia Minor and Greece. A voyage undertaken in the spirit of adventure resulted in the discovery of the lost city of Helicarnassus and the Friezes from the Mausoleum at Bodrum."--Jacket.

"With an established reputation as a connoisseur and patron of the arts, Charlemont returned to Ireland in 1754. A patriot and a statesman, he took his seat in the Irish House of Lords and supported an independent Irish Parliament. He was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Volunteers and presided over the Dungannon Convention in 1782. He helped found the Royal Irish Academy and was elected its first president in 1785"--BOOK JACKET. "His circle included Lord Chesterfield, Edmund Burke, James Gandon and Horace Walpole."--Jacket.