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Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury, later Mrs. Thrale)
Hester Thrale’s face radiates intelligence and determination. The sitter kept a diary of the 1775 trip to France she took with her husband and Samuel Johnson, the famed British lexicographer. While Johnson’s journal of their experiences at Versailles is terse, Thrale recounted her experiences with a delightful immediacy and a keen sense of perception. She described the apartments in the palace as having "effaced every Sight my Eyes have yet seen for Riches, Pomp, & Beauty."