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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1624, 1 August 1887, Page 3

Quite recently a working jeweller named Simpson, m Brighton, England, met with a ftrange piece of luok at an auction m that town. A picture of a negro, m an old and dilapidated frame, was pnt up as a lot, and was knocked down to him " for a mere Bonrc,", amid the jeers of' the' brokers Md'oUnec itwndants of the 'rooms. On the back of the ianvass, however, Mr Simpson had noted, when the pictures were on view the previous a»y, the words " Dr. Johnson'a Servant ; " And his cariosity being stimulated thereby, he referred to "Boswell," and to the "Life of Reynolds," when he found thas Sjr Joshua had' painted at least one portrait of: John Williams, the black who was so long m the iirvive 1 of Johnson. The style of painting ■truck several amateurs as rather m the style of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and that view baa lince been been confirmed by one pr two, taberts, who hava given thej/ opiuipn that fbi ponraty if eitb^atr pngirial o{ BoynoJ4P °* *]?? a remarkably 'good copy (possibly ft 'rapuo'a) qf the portrait which the jteat patter painted for Bit Oi Beiumaot,