heading in green ink: - Mrs. Hatchett -

year in green ink: 1769-? The lady painted was (like her husband) of a Huguenot family, which disguised itself under the English surname of Collick, but the real name is lost. Gainsborough used to spend many evenings at her father's house and was won by the young lady's extraordinary musical genius. She was a pupil of Clement's who pronounced her the first non-professional performer in England. year in green ink: 1786 She married Charles Hatchett, a descendant from old French noblesse, but better known in England as a literary and scientific man, and treasurer to the Club to which Johnson, Reynolds, and Garret, etc. belonged.

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