Regency Portraits Catalogue
William Huntington (1745-1813), Coalheaver and eccentric preacher
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Coalheaver and eccentric preacher usually appending S.S. (Sinner Saved) after his name.
'He wore a short cropped black wig, his face was reddish, his eyes light blue … He increased the dignity of his appearance by wearing over his wig a three cornered hat, loyally stamped inside with a portrait in gold of George III’ (Thomas Wright, Life of William Huntington, S.S., 1909, p 172).
'He wore a short cropped black wig, his face was reddish, his eyes light blue … He increased the dignity of his appearance by wearing over his wig a three cornered hat, loyally stamped inside with a portrait in gold of George III’ (Thomas Wright, Life of William Huntington, S.S., 1909, p 172).
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Wright 1909Thomas Wright, Life of William Huntington, S.S., 1909.
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