Described as 'very like' when seen by Horace Walpole at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1770, the portrait was retained by Gainsborough in his studio for two years while he made a copy which he told Garrick was intended 'to hang in my own parlour, to look when I please at a Great Man, who has thought me worthy of some little notice'.

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　　加里克，英国演员，剧作家，戏剧导演。大卫·加里克是那个时代享有盛名的演员，也是有史以来最著名的英国演员之一。