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Surname	Royal	Alternative Surname
First Name	Thomas	Initial of Surname	R
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1770-78
Year of Death
Biographical Details	He exhibited wax portraits at the Society of Artists, 1770-l776, giving his address as ‘At Mr. Brown, hairdresser, in St. Clement’s churchyard’ and ‘19 Borough’. In 1777 a wax-modeller called Ryal, who was an honorary exhibitor, showed a ‘portrait of a gentleman in wax’ (cat 332). It seems likely that he was the same man. Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 333; Pyke 1973, 124