The Musical Association has given me a great privilege in allowing me to offer this tribute to the memory of a man whose monument stands in the brains and hearts of all who knew him. Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter was his full name; he took the name of Cipriani, by which he is most familiarly known, from his godmother. She was the sister of a painter of high eminence in England, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, a native of Florence, who came, after mature study in his own country, and held here a most important position. It was he who was engaged to restore Rubens's pictures in Whitehall, and many other professional duties devolved upon him, besides the production of paintings of his own. He was one of the twenty-three painters who signed the petition to George III. to grant a charter for the Royal Academy of Arts, and it was also this Cipriani who was appointed by his fellow members of the Institution to design the diploma which is signed on the admission of members. He died seven years before the birth of the man who bears his surname as a Christian name. The name of Philip may perhaps have been given to our friend, for such is the endearing title by which I am proud to call him, from the son of this Cipriani, who seems not to have pursued the arts as an avocation, for he was a clerk in the Treasury.