Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877, Bromley, William, 1769-1842, Worthington, William Henry, approximately 1795-approximately 1839, Cook, Henry R, Cook, John William, Engleheart, Francis, 1775-1849, Audinet, P, Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, Thomson, J., engraver, Raddon, W, Thomson, Paton, b. ca. 1750, Warren, A. W. (Alfred William), Gibbon, Benjamin Phelps, 1802-1851, Robinson, John Henry, 1796-1871, Finden, W. (William), 1787-1852, Skelton, William, 1763-1848, Watt, W. H, Edwards, William Camden, 1777-1855, Doo, George Thomas, 1800-1886, Cooper, Robert, fl. 1795-1836, Bond, William, fl. 1799-1833, Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841 · 1876 · London : Chatto and Windus · 35 pictures

Anecdotes of Painting in England is a 1876 London art history by Horace Walpole, James Dallaway, George Vertue and Ralph Wornum, published by Chatto and Windus for readers interested in English painters and their lives. Its pictures are small engraved portrait heads and busts of artists and sitters, drawn in fine hatched lines with simple oval or square frames, offering a designer examples of restrained period portraiture and tonal line shading.

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