Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists by Horace Walpole. With additions by James Dallaway, and Vertue's catalogue of engravers who have been born or have resided in England. (1888)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 · London, S. Sonnenschein and Lowrey · leaf 107
ben I oN ~. CHAPTER IV. PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII. 1509, … that even merit has a chance of getting bread. Though Henry had no genius to strike out the improvements of latter ages, he had parts enough to choose the best of what co) the then world exhibited to his option. He was gallant, as far as the rusticity of his country and the boisterous indeli- cacy…
Painting -- England · Painters -- England
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