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 95
TO THE END OF HENRY VII. A9 record—accordingly, not one that deserved the title (I mean natives) arose in that reign. The only names of painters that Vertue could recover of that period were both foreign- ers, and of one of them the account is indeed exceedingly iS Wy MA … HENRY VII.’S CHAPEL AND TOMB. slight ; mention being barely made in the register’s office of Wells, that one Holbein lived and died here in the reign of Henry VII. Whether the father of the celebrated Holbein,! I shall inquire hereafter, in the life of that painter ; but of this person, whoever he…
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