Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists (1826)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 364
of fifty. He had several brothers, artists, one a medallist, at Vienna, and another at Venice, a painter of views. Richter was mem- ber of a club with Dahl and several gentlemen, whose heads his brother modelled from the life, and from thence made medals in silver. I mention this as it may explain… … was born at Geneva, May 1668, and was designed for the church, but poverty obliged him to turn painter. At the ^ [A miniature of Gibber, the statuary, father of Gibber, the player, by Richter, was sold at the Strawberry-hill sale for 30s. — W.]
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