Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists (1876)
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 · London : Chatto and Windus · leaf 265
whom he quitted in 1712, and was employed in the same service by others ; but his chief business was in mending drawings and old pictures, in which he was very skilful.2 Pieters and Bakker were both kind to Virtue in his youth, and gave him instructions, which he acknowledges with great gratitude.… … one of the greatest masters that has appeared for painting flowers. They are not so exquisitely finished as Van Huy- 1 He was so poor that he engaged himself as a domestic in the service of Cardinal Dada, the pope's nuncio ; but quitted him before night. 2 He excelled in copying Rubens, and even…
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