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 103
PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II, Do stood the anatomic part of painting, perhaps equal to Michael Angelo, following it so close, that he was very apt to make … the muscelling too strong and prominent.” But this writer was not aware that the very faults he objects to Fuller did not proceed from not having seen the antiques, but from having seen them too partially, and that he was only to be compared to Michael Angelo from a similitude of errors, flowing…
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