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 162
says, that having promised to show a whole-length by Francis Hals to a friend, and the latter growing impatient, he called his wife, who was his master’s daughter, and said, ‘‘ There is a whole- length by Hals.” These are trifling circumstances, but what more important happens in sedentary and… … was born in Westphalia, and came to England probably. before the Restoration,® for Sanderson mentions him as then 1 [James-street, Covent-garden.—W. | 2 [St. Paul’s, Covent-garden.—W.] * Printed in 1685. Describing a picture of a husband and wife, he says, “It must be valued an ornament to the…
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