Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions (1808)
Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Anecdotes of painting in England · London : Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby, W.J. and J. Richardson, R. Faulder, T. Payne, and J. White · leaf 300
ive ftate of the art, particularly in portraitpainting, certainly originated in the rapacity of that mafterlyartift Sir Godfrey Kneller, who, the better to enable himfelf towrade through the flood of bufinefs with which he was fur-rounded, ftruck out a flight and broad manner of marking… … §I& &ODFKE1T K^EX,I>EK Portrait x History.B or 11 16 48 . Dieii V7 2 6 Anecdotes of Painting. 185 The confequence of this negligent practice was, that theartifts, who were his contemporaries, being pleafed with the bold-nefs of his pictures, and the facility with which they were…
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