Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts (1826)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 · London : Printed at the Shakspeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major · leaf 189
OF CHARLES I. hall was erected, which was therefore not the earliest, but themost excellent example. Mr. W. should have said that Baberham in Cambridgeshirewas the first specimen of the pure Italian style, built by SirH. Palavicini. Little Shelford, which he quotes, was built inimitation of it, by… … b TutJished by Jo [ 161 ] CHAPTER IIL Painters in the Reign of Charles LSIR PETER PAUL RUBENS. Born 1577. Died 1641. One cannot write the life of Rubens without tran-scribing twenty authors. The most common booksexpatiate on a painter, whose works are so nume-rous and so well known. His pictures…
