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 363
dragons on the monument,at fifty pounds each. The whole cost of thatcolumn, exclusive of the dragons, and of the bas-relief which is not mentioned in the account, * English school. 316 PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I. appears by the survey of Hooke, Leybourn, andothers, to have amounted to… … one of the few we have had that may be called aa classic artist, was a Frenchman, and disciple ofJohn of Boulogne. He arrived at least as early [The busts of Sir Christopher Wren, and another likewiseof Sir Isaac Newton in the Bodleian Gallery, are in a supe-rior style of life and character. They…