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 162
ely painted, but the hands and dra-pery poor. Mr. Beale mentions him in one of hispocket-books,* for sending presents of colours tohis wife in 1654, and 1658; and that in 1678, Mr.Snelling offered him thirty guineas for a Venusand Cupid after Rottenhamer, for which he askedforty guineas and was… … Born 1632, Died 1697, was daughter of Mr. Cradock, minister of Waltonupon Thames,* and learned the rudiments ofpainting from Sir Peter Lely, and had some in-structions, as Vertue thought, from Walker. Shepainted in oil, water-colours and crayons, and hadmuch business ; her portraits were in the…
