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 299
at the age of 28. * The son sold his collection of pictures (among which weremany painted by his father) by auction Feb. 24, 1725. Theson, called also Marcellus, died at Oxford June 2, 1772. [The head here given is curious, as hitherto there has beenno engraving of him—it was copied from a… … Died 1740. a gentleman artist,* with whose lively conversa-tion Graham was so struck, that he has written alife of him five times longer than most of those inhis work. The substance of it is, that thoughborn to an estate, he could not resist his impulseto drawing, which made him ramble over…
