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 320
in ivory born at Dieppe; was manyyears in England, and cut a great number ofheads in bas-relief, and some whole figures inivory : Mr. West has his head carved by himself,oval. Lord Oxford had the bust of Lord Somersby him. He also did one of Sir Isaac Newton ;another was a profile of Charles… … born at West-Lavington in Wiltshire, where hehad an estate, was comptroller of the works in thereign of King William, but of his life I find scarceany particulars, though he was an architect em-ployed in considerable works.* In 1671 he builtThoresby-house in Nottinghamshire, burned a fewyears ago,…
