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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 343

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he brazen figure of Henry VI. at Eton-Col-lege—a wretched performance indeed! A magnificent monument in Fulham-Church forthe Lord Viscount Mordaunt. Bird received 250/.for his part of the sculpture. The sumptuous monument of the last Duke ofNewcastle in Westminster-abbey, erected by theCountess of… … IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE. 297 At Lord Oxfords auction was sold his copy ofthe faun. Bird died in 1731, aged 64. SIR JOHN VANBRUGH belongs only to this work in a light that is by nomeans advantageous to him. He wants all themerit of his writings to protect him from the cen-sure due to his…

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