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 84
l Ca-racci.—One knows what sort of temperamensAnibal painted. Claude died in 1675 at the age of forty-two;Roland died in Bear-street near Leicester-fieldsin 1677, about the 69th year of his age, and wasburied at St. Martins. Mercier, painter to the late prince of Wales,bought at an auction the… … remarkable for copying Vandyck well, and for * Abrege* de la Jrie des plus fameux Peintres, vol. ii. p. 331.t So he writes his name on the portrait of Flatman. In 64 PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OP CHARLES II. being a rival of Lely. A portrait of himself inwater-colours, purchased by Colonel Seymour atMr.…
