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 100
PuIblJahed by John Major, bO Fleet Street,0ctTl5,lB27. PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE I. 57 most in fashion.* At nineteen he painted his ownportrait in the finical manner of Denner, and exe-cuted the heads of an old man and woman in thesame style afterwards. He died suddenly in 1744,leaving a son,… … Born 1684, Died 1721. England has very slender pretensions to thisoriginal and engaging painter; he having comehither only to consult Dr. Meade, for whom he * [At Noseley in Leicestershire is a full length, by him, ofCaranus, a Swede, 27 years old, and seven feet ten inches high,who exhibited…
