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 105
e had several brothers, artists, onea medallist at Vienna, and another at Venice, apainter of views. Richter was member of a clubwith Dahl and several gentlemen, whose headshis brother modelled by the life, and from thencemade medals in silver. I mention this as it mayexplain to collectors the… … was born at Geneva, May 18, 1668, and was de-signed for the church, but poverty obliged him toturn painter. At the age of twenty he quittedGeneva, worked at Dijon, and from thence re-paired to Paris, where, succeeding in miniature,he was approved of by the academy and counte-nanced by the king. The…
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