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 140
n he had notpassed the forty-sixth year of his age, and was * He had a house too at Putney; a view of which, underthe satiric title of Bearsdenhall, was published about 1720.V. Brit. Topogr. vol. ii. p. 280. IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE I. 93 buried in the church-yard on the north side nextto the steps.… … €fje portico oi <£>t, ^arttnjs Ctmrcl). [94 ] CHAPTER III. Painters in the Reign of King George II. It is with complacency I enter upon a more shin-ing period in the history of arts, upon a new sera;for though painting made but feeble efforts to-wards advancement, yet it was in the reign…