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 229
ogarth was inducedto descend from the high station to which his works had ele-vated him as a Moralist, although in two instances only—when he yielded to the order of a profligate nobleman, to paintfor him, two licentious pictures j which were afterwards en-graved—and when he sacrificed a firm… … Of Geneva,* came over in the last reign, andstayed two years. He painted admirably well inminiature, and finely in enamel, though he seldom * He was born in 1702, and was designed for a merchant.He went to study at Paris in 1725, and in 1738 accompaniedthe Marquis de Puisieux to Rome, who was going…
