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 287
s at each end were afterwards addedby Sheperd. X Lord Burlington being consulted by the citizens for aproper person to carve the bas-relief in the pediment of theMansion-House, his Lordship replied, any body could do wellenough for such a building. [The fact was, that the archi-tect, G. Dance, who… … ARCHITECTS IN THE REIGN OP GEORGE II. 22$ WILLIAM KENT, Born 1684, Died 1748. Under the auspices of Lord Burlington and LordPembroke, architecture, as I have said, recoveredits genuine lustre. The former, the Apollo of arts,found a proper priest in the person of Mr. Kent.As I mean no panegyric on…
