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 39
-son, and a very few more had merit in someparticulars, I cannot help again advertising myreaders, that no reign, since the arts have been inany esteem, produced fewer works, that will de-serve the attention of posterity. As the reign toowas of no long duration, most of the artists hadlived under… … Born 16G3, Died 1721. PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OP GEORGE I. 5 name his will be preserved when their unitedlabours shall be no more, both being immorta-lized by that unpropitious line of Pope, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre. the same redundancy of history and fable is dis-played in the…
