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 54
lfamily groups, inferior, but not greatly so, to thoseof his father. In 1722, he returned to Holland him constantly at work. His merit was such that his portraitis placed in the Gallery at Florence. Pilkington.] PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE I. 17 and lived splendidly upon the fruits of his… … No painter of so much eminence as Jervas, istaken so little notice of by Vertue in his memo-randums, who neither specifies the family, birth,or death of this artist. The latter happened athis house* in Cleveland-court, in 1739. Onewould think Vertue foresaw how little curiosityposterity would feel…
