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 60
EIGN OF GEORGE I. 23 of garrets, or flutter into rags before a brokersshop at the Seven Dials. Such already has beenthe fate of some of those deathless beauties, whoPope promised his friend should* Bloom in his colours for a thousand years : And such, I doubt, will be the precipitate catas-trophe… … Born 1665, Died 1745, was undoubtedly one of the best English painters * [Popes injudicious and undeserved praise has been a sub-ject of the caustic criticism of Barry. See Works, 4to. v. ii.pp. 399, 400, 401.] 24 PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE I, of a head, that had appeared in this country.There…
