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 149
- He painted, designed and * [ff James Sharpe, Lord Archbishop of St. Andrews, whowas most barbarously murdered by the Rebels in Scotland.Thomas Dudley fecit, quondam discipulus W. Hollar, arms abovethe oval, 14Z. Bindley.] t [His genius was powerful, but erratic. He painted, de-signed and etched… … REIGN OF CHARLES II. 119 etched ;* Vertue had heard that he learned thelatter of Hollar, and has preserved a letter that hereceived from Mr. Place, in answer to his inqui-ries into that fact and about Hollar himself, ofwhom he relates on his own knowledge manyparticulars which Vertue has inserted…
