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 248
ead pencil upon vellom, previously to hisengraving it. Many of his portraits which were hastily andcheaply done, to embellish the title pages of books, are defi-cient in point of neatness, but Granger observes, that it wascompensated by the truth of his drawing, in which he wasnever exceeded. He… … REIGN OF CHARLES II. 207 Vertue thought them superior to his prints. Theheads of Sir Godfrey Kneller and his brother inSandrart, were engraved from drawings by White,whose portrait Sir Godfrey drew in return. Manyof the portraits in Sandfords curious coronationof James II. were done from the life,…
