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British pictures and their painters: an anecdotal guide to the British section of the National gallery (1913)

Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 206

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both the wilful irritationof a progenitor and the desecration of the Sabbath.The skill of this portrait, however, did somethingto soften the fathers hostility, but although amaternal uncle smiled approvingly on all hisefforts, it was Dr. John Wolcot, the famous Peter Pindar, who was the boys most… … < -^ •_ ft* q is a <•> a ~ £ OPIE (JOHN) 147 give Nature a shove on the back if he saw herinclined to do right. He was also an amateurpainter and enthusiast for art, and some drawingsby Opie, then fifteen, attracted him. He becamethe boys patron, received him in his house in…

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