Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers (1903)
Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821, Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 338
of the same size as the canvas he intendedto use. Finally, when every incident was decidedon and numberless studies had been made, hebegan upon the picture itself, and so thoroughlywas he by then acquainted with every detail heproposed to embody in it, that although, as hasbeen said, months or even… … >«/,■ hul/,r yii/iii ilyi//,///,/ i t/i, ^Ja/(fMr. /l.in/ PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. npon it the completed work was left for severalyears, that it might dry thoroughly before it wasvarnished by his own hand with the utmost care.There was never a more notable illustration of thedisputed dictum that…
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