Dictionarium polygraphicum: or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ... adorned with proper sculptures, curiously engraven on more than fifty copper plates .. (1735)
Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics · London, C. Hitch and C. Davis [etc.] · leaf 99
redeceflbrs. And, notwithftanding the criticks fay he preferred almoftin all his faces a languiliiing air, loog eye, and a drowfy fweet-neft, peculiar to himfelf, for which they reckon him a Man-.Tterifl, and that he retained a little ot the greenifh caft in his -complexions; whatever of this kind… … L I B He was likewife a gooJ hiftory-painter: his crayon draughtsare alfo admirable, and thofe are reckoned rhe moll valuable ofhis pieces, which were all done entirely by his own hand. The Earl of Pembroke recommended him to king Chnrles IL\Vho made him his principal painter, and knighted him. He…
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