The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 135
er husbands bed. Her con-duct, however had been so flagrant, that few were dis-posed to credit this assertion, though made at such anawful moment. Her death, therefore, excited no ex-pressions of pity or regret; but all rejoiced at the deathof the infamous Rochford, who suffered with… … HOLBEIN. This admirable painter was born at Basle, in 1498,and instructed in his art by his father, John Holbein,whom he soon excelled. Possessed of an elevated geniusand following nature as his model, he disregarded theGothic taste that prevailed among his countrymen, and,without having visited…
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