The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 133
d be hard to find a man so well entitled to notice byhis wit, that was delighted so much in talking of hismoney. In his Letters and in his Poems, his gardenand his grotto, his quincunx and his vines, are some hintsof his opulence. The great topic of his ridicule is po-verty—the crime with which he… … LcndoivTiibUshfii PUGET. Peter Puget, who has been justly sirnamed theM. Angelo of Fjance, was, like that wonderful artist,equally distinguished as an able painter, a great architect,and a celebrated sculptor. He w^as born at Marseilles, in1622, with all that impetuosity of character, which…
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