A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn (1911)
Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928 · Boston : Dana Estes and Co. · leaf 416
no pleasure in the company of aristocrats and thefashionable. In 1787, on the death of his father, he was urgedto take up the baronetcy to which he was thereby entitled.Not only would he not give half-a-guinea for a title, heabsolutely refused to apply for the baronetcy to which he wasthe… … OF PAINTING with there was as much honour in heing a fine painter as WHEREIN a titled gentleman ; that he would have borne the disgrace of WE SEE a title had there been any income to accompany it ; but, as THE matters stood, he swore he would wear none of the fooleries of I^AWNING his ancestors. ^^…
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