An illustrative supplement to Pilkington's Dictionary of painters : consisting of biographical sketches, and one hundred and thirty-nine portraits (1805)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784. Dictionary of painters · London : Printed for John Stockdale · leaf 251
s some merit that carried suchbashful integrity as far as it did go. He was a strict Roman Catholic; yet even those principles could not warp his at-tachment to his art, nor prevent his making it subservient to the glory of his country.I mention this as a singular instance. His partiality to… … .^(mn Ci^/f//i ru^. /•//iU/i . i^^e/A. SUPPLEMENT TO THE PAINTEKS, Scc. ICJ were his. His was the first thousfht of encraving the tapestry in the house of lords;his a project of giving a series of protestaut bishops—for liis candour could reconciletoleration and popery. His collection of books,…
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