Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts (1826)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 · London : Printed at the Shakspeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major · leaf 314
esides,The Breviary of Health; a Dietary of Health; The merrytales of the mad men of Gotham ; a book extremely admiredand often reprinted in that age. A right pleasant and merryhistory of the mylner of Abingdon, with his wife and hisfair daughter, and of two poor scholars of Cambridge; andother… … W.ff.WcTthwgton. sajp? .TJS W QUEEN ELIZABETH. 265 his uncle, a tolerable painter and a better scholar.At eighteen he went to Delft, and placed himselfwith Antony Blockland, with whom he remaineda year. From thence he travelled to Fontain-bleau, where he worked with great applause, incompetition…
