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 338
painter, towhich, from what appears in his caustic History of Worces-tershire, it is certain, that the said history is very notoriouslydeficient in all that belongs to the arts. He tells us (from his PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I. 291 Jefferys)* which I mention not for the excellencyof them,… … Died 1658, was a painter in a different style from any we had own knowledge) In 1774, some pictures said to have beenby Butler, at Earls Croome (Lord Coventrys), were used tostop up windows and save the tax: —indeed they were Jit fornothing else. Worcestershire, v. ii. p. 391. However promising his…
