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 84
ver painted in oil.] f There is a mezzotinto of Flatman holding a drawing ofCharles II. en medaille; and a smaller head, painted by Hayls,and neatly engraved by R. White. X Athene, vol. ii. p. 825. [One of his best miniatures was PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OP CHARLES II. 61 Flatman had a small estate at… … a man of indigent circumstances, studied first inthe palace of Fontainbleau, where he was born in1633, and then at Paris under Le Sueur and LeBrun, the latter of whom advised him to adhereto portraits, for which he had a particular talent.The French author,* from whom I transcribe,says that in that…
