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 86
l Ca-racci.—One knows what sort of temperamensAnibal painted. Claude died in 1675 at the age of forty-two;Roland died in Bear-street near Leicester-fieldsin 1677, about the 69th year of his age, and wasburied at St. Martins. Mercier, painter to the late prince of Wales,bought at an auction the… … remarkable for copying Vandyck well, and for * Abregi de la Fie des plus fameux Peintres, vol. ii. p. 331.t So he writes his name on the portrait of Flatman. In 64 PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OP CHARLES II. being a rival of Lely. A portrait of himself inwater-colours, purchased by Colonel Seymour atMr.…
