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 167
rer, had singular merit in onebranch that will be mentioned. Mr. Strange,ashamed of the creeping and venal style to whichthe art was sunk in Britain, has given us the worksof Italian masters, with a tool worthy of Italianengravers. But yet there had been one English-man, who without the timid… … - I.OHD ON.lied hy Join. V. 328. REIGN OF CHARLES II. 131 WILLIAM FAITHORNE. Died 1691, he was born in London,* in what year is uncer-tain,-^ and bred under Peake,| painter and print-seller, afterwards knighted,^ with whom heworked for three or four years before the erup-tion of the civil war, and…
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