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 209
o ispleased to declare that he himself will see all the prizes put inamong the blanks, and that the whole shall be managed withall equity and fairness, nothing being intended but the sale ofthe jewels at a moderate value. What a sketch is here presented of the times of Charles theSecond, when the… … Born 1623, Died 1677, though a painter of some reputation, belongs tothis work in the light only of engraver. He wasborn at Lisle in 1623, but studied under ErasmusQuellin at Antwerp, on leaving whose school heapplied himself to portrait-painting; and beingadvised to go to Franckfort against the…
