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The works of Horatio Walpole, earl of Orford (1798)

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, Edwards, James, 1757-1816, G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England) · London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson ... and J. Edwards ... · leaf 453

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at Wilton two pieces of tapeftry after the Cartoons of Raphael, withthe workmans name Stephen Mayn, and his arms, a crofs of St. Georgeprobably executed long before this period, and perhaps not in England. If our painters in oil were not of the firft rate during the period I have beendefcribing, in… … PAINTERS in the REIGN of CHARLES ll. 325 SAMUEL COOPER owed great part of his merit to the works of Vandyck, and yet may be calledan original genius, as he was the fir ft who gave the ftrength and freedom ofoil to miniature. Olivers works are touched and retouched with fuch carefulfidelity, that…

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