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 620
fome foreign gentlemen. JACQUES ANTOINE ARLAUD was born at Geneva, May 18, 1668, and was defigned for the church, butpoverty obliged him to turn painter. At the age of twenty he quitted Geneva,,worked at Dijon, and from thence repaired to Paris, where, fircceeding in mi-niature, he was approved of… … PAINTERS in the REIGN of GEORGE I. 429 copied a Leda, my author fays from a bas-relief of Angelo, I rather fuppofe-it was the famous Leda of Coreggio dcftroyed by the bigotry of the regentsfon, all Paris was ftruck with the performance. The due de la Force gavetwelve thoufand livres for it ; but…
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