Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts; Collected by the Late Mr. George Vertue, Volume 4Thomas Farmer, 1771 - Artists |
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... finishing . Kneller had exaggerated the curls of full - bottomed wigs and the tiaras of ribbands , lace and hair , till he had ftruck out a graceful kind of unnatural grandeur ; but the fucceeding modes were still less favourable to ...
... finishing . Kneller had exaggerated the curls of full - bottomed wigs and the tiaras of ribbands , lace and hair , till he had ftruck out a graceful kind of unnatural grandeur ; but the fucceeding modes were still less favourable to ...
Page xi
... finishing . Kneller had exaggerated the curls of full - bottomed wigs and the tiaras of ribbands , lace and hair , till he had struck out a graceful kind of unnatural grandeur ; but the succeeding modes were still less favourable to ...
... finishing . Kneller had exaggerated the curls of full - bottomed wigs and the tiaras of ribbands , lace and hair , till he had struck out a graceful kind of unnatural grandeur ; but the succeeding modes were still less favourable to ...
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... finished accuracy that in fo many Flemish painters almost atones for want of genius . He was born at Antwerp in 1684 , and in 1708 came over with his brother Peter Tillemans . In 1716 he made a fhort journey to his native city , but ...
... finished accuracy that in fo many Flemish painters almost atones for want of genius . He was born at Antwerp in 1684 , and in 1708 came over with his brother Peter Tillemans . In 1716 he made a fhort journey to his native city , but ...
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... finished a cieling at Buckingham- house , for which the duchess paid him 500l . He was also employed on the chapel of Canons , that large and coftly palace of the duke of Chandos , which by a fate as tranfient as its founder's , barely ...
... finished a cieling at Buckingham- house , for which the duchess paid him 500l . He was also employed on the chapel of Canons , that large and coftly palace of the duke of Chandos , which by a fate as tranfient as its founder's , barely ...
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... finish them . Nor did he even find a purchafer here ; but the em- peror bought the picture for fix hundred ducats . At Hamburgh he began a companion to it , an old man , which he brought over and finished here in 1726 , and fold like ...
... finish them . Nor did he even find a purchafer here ; but the em- peror bought the picture for fix hundred ducats . At Hamburgh he began a companion to it , an old man , which he brought over and finished here in 1726 , and fold like ...
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