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" Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. "
The History of Belvoir Castle: From the Norman Conquest to the Nineteenth ... - Page 276
by Irvin Eller - 1841 - 410 pages
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Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the ..., Volume 3

Horace Walpole - Gardening - 1782 - 324 pages
...certainly fat to him, and while fitting, faid to him, " Mr. Lely, I defire you would ufe all your fkill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all thefe roughnefles, pimples, warts, and everything as you fee me, otherwife I never will pay a farthing...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...to Sir Peter Lely, he faid to him while fitting, " Mr. Lely, I defire you would ufe all your (kill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark all thefe roughuefles, pimples, warts, and every thing as you fee me, uthenvife I will never pay a farthing...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right ...

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...Lely, he faid to him while fitting, " Mr Lely, I defire you would ufe all your ikill to paint my pi&ure truly like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark all thefe roughnefiVs, pimples, warts, and every thing as you fee me, other.vifc 1 vrill never pay a farthing...
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Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste von ihrer Wiederauflebung bis auf die ...

Johann Dominik Fiorillo - Painting - 1808 - 934 pages
...fetnee SBatero, Ьев J&ev¿oge von ^uctui^âtn/ »erpfán* bete. • .. • ..a. paint my piâure truly like me, and not flatter me at ' all; but remark all theft- roughiicfcs, pimples, warts, and everything as you fee me, otherwife i never will pay a farthing...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...Oliver Cromwell sat to Sir Peter Lely, he said to him while sitting, " Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and every thing as you see me, otherwise 1 will never pay a farthing...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...Oliver Cromwell sat to Sir Peter Lely, he said to him while sitting : " Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and every thing as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...Oliver Cromwell sat to Sir Peter Lely, he said to him while sitting : " Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and every thing as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing...
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The Arts and Artists: Or Anecdotes & Relics, of the Schools of ..., Volume 1

James Elmes - Art - 1825 - 336 pages
...asserted that Cromwell certainly sat to him, and while sitting said to him, " Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark, all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and every thing as you see me, otherwise I never will pay a farthing...
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A General Dictionary of Painters: Containing Memoirs of the Lives ..., Volume 2

Matthew Pilkington - Painters - 1829 - 632 pages
...death of that monarch, he was called to paint that of Oliver Cromwell; who said to him, " Mr. Lely, I desire you will use all your skill to paint my picture...like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and every thing as you see me, otherwise I will never pay you a...
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The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for ...

Almanacs, English - 1867 - 428 pages
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