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Title: Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Anecdotes of painting in England
Subjects: Painters Artists
Publisher: London : Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby, W.J. and J. Richardson, R. Faulder, T. Payne, and J. White
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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JZZiitjLe /fa f/74.4 1/ Itr/tiS ds/..L/ivi/p,i~il- PREFACE. THAT lively and plealant writer, the late Honourable HoraceWalpole, * to whom the public is obliged for a molt enter-taining and ufeful work, the Anecdotes of Painting, did notpublifh his laft volume until the year l 7SO, though, as he acknow-ledges, it was written ten years before ; confequently there was aIapfe of twenty years between the accefiion of his prefentMajeity to the throne, and the period when that honourablebiographer terminated his work. From * Horace Walpole was third and youngefl fori to Sir Robert Walpole, K. G-many years prime minuter to George the Firlt and Second. His mother, who wasSir Roberts rirlt lady, was daughter to John Shorter, Eiq; of Bybrook in Kent: lhedied 1737. Horace, or Horatio, for his name is fometimes written in the former, and fome-times in the latter manner, received his education at Eton ; from thence wasremoved to Cambridge; and afterwards vilited Italy, in company with Mr. Gray thep

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