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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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laft, is a view in Hungary;he muft confequently have left London before that time. 110 Anecdotes of Painting. JOHN EOLDSONE. A painter of portraits in oil, fmall heads, of no great merit,but with fufficient likenefs to procure much employment at afmall price. His practice was to attend his fitters at theirdwellings. He commonly began in the morning, generallydined with them, if they lived at a diftance, and finifhed hiswork before evening. He died young, about the year 1784,leaving a wife and fmall family. The eldeft daughter ftudiedminiature painting and fucceeded, but unfortunately beftowedher hand in marriage on a man, who pretended both to familyand fortune, without being poflefTed of either. Foldfone madefome attempts in hiftorical painting, but they were too feebleto claim the notice of pofterity. J. ALEFO UNDER, Painted Portraits, and refided for fome years in Bow-ftreet,Covent-garden. He went to the Eaft Indies, about the year1785, but died there after a few years refidence. /
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I v> BATTISTA CIPRIAH t, ESQTB l-uld.i:..! ■;.l.-,.,i/-:i.,l.y->-l«*-l»r»1 ll,A,MIn„,1.nH,,,.^N;.: Anecdotes of Painting. ill JOHN BAPTIST CIPRIANI, r. a. Defcended from an ancient family in Florence, where he wasborn. He received his firft inftruciion from an Englifh artift ofthe name of Heckford *, who had fettled in that city, and after-wards went under the tuition of Gabiani, a painter of celebrityat that time in Italy. In Auguft 1755, he came to England, with Mr. Wilton andSir William Chambers,, on their return from the Continent, andwas patronized in this country by the late Earl of Tilney, butthat noblemans intereft was not very advantageous to him. In the fpring of 1758, the Duke of Richmond opened theGallery at his houfe, in Privy Garden, and Mr. Cipriani, toge-ther with Mr. Wilton, were appointed to vifit the ftudents:The former gave inftruclions to thofe who purfued painting,the latter, to thofe who ftudied fculpture; but this fchool ofart was not of long durat

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