Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877, Bromley, William, 1769-1842, Worthington, William Henry, approximately 1795-approximately 1839, Cook, Henry R, Cook, John William, Engleheart, Francis, 1775-1849, Audinet, P, Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, Thomson, J., engraver, Raddon, W, Thomson, Paton, b. ca. 1750, Warren, A. W. (Alfred William), Gibbon, Benjamin Phelps, 1802-1851, Robinson, John Henry, 1796-1871, Finden, W. (William), 1787-1852, Skelton, William, 1763-1848, Watt, W. H, Edwards, William Camden, 1777-1855, Doo, George Thomas, 1800-1886, Cooper, Robert, fl. 1795-1836, Bond, William, fl. 1799-1833, Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841 · 1876 · London : Chatto and Windus · 38 pictures

Anecdotes of Painting in England is a 1876 London art-history compilation by Chatto and Windus, drawing on Horace Walpole, James Dallaway, George Vertue and Ralph Wornum for readers interested in English painters. Its pictures are small hand-cut wood engravings of artists as seated or half-length portraits in 17th and 18th century dress, with dense hatching in the wigs, fur collars and drapery. A designer could take from them the crosshatched linework and dense curled hair treatment used for period portraits.

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