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 · 34 pictures

Anecdotes of Painting in England is an 1876 London edition by Chatto and Windus, compiled from the writings of Horace Walpole, James Dallaway, George Vertue and Ralph Nicholson Wornum, and aimed at readers of art history. Its pictures are small wood-engraved portraits of English painters and sitters, mostly men in periwigs and period dress, drawn in dense hatched lines against plain backgrounds. A designer could take from them the crosshatched engraving texture, the sculpted curls of baroque wigs, and the tight oval vignette framing used for historical portraits.

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