Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists (1826)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 107
57 CHAPTER IV. PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII. 1509. … that even merit has a chance of getting bread. Though Henry had no genius to strike out the improvements of latter ages, he had parts enough to choose the best of what the then world exhibited to his option. He was gallant, as far as the rusticity of his country and the boisterous indeli- cacy of…
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