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 431
PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I. 343 Midleton's. I have his own and his wife's portrait by him in small ovals on copper; they were my father s. The wife is stiff and Dutch : his own is inimitable. Though worked up to the tender smoothness of enamel, it has the greatest freedom of pencil, the… … was son^ of the famous painter of architecture, and learned that manner of his father. I find no particulars of the time of his arrival here, or when he died. It is certain he worked for King Charles.^ The ground to the portrait of that prince, in the royal palace at Turin, I believe, was 1 [Bought…
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