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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 183

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EIAN HENNY, or HENNIN, one of the last painters who arrived in the reign of Charles 11. Little is known of him, but that having been two years in France, he adopted the manner of Caspar Poussin. Vertue thought he came in 1680 ; if so, the title- plate to a history of Oxford, designed by him, and… … was second son of Theophilus Tuer, by Catherine, niece of Mr. George Herbert, the poet : his grandfather and great- ^ Prior early in his life was patronised by that noble family, and by his pleasing verses has added celebrity to that venerable palace, sacred by the memory of Bur- leigh, and…

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