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 265
whom he quitted in 1712, and was employed in the same service by others ; but his chief business was in mending drawings and old pictures, in which he was very skilful.^ Pieters and Bakker were both kind to Virtue in his youth, and gave him instructions, which he acknowledges with great gratitude.… … one of the greatest masters that has appeared for painting flowers. They are not so exquisitely finished as Van Huy- 1 He was so poor that he engaged himself as a domestic in the service of Cardinal Dada, the pope's nuncio ; but quitted him before night. 2 He excelled in copying Rubens, and even…
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