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 319
for though the elder Dahl and Kichardson, and a very few more had merit in some particulars, I cannot help again advertising my readers, that no reign, since the arts have been in any es- teem, produced fewer works that will deserve the attention of posterity. As the reign too was of no long… … the assistant and imitator of Verrio, with whose name his will be preserved when their united labours shall be no more, both being immortalized by that unpropitious line of Pope, " Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre." The same redundancy of history and fable is displayed in the works of…
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