Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists by Horace Walpole. With additions by James Dallaway, and Vertue's catalogue of engravers who have been born or have resided in England. (1888)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 · London, S. Sonnenschein and Lowrey · leaf 143
54 was elected Fellow of New College, but left Oxford without taking a degree. Sone of his poems were published in a volume with his name ; others, with some singular circum- stances relating to them, are mentioned by Antony Wood.! Flatman had a small estate at Tishton, near Dis in Norfolk, and… … a man of indigent circumstances, studied first in the palace of Fontainebleau, where he was born in 1633, and then at Paris under Le Sueur and Le Brun, the latter of whom advised him to adhere to portraits, for which he had a particular talent. The French author,’ from whom I tran- scribe, says,…
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