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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 43

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D7 CHAPTER XXI. PAINTERS IN ENAMEL AND MINIATURE, STATUARIES, AND MEDALLISTS, IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE II. JOHN STEPHEN LIOTARD, … of Geneva,’ came over in the last reign, and stayed two years. He painted admirably well in miniature, and finely in enamel, though he seldom practised it. But he is best known by his works in crayons. His likenesses were as exact as possible, and too like to please those who sat to him; thus he…

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