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Title: Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Anecdotes of painting in England
Subjects: Painters Artists
Publisher: London : Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby, W.J. and J. Richardson, R. Faulder, T. Payne, and J. White
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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picture, which was feldom the original work of anymafter, but commonly the production of fome practical copyift*,who lubfiited by manufacturing fuch decorative pieces, and wasglad to furnifh a landfcape on a half length canvafs for forty orfifty millings. This faihion continued about half a century, buthad greatly declined at the period when the Exhibitions were firfteftablifhed; fince which there has been a total change in the ftyleof interior domeftic decorations. While painting was thusmaking flow advances, or rather ftruggling for exiftence, the artsof drawing and engraving were but feebly maintained by the ac-cidental demand of print fellers and bookiellers, who began, aboutthe early part of the laft century, to decorate their publicationsin a ftyle of elegance fuperior to what had before been attemptedin this country. * Among the artif;s, whofe works were moft confidered in this line of decoration,were Vogelfang, Yandieft, Cooper, (,radoc, &c. See their names in Walpole. But
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