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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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as his grandfatherwas long fettled there, who, as Mr. Walpole obferves, was thelaft perfon knighted in Scotland before the Union. It is curious to note, that the writer of the paragraph abovementioned, fays nothing of his abilities as a limner for fo heftyles him, but obferves, that the public at large have juft caufe to deplore his lofs, from thatfuperior profefiional talent of which he Mas poffeffed, of refcuing from decay and ruin11 fome of the belt collections of pictures in the kingdom, a recent inftance of which occurred of that of our Scotti/h kings, in the palace of Holyrood Houfe, the renovation of which will long appear as monuments of his unrivalled merit. With him ends, in the male line, the name of Medina in this country. This is indeed a fpecimen of injudicious praife ; for, if thechief merit of Mr. Medina confifted in cleaning or renovatingdecayed pictures, his claim to the reputation of an artift maywell be denied to him, without the imputation of injuftice orfeverity.
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^K-v /v>w. TJ**jr- KJohn Medina. A necdotes of Painting, g 4 I H. W. SCHWEICKHARDT, A native of Holland, who, in confequence of the diiturbancesof that State, came to England in the year ) 786. He refided a few years in London, and painted cattle andlandfcape, particularly froft pieces, and was a frequent exhi-bitor at the Royal Acadtmy. His pictures were of that clafs which the Italians diftinguifhby the title of pafticcios, rather than original compofitions;but they were executed in a neat, pleafant ftyle, which wastheir principal merit. There is a colleftion of prints of animals, which were etchedand dedicated by him to Mr. Weft. This little work was pub-liflied by Meffrs. Boydell, and is dated J 788. He ceafed to exhibit in the year 1796, about which time hereturned to Holland. He ftyled himfelf Director of theAcademy at the Hague. WILLIAM HODGES, r.a. The only child of his parents, Mas born in London. Hisfather was a fmith, who kept a fmall fhop in St. Jamess-market. When youn

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