Anecdotes Of Painting in England; With some Account of the principal Artists; And incidental Notes on other Arts; Collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; And now digested and published from his original MSS. By Mr. Horace Walpole. The Second Edition. ... Vol. I. (- III.)
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
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The work is dedicated by the author to Mary Leppel, Baroness Dowager Hervey of Ickworth.
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ESTC, T63190
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Most plates are portraits of artists.
Best known for his lively and informative correspondence and as author of the Gothick novel, The Castle of Otranto, Walpole was also an active patron of the arts - the builder of the neo-Gothic Strawberry-Hill and advocate of the Gothic Revival. His collections supported his historical curiosity. He had already published his catalogue of his father's collection of paintings (Aedes Walpolianae, 1747) when he acquired George Vertue's notes in 1758, which he edited, supplemented and began to print on his own press in 1762. The Anecdotes remain a useful source-compendium for the history of art in Britain.
The author was a friend of Joshua Reynolds, who painted two portraits of him, as well as two group-portraits of his friends and family.
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Art history - Biography - Anecdotes - Reference books - 18th century
Pictorial works - 18th century
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Thomas Kirgate, printer
Charles Grignion, engraver
Alexander Bannerman, engraver
Thomas Chambers ARA, engraver
Anthony Walker, engraver
Johann Sebastian Müller, engraver
Mary Hervey Baroness Hervey of Ickworth, dedicatee
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, previous owner, donor
Strawberry Hill Press, printer, publisher
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Frontispiece of Queen Eleanor and Henry III
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Title-page
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Henry 5th his Queen and Family, 1765
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Marriage of Henry 6th., 1765
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John Mabuse., 1765
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Marriage of Henry 7th, 1765
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Hans Holbein., 1765
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Sir Antonio More., 1765
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Joas Van Cleeve., 1765
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Edward Courtney, Earl of Devonshire, 1765
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Cornelius Ketel., 1765
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Frederic Zucchero., 1765
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Marc Garrard., 1765
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Isaac Oliver
Henry Cornelius Vroom., 1765
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Nicholas Hilliard., 1765
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Isaac Oliver
Isaac Oliver., 1765
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Sir Nathaniel Bacon
Sir Nathaniel Bacon., 1765
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