Identifier: anecdotesofpaint00edwa (find matches)
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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he died in March 1784, leaving a widow and family. The landfcapes of Mr. Barret bore a high character duringhis life-time, but, fince his death, their fame has fomethingdiminished : Their ftyle is perfectly original, formed from nature,felected among the rocky fcenes of his native ifland, and thenorth weftern counties of England. It muft be confelfed, that there is a want of harmonythroughout his pictures, which, in general, exhibit in his treesthe deep greens of midfummer, oppofed to the orange tints ofautumn, thereby producing an oppofition in the colouring,which is by no means pleafing even when exhibited in nature. Mr. Barret made feveral drawings, chiefly in water colours.Some of them have confiderable merit, and he fometimespainted animals, which he executed in a bold and mafterlymanner. He alfo left fome etchings of his performance, they are asfollows: A View in the Dargles, near Dublin, 11 in. \ long by 8 in. \. Six ( - ) Tim )R? Mo^T5 eid>mcto> Burke Drawn from the Life
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N < ■ • Anecdotes of Tainting. 99 Six Views of Cottages near London ; one of them is a view of Wilfden Church, but reverfed, and not very correct 8 in. long by 5 in. f.A large Landfcape with Cottages. Of thefe productions*, the firit is the beft, the others were tooftrongly bitten by the aqua fortis, and are not very mafterly;they are all without name or date. The plates of thefe etchings were bought by Mr. Paul Sandby,but no impreflions have yet been publifhed. Befides thefe works, there is a print of a quarto fize, which ismarked as etched by himfelf, but it is difficult to diflinguiflihis portion of the work, as it is evidently finifhed by fomeengraver. The fubjecl is a view of Hawarden Caftle, publifhedbyBoydell, 1773. NATHANIEL HONE, R. A. A native of Dublin. His father was in the mercantile line inthat city, and the fon, having a natural inclination to painting,acquired the art by his own induftry. When he came to England is not known; but early in lifehe painted in fever

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