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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m en-titled. He was living in 1783, as appears from the Eflaidun Tableau Hiltorique des Peintres de lEcole Francoife,publimed in that year at Paris, in which he is faid to haverefided long in Spain, and to have executed feveral works inthat country. EDWARD FRANCIS CALZE, A native of the ftate of Lucca, who was introduced into Eng-land, and much patronifed by the fecond Lord Lyttleton. Calze painted in crayons, but with no great powers. His pro-fligacy and want of principle obliged him to leave England, butnot before he had ill-treated his patron, who compelled him toatone for his improper conduct in one of the courts of Weft-minfter Hall. Soon after this tranfaelion, Calze quitted Lon-don, and went to Pruffia, where he was for fometime employedby the court, but his behaviour there was alfo fo improper, thathe was forced to retire from Berlin. While he was in London, he was an exhibitor at the RoyalAcademy, from the year 1770 to 1773, about which time hereturned to the Continent. There
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Lewis Francis RorBiix-v Anecdotes of Painting. 4. There are fome prints after pictures which he painted, one,in particular, is the portrait of Admiral Sir Samuel Hood,(now Vifcount Hood) engraved by Albanefi in 1782. ADRIAN CARPENTIERS, A foreigner, but whether a native of France or Switzerland,is not known. One of his belt performances was a half-lengthof Mr. Roubilliac the fculptor, from which there is a very goodmezzotinto, fcraped by Mr. David Martin, and which is anexcellent likenefs. In the latter part of his life, he refided at Pimlico, where hedied, though, at what time can only be guefled by his ceafingto exhibit, the laft year being in 1774, when he was far ad-vanced in years. BERNARD DOWNES Was a portrait painter, who refided in London, and occafionalfyvifited different parts of the country. His name ftands in thefecond Exhibition Catalogue, and is continued till the year1775, when he ceafed to exhibit. He did not long furvive. His abilities as an artift were not very confi

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