Identifier: dictionaryofpain02brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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m at the British Museum, and the manwho certainly by merit ought to have been headof that department, merits a place in this work onaccount of his own excellent artistic work no lessthan for his literary work on Art subjects. Hewas born in 1840, the son of the British Ministerat the Court of the Two Sicilies, and his birthplacewas Naples. His sympathies were always verystrongly with the Italian people, whose tongue hespoke with the most perfect accuracy, and muchof bis life was spent in Italy, and there it was thathe died in January 190.3, in his own house inFlorence. He had tr.avelled far and wide, as atone time when in the Foreign Office he was withhis father in Venezuela, and his knowledge ofSpanish and of Spanish manners rendered him avaluable assistant in the settlement, for the time,of the boundary questions. At another time hewas in France, and yet again in Sweden, buteventually at the desire of his close friend AntonyPanizzi be took office in the British Museum in Q< < O
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