. Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions. , fenior, thearchitect. He continued the practice of portrait painting,but was not fuccefsful in his employment. Thinking he mightacquire more notice by an increafe of mew, he built for him-felf a houfe in Old Bond-ltreet, oppofite Burlington-gardens,foon after which he became bankrupt, and quitted London, forDublin. He did not long refide in the laft place, before herefolved to return to the Eaft Indies, whither he endeavouredto travel over land, but died near Aleppo, in the fpring o
. Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions. , fenior, thearchitect. He continued the practice of portrait painting,but was not fuccefsful in his employment. Thinking he mightacquire more notice by an increafe of mew, he built for him-felf a houfe in Old Bond-ltreet, oppofite Burlington-gardens,foon after which he became bankrupt, and quitted London, forDublin. He did not long refide in the laft place, before herefolved to return to the Eaft Indies, whither he endeavouredto travel over land, but died near Aleppo, in the fpring of 1798,leaving a widow, with a fon and daughter in England. The laft time he exhibited in London was in the year are feveral mezzotinto prints, after pictures painted byhim, viz. a whole-length of Mifs Eliot, the aclxefs, in the cha-racter of Juno; the portrait of Admiral Kempenfelt, whole-length ; and a large mezzotinto print of Mahomed Ali Cavvn,Naoob of Arcot, with his five fons, engraved from a picture ? which was exhibited by the Society of Artifts, in 1771, of whichhe was then a ?
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