The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: Containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of the several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern. Being the most perfect work of the kind extant. Translated from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, an essay towards an English school.

  • Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709.
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[1754?]
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Abrégé de la vie des peintres. English

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London : Printed for Thomas Payne, in Castle-Street, next the Mews-Gate, near Charing-Cross, [1754?]

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[16],421,426-439,[1]p. ; 80.

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The third edition: in which is now first inserted the life of Sir Godfrey Kneller, by the Late B. Buckeridge, Esq; who wrote the greatest part of the English school.

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ESTC T71752

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