Hogarth's Portrait.

Thomas Pellet, M. D. by Hall.
Bullock, the comedian: ditto.

Sir James Thornhill: by Mr. Ireland.
Hogarth: ditto.

Black Girl in bed: copied by ditto. Variation of Orator Henley christening a child: ditto.

Shepherd Boy: ditto.

The Politician: by Sherwin.
A Landscape by Mr. Ireland.
Jack in an Office: ditto.

Characters who frequented Button's Coffee-houfe; four plates: ditto.

Woman's head, as Diana: ditto.
Head of a black Girl: ditto.

Hogarth, in his portrait-conversations, was imitated by Phillips, a young man, who acquired great business. He was son of a painter in oil, who died in 1741, aged about fixty. The fon died much younger.

VOL. IV.

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ANE C

OF

PAINTING, &c.

CHA P. V.

Painters in Enamel and Miniature, Statuaries, and Medallifts, in the Reign of GEORGE II.

JOHN STEPHEN LIOTARD,

*

F Geneva, came over in the last reign,

OF

and stayed two years. He painted admirably well in miniature, and finely in enamel,

He was born in 1702, and was defigned for a mer chant. He went to study at Paris in 1725, and in 1738 accompanied the marquis de Puifieux to Rome, who was going ambassador to Naples. At Rome he was taken notice of by the earls of Sandwich and Befborough, then lord Duncannon, who engaged Liotard

to

mel, though he feldom practifed it. But he
is best known by his works in crayons. His
likeneffes were as exact as poffible, and too
like to please those who fat to him; thus he
had
bufinefs the first year, and very
great
little the fecond. Devoid of imagination, and
one would think of memory, he could render
nothing but what he faw before his eyes.
Freckles, marks of the fmall-pox, every
thing found its place; not fo much from
fidelity, as because he could not conceive the
absence of any thing that appeared to him.
Truth prevailed in all his works, grace in
very few or none. Nor was there any ease
in his outline; but the stiffness of a buft in
all his portraits. Thence, though more faith-
ful to a likeness, his heads want air and the
softness of flesh, so confpicuous in Rofalba's
pictures. Her bodies have a different fault;
she gave to men an effeminate protuberance.
about the breafts; yet her pictures have
to go with them on a voyage to Conftantinople. See
Museum Florent. vol. X. where lord Duncannon's name
is fpelt milord D'un Canon.

much more genius. The earls of* Harrington and Besborough have fome of his most capital works. At Conftantinople he became acquainted with the late lord Edgcumbe, and fir Everard Fawkener, our ambaffador, who perfuaded him to come to England. On his way he paffed fome time at Paris. In his journey to the Levant he adopted the eastern habit, and wore it here with a very long beard. It contributed much to the portraits of himself, and fome thought to draw customers; but he was really a painter. of uncommon merit. After his return, he married a young † wife, and facrificed his beard to Hymen. He came again to Eng-. land in 1772, and brought a collection of pictures of different mafters, which he fold.

* The earl of Sefton has purchased thofe that were in the collection of the late lord Harrington; one re. prefents Mademoiselle Gaucher, miftrefs of W. Anne. earl of Albemarle, in a Turkish drefs, fitting the other, a lady at breakfast and her maid.

Maria Fargues, daughter of a merchant at Am

fterdam.

by

by auction; and fome pieces of glass painted by himself with furprising effect of light and shade, but a mere curiofity, as it was neceffary to darken the room before they could be seen to advantage; he affixed too, as ufual, extravagant prices to them. He ftaid here about two years, as in his former journey. He has engraved fome Turkish portraits, one of the empress queen and the eldest arch-duchefs, in Turkish habits, and the heads of the emperor and emprefs.

CHRISTIAN FREDERIC

ZINCKE,

Was born at Drefden about 1684, and came to England in 1706, where he ftudied under Boit, whom at length he not only furpaffed, but rivalled Petitot. I have a head of Cowley by him after fir Peter Lely, which is allowed to excel any fingle work of that charming enameller. The impaffioned glow of fentiment, the eyes fwimming with youth and tenderness, and the natural fall of the

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