EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS.

GREAT ENGLISH PAINTERS.

ENGLISH PAINTERS.

Selected Biographies from Allan Cunningham's "Lives of
Eminent British Painters."

ARRANGED AND EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION,

BY WILLIAM SHARP.

LONDON:

WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1886.

ND 496 .C85 1886

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

INTRODUCTION—

Art and Artists in England up to the time of Holbein

-Holbein Sir A. Moro-Oliver-Vandyke-George

Jamesone-Sir Peter Lely-Sir Godfrey Kneller-Sir

James Thornhill

WILLIAM HOGARTH

RICHARD WILSON

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS

THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH

WILLIAM BLAKE

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