joined the sister arts, and painted several small pieces in water-colours for his amusement. That seraphic dame, Mrs. Rowe, also painted. A gentleman from whom I received these notices has a bust of the above-mentioned Mr. Hughes done by her in Indian ink. There lived about the same time one Constantine, a landscape-painter, and Mr. White, a limner; Mr. Hughes addressed a poem to the former.
a gentleman who painted in miniature, and that (being very gallant) seldom but for ladies. In Mr. Rose's sale, 1723, was a head of Snelling by Cooper, 1644, finely painted, but the hands and drapery poor. Mr. Beale mentions him in one of his pocket-books, 1 for sending presents of colours to his wife, in 1654 and 1658; and that in 1678, Mr. Snelling offered him thirty guineas for a Venus and Cupid, after Rottenhamer, for which he asked forty guineas and was worth fifty. I do not know whether this person was related to Thomas Snelling, a poet recorded in Wood's Athenœ, vol. ii. p. 135.
(1632—1697,)
was daughter of Mr. Cradock, minister of Walton-upon- Thames, 2 and learned the rudiments of painting from Sir
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Publication information:
Book title: Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the Principal Artists.
Volume: 2.
Contributors: Horace Walpole - Author.
Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 1888.
Page number: 153.
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