Identifier: anecdotesofpaint00edwa (find matches)
Title: Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Anecdotes of painting in England
Subjects: Painters Artists
Publisher: London : Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby, W.J. and J. Richardson, R. Faulder, T. Payne, and J. White
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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He was the pupil of Mr. Cipriani, but improved little underhis tuition. He was alfo admitted a ftudent of the RoyalAcademy, among the firft of thofe who entered that inftitution.In this fituation he made very flender advances in art, beingtoo indolent and inattentive to his ftudies to attain any excel-lence. His character is rather favourably defcribed in thefollowing paragraph, which appeared in one of the public papersfoon after his death : DIED, -(Afew days ago, at an obfcure lodging at Weftminfter, Mauritius Low, a painter of confiderable eminence in his profeffion at ftarting, being the perfon the Royal Academyfirft fent to Italy, to paint a picture according to one of the articles of their inftitution ; but being of a debauched habitw of mind, he painted no picture at Rome, but difTipated his * The fubjeft given for the piftures was, Time discovering Truth, with twoother figures of Envy and Detradion. The fize, a half-length canvafs. -f from the Sun, September 19> 1793. time
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--? .¥»* ,1/jJ- Sam r e l i > son, lji., Anecdotes of Painting. 221 time to no purpofe. He was a natural fon of the late Lord Sutherland, from whom he had an annuity. He was much efteemed by Dr. Johnfon, who bequeathed him a legacy, andflood to one of his children as godfather. Some of his con- verfations are recorded in Jemmy Bofwells book. He was a perfon of elegant education and agreeable addrefs. This account, like moil of the obituary anecdotes in thepublic papers, is partly true and partly falfe. Itmufl be allowed, that Mr. Lowes conduct while at Rome,to which place he was fent by the Royal Academy in 1771, isjuftly defcribed, but his being efteemed by Dr. Johnfon isextraordinary; for Mr. Lows morals, and religious, or, ratherirreligious, principles, muft have been very artfully concealed*or he never could have acquired fo much of the Doctors goodopinion as he certainly poffeffed. It muft alfo be obferved, thatthe legacy was left not to Mr. Low, but to his child, who wasthe

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