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Excerpt from A Biographical History of the Fine Arts, Vol. 1: Being Memoirs of the Lives and Works of Eminent Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; A to L English Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (b ryan's), and the completeness given to the Review of the Fine Arts by the introduction in the same work of Sculptors and Architects is a feature entirely new, that gives it an advantage over every existing body of art biography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.