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… even brawled in their home-based studios. Vertue, for instance, reported in 1726 that, having lost his nose in the ‘Garden of Venus’, the painter Christian Richter (1678-1732) found himself prevented from ‘reaping such advantages by his … In London, many, including William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds, made the move up and westward from the area around Covent Garden to Leicester Fields, while Thomas Gainsborough joined Nathaniel Hone and Richard Cosway (1742-1821) on Pall … Artist’s Studio (Compton Verney: Hogarth Arts, 2009). Wedd, Kit, Lucy Peltz and Cathy Ross, ‘1685-1800. Markets for Art: Covent Garden and Leicester Square’, in Kit Wedd, Lucy Peltz and Cathy Ross (eds.), Artists’ London (London: Merrell …
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