Diary on Art Gossip (1803) [ Practices / People ]
… January 17. — Company I had to dinner. — Sharpe, Fuseli, Daniell, Halls & Smirke. Much conversation abt. Art. — Vasari, Fuseli sd. was a useful writer as His books contain much information of circumstancesand … had been taken out and it then proved that He was not possessed of more than 3 or 400 pounds a year. — January 26. — A conversation abt. different merits of artists. —Northcote sd. Beechey more original than Hoppner but his art is of a … of Barry's has written to Perry abt. him. … "Company I had to dinner. — Sharpe, Fuseli, Daniell, Halls & Smirke. Much conversation ab[ou]t Art." … Conversation … Aesthetics … Diaries … Gossip … Text taken from Joseph Farington, The …
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