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… also had, often adjacent to their painting room, a showroom or art gallery which he described in 1756 in his The Present State of the Arts in England : Every portrait painter in England has a room to show his pictures, separate from that in … softly, and giving some money to the footman, they go about their business. 7 7 . Jean André Rouquet, The Present State of the Arts in England (Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing, 1756), p. 39-40. The original work was published in … many onlookers, portraitists frequently had to put up with running commentary on and interruption of work in progress, a state of affairs which Jonathan Richardson seems, for his own part, to have found difficult to handle and against which …
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