The History of the Squares of London Topographical Historical
The History of the Squares of London Topographical Historical
E Beresford Edwin Beresford Chancellor
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, once lived at Powis House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, which he left at the end of 1700, when he took Winchester House, 21 St. James's Square, for about a year. 154 THE SQUARES OF LONDON he was patronised by the Duke of Argyll. In 1723 he came to London and settled himself in a house in Leicester Square. His portraits of Gay, Thomson, and Fletcher of Saltoun are considered some of his best works, but his limitations will be apparent when it is remembered that he took Kneller as his model. Besides h...is talent as a painter, he must have possessed many attractions as a man, if we can judge by his friends, among whom were numbered such men as Swift, Pope, Thomson, Allan Ramsay, Somerville, and Mallet. Aikman died in June 1731 ; Mark Noble, by some unaccountable error, placing the date of his decease just ten years later. About the same time Sir James Thornhill, a decorative artist of merit, but perhaps now chiefly remembered as Hogarth's father-in-law, was also living in the Square.^ He was born at Melcombe Regis in 1676, and was a nephew, on his mother's side, of the well-known Dr.
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