The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters

containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists, who have flourished in the art of painting, at Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, and other cities of Italy; in Holland, Flanders, England, Germany or France; from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767; including above five hundred years, and the number of artists amounting to near one thousand four hundred : extracted from the most authentic writers who have treated on the subject of painting, in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Low Dutch : to which are added, two catalogues : the one, A catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters, for the use of those who desire to obtain a critical knowledge of the different hands and manners of the different schools : the other, A catalogue of those painters who imitated the works of the eminent masters so exactly, as to have their copies frequently mistaken for originals : the whole being digested in a more easy and instructive method than has hitherto appeared; and calculated for general entertainment and instruction, as well as for the particular use of admirers and professors of the art of painting

by Pilkington, Matthew