Notes and Queries, Vol. 12: A Medium Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; July December, 1909 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 12: A Medium Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; July December, 1909

Vol. I. P. 22, it is recorded that he was born in 1727, and was established at Vienna in or about 17 83. He passed four years at Dresden. He left there in 1752, and went to Paris, after copying at Dresden all the beautiful battle pictures of the galerie électorale. Jacques, having met his brother Francois in Paris, offered to use his influence with his great acquaintances in order that Francois might be received into the Académie. This offer Francois refused, confessing that a former rejection by the Académie had been quite right, but adding that to-day, counting on the appreciation of talent by the French, he looked for a better reception (iii.

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