bill kilpatrick wrote: > couldn't find anything on-line about this painter - do > you have any sources? "... died in prison in paris in > 1795" summons up all-sorts of sydney carton-like > imagery. > > - bill > >
The scan is from a dictionary of artists. James was a pupil of A. Pond (?). He lived in Italy for a bit and then London, then Bath and finally in France. The caption to the illustration of 'The three Misses Walpole' says, rather tartly: "An example of the charm and talent which James was capable of displaying if he had not been so idle. > --- Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The painter George James was born in London and died >> in a prison in >> Paris in 1795. Here's an illustration of one of his >> paintings form 1768: >> >> http://www.tuningsinthirds.com/GJames/ >> >> A young girl is holding a small English guitar. The >> instrument looks >> convincing. She could cope with peg tuning!? >> >> R.B. Armstrong, writing about the English guitar in >> 1911 noted three >> different sizes of EG. Perhaps this is an example of >> the smallest size. >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> >> > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of unwanted email come-ons? Let our SpamGuard > protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > >
