David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ But as the maiden name of Pierre’s wife was Sibelle Aikin, there can be little doubt that he himself was an immigrant from England. Frederic Casaubon was betrothed to Anne Le Blanc, native of Paris, daughter of Guillaume Le Blanc and Susanne Brondre, at London, on May 21, 1673. ”

“ When Horace Walpole was compiling his memorials of English painters, he made use of the previous researches of “Graham” (as he calls him) in the same field. This [Richard?] Graham, as I am led to believe, published a regular book, but I have been unsuccessful in my search for that book. But a learned correspondent has called my attention to a translation from the French of Roger de Piles’ “Art of Painting and Lives of the Painters,” to which translation, published in 1706, there is appended an “Essay towards an English School, with the lives and characters of 100 painters;” ”