George A. Aitken

Capitolo 50

_Spectator_, Nos. 6, 339).]

[Footnote 90:  Vanderbank, or as his/her father he/she sometimes wrote his/her name,
Vandrebanc, was a child of Pietro Vanderbank, a Parisian in that it entered
England with Gascar the painter, approximately 1674 and it died to Bradfield, in
Hertfordshire, in 1697. His/her father was admired for him the softness of his
presses, and even more for the ransom of them, some of his/her heads that are the
greater that had appeared then in England;  but the prices from which he has received
any means it compensated for the time assumed on his/her jobs, and he was
reduced to want, and it died to the house of the Mr. Forester, his
brother-in-law. After his/her death, his/her widow sold his/her dishes to one Brown,
a press-seller that a great profit did from them. His the oldest child had of it
divides in the theater to Dublin;  the more youth, William was a poor man
labourer that gave an account of his/her father and the family to Vertue.
The person probably mentioned in this paper was the name-child of his/her father,
and it would be, as the conjectures of Walpole, an engraver. Whatever worry the
it is probable that father would have had in some product of tapestry, he could not be
the person wanted to say here, for to this point he had been dead above of ten
years. The succession of tapestry, in the Duke of the sale of Ancaster with
The name of Vanderbank to him, mentioned from Walpole, it has to be therefore
supposed to belong to his/her child that is said on the authority of the
French translator of the _Tatler_, to have represented nature very
happily in jobs of tapestry, and to have been an inimitable man in this
way. (Sees the "Anecdotes of Walpole to Paint", 1782, vol.  v. p. 166.)]

[Footnote 91:  Makeup (the first editions have "gigg").]

[Footnote 92:  Waller wrote "Instructions to a Painter" and "Board to a
Painter", and "Directions of Denham to a Painter."]

[Footnote 93:  The "Beaux of Farquhar' the Stratagem", 1707.]

[Footnote 94:  Bickerstaff acted the part of the Captain in Mrs.
The farce of Centlivre, "A Bickerstaff is Burying;  or, Jobs for the Upholders"