"Words paint to the imagination but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way."
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Jonathan Richardson
1665 – 1745
Jonathan Richardson (1665 – 1745), sometimes called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son, was an English artist, collector of drawings, and writer on art, working almost entirely as a portrait-painter in London
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