1840 A General Dictionary of Painters Containing Memoirs of the Lives and Works of the Most Eminent Professors of the Art of Painting, from its Revival by Cimabue, in the Year 1250, to the Present Time.

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New edition, revised and extended by Allan Cunningham. Including an introduction on modern painting. Matthew Pilkington (1701-1774) was the author of a standard text on painters, what would become known as Pilkington's Dictionary. His work was widely published through many editions, being renamed A Dictionary of Painters in the 1805 and 1810 versions of Henry Fuseli, before becoming commonly known in the nineteenth century as Pilkington's Dictionary.