The Dictionary of national biography Volume 8 Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... some doubt on the accepted statement that he went to Amsterdam and resided there for the greater part of his life. He is stated to have died there in 1750at an advanced age, but another account gays that he died at Cologne in 1760. Immerzeel"s Hollandsche en Vlaamscbe Konst-schilders; Kramm"s Hollandsche en Vlaainsche Kunstenaars; Dcscamp"s Vies des Peintres, iii. 352; Veitue"s MSS. (Brit. Mus. AdditMSS. 23068, &c.); Scubert"s Allgemeinrs Kiinstler-Lexikon; Chaloner Smith"s British Mezzotinto Portraits. L. C. GRIFFIN, B. (fl. 1590), poet, probably related to the Griffins of Dingley, Northamptonshire, has been identified with a Bartholo mew Griffin of Coventrv, who was buried on 15 Dec. 1602 at Holy Trinity in that town. From his will (P.C.C., 87, Bolein), proved on 13 May 1603 by his widow Kathcrine, it appears that Bartholomew Griffin left a son called Rice, a frequent familj name in the Griffins of Dingley. Griffin wrote a series of sixty-two charming sonnets entitled "Fidessa, more chaste than kinde," 8vo, London, 1596, of which only three copies are at present known, those in the Bodleian, Huth, and Lamport libraries. The dedication to William Essex of Lamborne, Berkshire, is followed by an epistle to the gentlemen of the Inns of Court, from which it might be inferred that Griffin himself belonged to an Inn, but no trace of him can be found in the registers. He was more probably an attorney, as he styles himself "gentleman" only. In the same epistle he mentions an unfinished pastoral, which he intended, "for varietie sake," to have appended to "Fidessa," but was obliged to postpone it until the next term. No trace of it has been found (Cat. of Huth Library, ii. 630). The third sonnet in " Fidessa," commencing " Venus and yong Adonis sitting by her,... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Dictionary of national biography Volume 8 (Stephen)