Excerpt from Biographical Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, and Architects, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Vol. 1 of 2: Interspersed With Original Anecdotes
I have done this for the purpose of compiling a concise book of reference, that should condense into a small compass all the best parts of many voluminous works; and with the ambition of rendering it so faithful and complete, as to merit a corner in the libraries of public institutions, as well as in private collections.
To effect this object, I have spared no pains and considerable pains were requisite, nor have I hastily obtruded my labours on the public (first published in 1810), having been employed many years in collecting the materials. I declare it to be a sincere work; and, if it be little else, that I hope is something. Of the literary execution I would speak humbly; the criticisms I would refer, with proper deference, to real judges; but as to the truth of the biographies, and the unprejudiced selection of all other materials, I may and do speak with that confidence which becomes every man who feels his own honesty and independence.
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