Joseph Sandell spent years gathering stories about painters, sculptors and engravers, and arranged them artist by artist. Washington Allston, Bartolozzi, Chantrey, Constable, Copley, Reynolds and many more appear in moments of rivalry, generosity, vanity and wit, such as the sculptor who returned from Rome in raptures over Bernini, then went to Westminster to look again at his own work.
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