Jonathan Richardson the elder

(1667-1745)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745 DNB: Richardson, Jonathan, the elder (1667-1745), portrait painter and writer LBT ID: JoRicha1745 VIAF ID: 34528928 LOC ID: n50044694	B/BAP: 1667-01-12 DIED: 1745-05-28
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English painter and writer on art; the friend of Matthew Prior and Alexander Pope; with his son he published Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost (1734).
REFERENCES TO Jonathan Richardson the elder: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1819 Found 1: ¶ n1 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XIV. 1816 Found 2: ¶ 35 ¶ 42