Matthew Pilkington

(1701-1774)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pilkington, Matthew, ca. 1700-1774 NRA: Pilkington Matthew (fl 1729-1737) Irish Clergyman and Poet DNB: Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774), satirist and art historian LBT ID: MaPilki1774 VIAF ID: 4804972 LOC ID: nr93031008	B/BAP: 1701 DIED: 1774-07-18
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Irish poet and acquaintance of Swift and Pope; his Gentleman's and Connoisseur's Dictionary of Painters (1770) became a standard work.
REFERENCES TO Matthew Pilkington: John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIX.