Owen Swiny citations

Owen Swiny , né en 1676, près d'Enniscorthy en Irlande, et mort le 2 octobre 1754, est un impresario de théâtre et d'opéra irlandais, et un négociant d'art, actif à Londres et à Venise. Wikipedia

✵ 1676 – 2. octobre 1754

Owen Swiny: Citations en anglais

“The fellow is whimsical and varys his prices every day; and he that has a mind to have any of his works must not seem too fond of it, for he' be ye worse treated for it both in price and painting too.”

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Owen Swiny

quoted by George A. Simonson in [Antonio Canal, The Burlington Magazine, January 1922, 40, 226, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924015109949;view=1up;seq=49, 36–41] (quote from pp. 39–40, taken from a letter by Owen Swiny to the 2nd Duke of Richmond, concerning Canaletto)