Yet he never did anything more on the subject.

I was there three months, gaining nothing in my art and without a single commission.

Mr.Breed, of Liverpool, then came to Bristol.

He took two landscapes which I had been amusing myself with (for I can say nothing more of them) at ten guineas each.

I painted two more landscapes which are unsold.
"Mr.Visscher, a man worth about a hundred thousand pounds, and whose annual expenses, with a large family of seven children, are not one thousand, had a little frame for which he repeatedly desired me to paint a picture.