Excerpt from A Catalogue of a Choice Collection of British Portraits by the Most Eminent English Artists, &C: As Pafs, Faithorne, Hollar, Gaywood, Loggan, White, Vertue, Houbracken, Bartolozzi, Becket, Smith, Faber, Mac Ardell, &C. &C. &C About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.