Excerpt from John Laporte, Landscape Painter and Etcher, Born 1761, Died 1839, P. La Cave, Landscape PainterFrench sculptors in Dublin Lesao, a portrait painter, who went to Dublin in 1730, and others.see later, for Irish views can hardly be counted as an additional reason for suggesting an Irish origin. Several of his contemporaries, of course, such as Paul Sandby and William Pars, also exhibited Irish landscapes without having any natural connection with Ireland.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.