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Excerpt from Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 2: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: And More Particularly of Distinguished Natives of Great Britain and Ireland
J ervas, Guanass, a painter, who studied under Kneller. He was a native of Ireland, and acquired a reputation which he did not merit, through his intimacy with Pope, who ?attered him egregiously. He published a translation of Don Quixote, to which Warburton contributed an Essay on the Origin of Romance and Chivalry. Born about 1675; died 2 Nov., 1739.
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