James Northcote
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James Northcote RA (22 October 1746 – 13 July 1831) was an English painter.
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Quotes
[edit]- Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.
- Quoted by William Hazlitt in Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. (1830)