Life
?1700-1784 [var. 1774 PI]; BA TCD, 1722; rector of Donabate and Portrahan
[Portrane]; compiled Dictionary of Painters (q.d.) containing 14,000
entries, many edns.; ceased publication in 1813 when Bryan commenced Dictionary
of Painters and Engravers; The Gentleman’s and Connoisseur’s
Dictionary of Painters (1770); d. 27 July.. DNB PI DIW.
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Notes
Avoid confusion with husband of Laetitia Pilkington. NOTE also Mary Pilkington,
Female Biography (1803) [See Centlivre, supra].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)