Note 1 — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1]
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William Defesch, a German, and some time chapel-master at Antwerp, was in his time a respectable professor on the violin, and leader of the band for several seasons at Marybone-gardens. His head was engraved as a frontispiece to some musical compositions published by him; and his name is to be found on many songs and ballads to which he set the tunes for Vauxhall and Marybone-gardens. He died, soon after the year 1750, at the age of 70.
The following lines were written under a picture of Defesch, painted by Soldi, 1751.
Thou honor'st verse, and verse must lend her wing, To honor thee, the priest of Phœbus' quire, That tun'st her happiest lines in hymn or song. Milton.
Defesch was the patriotic Mr. Hollis's music-master.