Daniel Webb

Daniel Webb (1718/19 – 2 August 1798) was an Irish writer on aesthetics whose works enjoyed a considerable vogue for a time. Winkelmann later accused him of having plagiarised the work from the unpublished manuscript of Mengs' treatise Gedanken über die Schönheit.

In later life he lived mainly at Bath. He was married twice, first, to Jane Lloyd and, later to Elizabeth Creed. He died, leaving no children, on 2 August 1798.

Works An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting (London 1760; 4th edition 1777;

These five works were republished in one volume in 1802 by Thomas Winstanley under the title of Miscellanies. as Selections from M. Pauw, with Additions by Daniel Webb, Esq..The extracts were randomly ordered, with the additional comments printed in italics to differentiate them from Pauw's text.