The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 5J. Murray, 1832 |
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... admiration of travellers . That the sculptures of the most splendid abbeys , and the paintings in the castles of the nobles , were alto- gether unworthy of being classed among finished works of art no one questions : yet , at the same ...
... admiration of travellers . That the sculptures of the most splendid abbeys , and the paintings in the castles of the nobles , were alto- gether unworthy of being classed among finished works of art no one questions : yet , at the same ...
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... suspected to be a copy from another work , it is not improbable that Henry , who was a lover of art and a collector , may have sat to his countryman . general admiration , and , it would appear , con- 20 THE BRITISH PAINTERS .
... suspected to be a copy from another work , it is not improbable that Henry , who was a lover of art and a collector , may have sat to his countryman . general admiration , and , it would appear , con- 20 THE BRITISH PAINTERS .
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... admiration of the good painting , and re- marked the likeness to some of those they were done for . This was a lucky circumstance for Jamesone , for the King , while at Edinburgh , sat for a full length picture ; and having heard that ...
... admiration of the good painting , and re- marked the likeness to some of those they were done for . This was a lucky circumstance for Jamesone , for the King , while at Edinburgh , sat for a full length picture ; and having heard that ...
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... admiration of the style of the great Italian masters brought upon him the wrath of Hogarth ; and his now visible success in life , the satire of Churchill . The former desired to pun him down under the name of Ram's eye ; and , what was ...
... admiration of the style of the great Italian masters brought upon him the wrath of Hogarth ; and his now visible success in life , the satire of Churchill . The former desired to pun him down under the name of Ram's eye ; and , what was ...
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... admired him as an artist ; the wind of court favour , therefore , filled Ramsay's sails , and he obtained distinction as the first , where he at best deserved notice as the second . But this was not all ; Shakelton , portrait - painter ...
... admired him as an artist ; the wind of court favour , therefore , filled Ramsay's sails , and he obtained distinction as the first , where he at best deserved notice as the second . But this was not all ; Shakelton , portrait - painter ...
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Page 180 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 113 - Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most women have no characters at all.
Page 309 - I have never known, in my own time, the early death of talent so promising, and so rapidly and obviously improving. If I may judge from the later direction of his studies, and from remembrance of a morning's conversation, his mind seemed expanding in every way, and ripening into full maturity of taste and elevated judgment, with that generous ambition which makes confinement to lesser departments in the art painfully irksome and annoying.
Page 35 - London for some time, about two years ago ; has been since at home painting here like a Raphael; sets out for the seat of the beast beyond the Alps, within a month hence ; to be away about two years. I'm sweer to part with him, but canna stem the current, which flows from the advice of his patrons and his own inclination.
Page 285 - And then pointed out by what means he might improve it in this particular. Accordingly, Harlow introduced the two boys who are taking up the cushion.
Page 139 - His cartoons, some of which have unfortunately perished, were examples of the sublime and terrible : at that time perfectly new in English art. As Romney was gifted with peculiar powers for historical and ideal painting, so his heart and soul were engaged in the pursuit of it, whenever he could extricate himself from the importunate business of portrait painting. It was his delight by day, and study by night : and for this his food and rest were often neglected.
Page 51 - Your marchesite, your tutie, your magnesia, Your toad, your crow, your dragon, and your panther; Your sun, your moon, your firmament, your adrop, Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit...
Page 140 - ... the background is made the simplest possible, rejecting all unnecessary episode and trivial ornament, either of secondary groups or architectural sub.division. In his compositions, the beholder was forcibly struck by the sentiment at the first glance; the gradations and varieties of which he traced through several characters, all conceived in an elevated spirit of dignity and beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various...
Page 220 - He spoke a few words to me in his usual brief and kindly way — evidently to put me into an agreeable mood ; and then, having placed me in a chair on a platform at the end of his painting-room, in the posture required, set up his easel beside me with the canvas ready to receive the colour. When he saw all was right...
Page 78 - Upon this unfortunate group when Garrick had fixed his lynx's eyes, he began to put himself into the attitude of the gentleman, and turning to Mr. Romney — 'Upon my word, sir...