The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 |
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... merit . Her beauty and accomplishments , from her earliest years , were admired in the gay and splendid court of Francis . Many of the French writers , and the amusing Brantôme among the rest , have mangled her fair fame in the most ...
... merit . Her beauty and accomplishments , from her earliest years , were admired in the gay and splendid court of Francis . Many of the French writers , and the amusing Brantôme among the rest , have mangled her fair fame in the most ...
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... merit of his modest rival , exerted upon all occasions his influence to check him in his career , and frequently endeavoured to injure his reputation . Nevertheless , the fame of Le Brun daily increased , and Louis XIV . who had ...
... merit of his modest rival , exerted upon all occasions his influence to check him in his career , and frequently endeavoured to injure his reputation . Nevertheless , the fame of Le Brun daily increased , and Louis XIV . who had ...
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... merits of these distinguished painters . " Lodovico Caracci , far from subscribing to a master's dictates , or implicit imitation of former styles , was the sworn pupil of nature . To a modest , but dignified , de- sign , to a ...
... merits of these distinguished painters . " Lodovico Caracci , far from subscribing to a master's dictates , or implicit imitation of former styles , was the sworn pupil of nature . To a modest , but dignified , de- sign , to a ...
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... merit of com- position . Of our former poets the greatest dramatist wrote without rule , conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled and never deserted him . As Dryden had studied with great diligence the art of ...
... merit of com- position . Of our former poets the greatest dramatist wrote without rule , conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled and never deserted him . As Dryden had studied with great diligence the art of ...
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... merit ever came out of his hands . Magdalen , and the Christ with Angels , are admirable pro- ductions ; and the portraits of Desjardins , Rigaud , Dilgerus , and that of Champagne , in particular , are un- commonly beautiful ; and ...
... merit ever came out of his hands . Magdalen , and the Christ with Angels , are admirable pro- ductions ; and the portraits of Desjardins , Rigaud , Dilgerus , and that of Champagne , in particular , are un- commonly beautiful ; and ...
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