 | 1826 - 602 pages
...company." I mentioned that I thought Sir Joshua more like Rembrandt than like either Titian or Vandyke : he enveloped objects in the same brilliant haze of...that made whatever he touched his own. In spite of his deficiency in drawing, and his want of academic rules and proper education, you see this breaking... | |
 | James Northcote, William Hazlitt - 1830 - 344 pages
...company." I mentioned that I thought Sir Joshua more like Rembrandt than like either Titian or Vandyke : he enveloped objects in the same brilliant haze of...that made whatever he touched his own. In spite of his deficiency in drawing, and his want of academic rules and a proper education, you see this breaking... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 292 pages
...Reynolds with Vandyke and Titian, I should say that Vandyke's portraits are like pictures — very perfect ones, no doubt ; Sir Joshua's like the reflection...that made whatever he touched his own. In spite of his deficiency in drawing, and his want of academic rules and a proper education, you see this breaking... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1859 - 284 pages
...Titian, I should say that Vandyke's portraits are like pictures — very perfect ones, no doubt ; Sit Joshua's like the reflection in a looking-glass ;...that made whatever he touched his own. In spite of his deficiency in drawing, and his want of academic rules and a proper education, you see this breaking... | |
 | 1868 - 284 pages
...picture, nor a man : and I almost involuntarily turn back to ascertain that it is not some one behind line reflected in the glass." When Hazlitt observed that...that made whatever he touched his own. In spite of his deficiency in drawing, and his want of academic rules and a proper education, you see this breaking... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 592 pages
...company." I mentioned that I thought Sir Joshua more like Eembrandt than like either Titian or Vandyke : he enveloped objects in the same brilliant haze of...that made whatever he touched his own. In spite of his deficiency in drawing and his want of academic rules and a proper education, you see this breaking... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 582 pages
...company." I mentioned that I thought Sir Joshua more like Rembrandt than like either Titian or Vandyke : he enveloped objects in the same brilliant haze of...that made whatever he touched his own. In spite of his deficiency in drawing and his want of academic rules and a proper education, you see this breaking... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 548 pages
...company.' I mentioned that I thought Sir Joshua more like Rembrandt than like either Titian or Vandyke : he enveloped objects in the same brilliant haze of...that made whatever he touched his own. In spite of his deficiency in drawing, and his want of academic rules and a proper education, you see this breaking... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 544 pages
...company.' I mentioned that I thought Sir Joshua more like Rembrandt than like either Titian or Vandyke : he enveloped objects in the same brilliant haze of...mental conception. — ' Yes,' he said ; ' but though 344 Sir Joshua borrowed a great deal, he drew largely from himself: or rather, it was a strong and... | |
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but though Sir Joshua borrowed a great deal, he drew largely from himself; or rather, it was a strong and peculiar feeling of nature working in him and forcing its way out in spite of all impediments, and that made whatever he touched his own. In spite... 