John Pettie, R.A., H.R.S.A.A. and C. Black, 1908 - 278 pages Appendixes: I. Portraits of John Pettie. II. Catalogue of pictures by John Pettie. |
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1893 Artist's sale A. P. Watt Aberdeen Art Gallery Andrew Ker armour Arthur Tooth background Bart Birmingham blue brilliant Briton Riviere C. E. Johnson canvas Cavalier character Charles Christie's Colin Hunter colour colourist Corporation Art Gallery costume David Murray drawing dress East Linton etching Exhibited at Glasgow Exhibited at R.A. face figure Finished sketch George Paul Chalmers Glasgow Institute Glasgow International Exhibition Hamish MacCunn hand illustration Jacobites James John Pettie keen know this Waterfly light London look MacWhirter Mappin Art Gallery McTaggart Messrs Millais Monk National Exhibition Edinburgh never Old Noll Orchar Orchardson original painted painter palette Pettie's picture Portrait head Portrait three-quarter length Present owner R.A. Winter Exhibition Replica rich Royal Academy scene School Scottish Academy Scottish National Exhibition Seymour Lucas Sheffield shows Sir Walter Sketching Club Society of Artists Strahan tints Water-colour Whitechapel Art Gallery Winn young
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Page 41 - In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new-slain Knight ; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. ' Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pick out his bonny blue een : Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.
Page 84 - I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 179 - This, then, is the plastic part of literature : to ' embody character, thought, or emotion in some act or attitude that shall be remarkably striking to the mind's eye.
Page 223 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Page 120 - It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish-white; and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used only to support and set off these warm colours; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colours will be sufficient.
Page 72 - Constable perceives in a landscape that the grass is wet, the meadows flat, and the boughs shady ; that is to say, about as much as, I suppose, might in general be apprehended, between them, by an intelligent fawn and a skylark. Turner perceives at a glance the whole sum of visible truth open to human intelligence.
Page 245 - Oh, that men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains : that we should, with joy, gayety, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
Page 41 - Wi ae lock o his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. "Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sail ken where he is gane; Oer his white banes when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair.
Page 180 - Great art is the expression of the mind of a great man, and mean art, that of the want of mind of a weak man. A foolish person builds foolishly, and a wise one, sensibly ; a virtuous one, beautifully ; and a vicious one, basely. If stone work is well put together, it means that a thoughtful man planned it, and a careful man cut it, and an honest man cemented it. If it has too much ornament, it means that its...
Page 57 - I have designed five blocks for Tennyson, some of which are still cutting and maiming. It is a thankless task. After a fortnight's work my block goes to the engraver, like Agag delicately, and is hewn to pieces before the Lord Harry.