Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Kt. ...H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 - 586 pages |
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Page 433 - ... fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere.
Page 397 - Elgin, that he was willing to propose to parliament to purchase it for 30,000/. provided Lord Elgin should make out, to the satisfaction of a committee of the house of commons, that he had expended so much in, 'acquiring and transporting it. Lord Elgin declined this proposal...
Page 241 - Redeemed her life with half the loss of mine. Like a rich conquest, in one hand I bore her, And with the other dashed the saucy waves, That thronged and pressed to rob me of my prize.
Page 448 - ... had their origin in nature only; and the sensibility and virtues of his mind. Like the greatest of modern painters, he delighted to trace from the actions of familiar life the lines of sentiment and passion; and...
Page 258 - Mr. Lawrence did not dine with me; his dinner was served in his own room. After dinner, he came down to the room where I and my ladies generally sat in an evening.
Page 448 - ... the sensibility and virtues of his mind. Like the greatest of modern painters, he delighted to trace from the actions of familiar life, the lines of sentiment and passion ; and from the populous haunts and momentary peacefulness of poverty and want, to form his inimitable groups of childhood, and maternal tenderness, with those nobler compositions from holy writ — as beneficent in their motive, as they were novel in design — which open new sources of invention from its simplest texts, and...
Page 447 - His purity of taste led him in early life to the study of the noblest relics of antiquity, and a mind, though not then of classical education, of classic bias, urged him to the perusal of the best translations of the Greek philosophers and poets ; till it became deeply imbued with those simple and grand sentiments which distinguished the productions of that favoured people.
Page 306 - You will be sorry to hear that my most powerful competitor — he whom, only to my friends, I have acknowledged as my rival, is, I fear, sinking into the grave ; — I mean of course, Hoppner. He has always been afflicted with bilious and liver complaints, and to these must be greatly attributed the irritation of his mind ; and now they have ended in a confirmed dropsy. But though I think he cannot recover, I do not wish that his last illness should appear to be reported by me.
Page 83 - I shall now say what does not proceed from vanity; nor is it an impulse of the moment; but what from my judgment I can warrant. Though Mr. Prince Hoare's studies have been great, my paintings are better than any I have seen from his pencil. To any but my own family I certainly should not say this ; but, excepting Sir Joshua, for the painting of a head, I would risk my reputation with any painter in London.
Page 304 - The death of Hoppner leaves me, it is true, without a rival, and this has been acknowledged to me by the ablest of my present competitors ; but I already find one small misfortune attending it, viz. that I have no sharer in the watchful jealousy, I will not say, hatred, that follows the situation.