 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...him exceedingly. His portraits alone, from the nobleness and simplicity of. character which he always gave them, will entitle him to the greatest respect,...powers of florid eloquence, to, debauch the young and unexperienced ; and have, without doubt, been the cause of turning off the attention of the connoisseur... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...him exceedingly. His portraits alone, from the nobleness and simplicity of character which he always gave them, will entitle him to the greatest respect,...powers of florid eloquence, to debauch the young and unexperienced ; and have, without doubt, been the cause of turning off the attention of the connoisseur... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 pages
...him exceedingly. His portraits alone, from the nobleness and simplicity of character which he always gave them, will entitle him to the greatest respect,...with the seducing qualities of the two former, that 1 could wish to caution you against being too much captivated. These are the persons who may be said... | |
 | A. Hume - 1829 - 264 pages
...portraits alone, for the nobleness and simpli" city of character, which he always gave them, " will intitle him to the greatest respect, as he " undoubtedly stands in the first rank in this " branch of art." Another illustration of Sir Joshua's, in a note on the following lines of Fresnoy, is too interesting... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...nobleness and simplicity of character which he gave them, will entitle him to the greatest respect, as be undoubtedly stands in the first rank in this branch of the art." — Discourse iv. Again, " It is to Titian we must turn our eye, to find excellence with regard to... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - 318 pages
...him exceedingly. His portraits alone, from the nobleness and simplicity of character which he always gave them, will entitle him to the greatest respect,...stands in the first rank in this branch of the art. their unaffected simplicity and severity of design, such as his Pesaro Family, or the Senator Cornaro... | |
 | Ralph Nicholson Wornum - 1847 - 520 pages
...or he could not have imputed to the whole school defects which he had observed only in one master. greatest respect, as he undoubtedly stands in the first rank in this branch of art. It is not with Titian, but with the seducing qualities of the two former, that I could wish to... | |
 | Henry T. Cooke and Son - 1851 - 294 pages
...perfect painter. His portraits alone, from the nobleness and simplicity of character which he always gave them, will entitle him to the greatest respect,...stands in the first rank in this branch of the art." — (j. R.) Centre — Sketch of a Horse, by Rubens. Below — Portraits of Maximilian I, and his Sister,... | |
 | Henry T. Cooke - 1851 - 306 pages
...perfect painter. His portraits alone, from the nobleness and simplicity of character which he always gave them, will entitle him to the greatest respect,...undoubtedly stands in the first rank in this branch of the art."—(j. E.) Centre—Sketch of a Horse, by Eubens. chiefly confined to the court of Saxony, and... | |
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... though his style is not so pure as that of many other of the Italian schools, yet there is a sort of senatorial dignity about him, which, however awkward in his imitators, seems to become him exceedingly. His portraits alone, from the nobleness and... 
