 | Charlotte Eliza Sargeant - 1852 - 234 pages
...Drummond, ' West has conquered — he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated' — I retract my objections. — I foresee that this picture will not...getting the picture, but you shall make a copy for me.' " On the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds, West 1 was elected to the President's chair of the Royal Academy.... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1853 - 336 pages
...Drummond, " West has conquered ; he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated ; I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only...getting the picture ; but you shall make a copy for me." MICHAEL ANGELO. Michael Angelo was descended from the noble family of Canosa. From his earliest infancy,... | |
 | Manchester art treasures exhib - 1857 - 138 pages
...West has conquered ; he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated : I retract my observations. I foresee that this picture will not only become one...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." Barry, less amenable to reason than Eeynolds, unluckily, could not be brought to see that he was wrong... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 1454 pages
...manliness. " West has conquered ; he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated ; I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." The picture did become one of the most popular, and did occasion a revolution in art, the good effects... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1860 - 404 pages
...accompanied him, " West has conquered ; he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated ; I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." Being now fully in favour with the public, and enjoying the royal patronage without reserve, the painter... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 pages
...treated, and I foresee that this picture will not only become highly popular, but will be the cause of a revolution in art." " I wish," said the King, " that I had known all this before, for the objections made have been the means of Lord Grosvenor's getting the picture. But you shall make a copy... | |
 | Ralph Nicholson Wornum - 1864 - 674 pages
...Drummond, ' West has conquered — he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated : I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art.' "' West has, however, let the General die in his stock, which is contrary to probability, and it causes... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1865 - 758 pages
...Drummond, ' West has conquered ; he has treated the subject as it ought to be treated. I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only...a revolution in art.' " " I wish," said the King, when West told him the story, " that I had known all this before, for the objection has been the means... | |
 | 1866 - 582 pages
...work was finished Reynolds acknowledged his error. ' West,' he said, ' has conquered : I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art.' Reynolds had been governed by the associations he contracted at Rome, and he was slow to discover that... | |
 | 1866 - 604 pages
...work was finished Reynolds acknowledged his error. ' West,' he said, ' has conquered : I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art.' Reynolds had been governed by the associations he contracted at Rome, and he was slow to discover that... | |
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West has conquered ; he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated ; I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only become one of the most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art. 
