 | 1866 - 586 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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1867 - 660 pages
...anticipated in the purchase of the picture when, at last, Reynolds declared : " West has conquered. I foresee that this picture will not only become one...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." His color has been objected to as too exclusively a "reddish brown ;" and, while praised for freedom... | |
 | Art - 1868 - 220 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...of the most popular, but will occasion a revolution iu art." " I wish," said king George the Third, to whom West related the conversation, " that I had... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 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... | |
 | National gallery - 1869 - 208 pages
...the time, "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 v/ill occasion a revolution in art." West died at his house in Newman-street, March 11, 1820, in his... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1871 - 694 pages
...inauguration of a new era in British art, and Sir Joshua Reynolds was obliged to declare, "West has conquered. I foresee that this picture will not only become one...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." This frank avowal was as honorable to Sir Joshua as to West. "West painted for George the Third a number... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1872 - 340 pages
...rising, said, ' 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 had now obtained the personal confidence of the king, and the favour of the public. His commissions... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1872 - 682 pages
...of a new era in British art, and Sir Joshua Reynolds was obliged to declar'e, " West has conquered. I foresee that this picture will not only become one...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." This frank avowal was as honorable to Sir Joshua as to West. "West painted for George the Third a number... | |
 | 1876 - 442 pages
...justice of the popular verdict in favour of the new style, and to declare that "West has conquered. I foresee that this picture will not only become one...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." West was a sensible, kindly man, of. pure life and lofty aims. His ambition, unhappily, was far beyond... | |
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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. 
