 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1876 - 508 pages
...justice of the popular verdict in favor 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... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1876 - 524 pages
...justice of the popular verdict in favor 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... | |
 | 1926 - 426 pages
...treated the subject as it ought to be treated." "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 of Lord Grosvenor getting the picture; but you shall make a copy for me." And so he did, and another for General... | |
 | John Diprose - 1878 - 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...will occasion a revolution in art." " I wish," said king George the Third, to whom West related the conversation, " that I had known all this before, for... | |
 | John Sherer - 1879 - 322 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.' " Here West certainly had on his side, not only the most just and natural view, but the best of the... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1884 - 652 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... | |
 | 1886 - 848 pages
...it, and at length said, " West was right. He has treated the subject as it ought to be treated, and this picture will not only become one of the most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." The engraving of this picture by Woollett is of such value that the present writer once saw an early... | |
 | Deristhe Levinte Hoyt - 1890 - 238 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...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art.' " West was patronized by George III., from whom he received a salary for thirty-three years. He was... | |
 | Sir Claude Phillips - 1894 - 474 pages
...said : — " 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...most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art." It undoubtedly was a revolution, so far as the English art of the moment was concerned, and nothing... | |
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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. 
