...interesting to a few — that in the hands of Reynolds it was " employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Reynolds himself, however, without forgetting these important prerogatives, evidently took a more extended...

...interesting to a few — that in the hands of Reynolds it was " employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Reynolds himself, however, without forgetting these important prerogatives, evidently took a more extended...

...pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life : what is greatest is...absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.'* Dr. Johnson says nothmg as to our alleged indifference for ' landscape ' and ' nature ;' these, indeed,...

...interesting to a few — that in the hands of Reynolds it was " employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Reynolds himself, however, without forgetting these important prerogatives, evidently took a more extended...

...interesting to a few—that in the hands of Reynolds it was " employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Reynolds himself, however, without forgetting these important prerogatives, evidently took a more extended...

...Johnson, who speaks of this department of the art as being " employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." The exercise of of this art, he goes on to observe, every man desires "for the sake of those whom he loves,...

...Johnson, who speaks of this department of the art as being " employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." The exercise of of this art, he goes on to observe, every man desires " for the sake of those whom he loves,...

...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Now any tolerable face-painter may fulfil the first conditions, whose pictures after two or three generations...

...pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is...which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the...

...pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subjects ; but it is in painting as in life: what is greatest is...absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." PORTRAIT PAINTING IN ENGLAND, WITH THE COMPARATIVE MERITS OF VANDYKE, REYNOLDS, AND LAWRENCE. PART...