| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - Страниц: 520
...grey hairs were very picturesque, contributed much .to give the new painter reputation, and he very soon bore away the chief business of London from every other painter, and introduced a better style than was then known. He died at Provence, whither he had retired for... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1827 - Страниц: 400
...respective piece. Several of these paintings are in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Richmond. Vanloo soon bore away the chief business of London from every other painter. His likenesses were very strong, but not favourable, and his heads coloured with force. He executed veiy little of the rest... | |
| Hugh James Rose - 1857 - Страниц: 864
...Waipole, by wnom he was introduced to the prince and princess of Wales, whose portraits he painted. Vanloo soon bore away the chief business of London from every...likenesses were very striking, though not often flattering, and his heads were coloured with force. His draperies and other accessories were usually painted by... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - Страниц: 532
...extremely picturesque, and contributed to give the new painter reputation." He continues— " Vanloo soon bore away the chief business of London from every other painter. His likenesses were very strong, but not favourable, and his heads coloured with force. He executed very little of the rest... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - Страниц: 606
...piece. Several of these 'paintings are in the possession of his grace the Duke of Richmond. Vanloo soon bore away the chief business of London from every other painter. His likenesses were very strong, but not favourable, and his heads coloured with force. He executed very little of the rest... | |
| Michael Bryan - 1904 - Страниц: 610
...he came to England, where, according to Walpole, his first works were the portraits of Colley Gibber and Owen MacSwinney, whose long silvery hair was extremely...to try the effect of the air of his native country, Brussels. Darmstadt. Provence, where he died at Aix in 1745. His first paintings are designed with... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1906 - Страниц: 354
...eclipses most of the illustrations of Society we have in England. Even John Baptist, as Walpole observes, soon bore away the chief business of London from every other painter, and had his visit not been so short (1737-1742) there can be no doubt that he would have acquired a... | |
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