The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 4Harper, 1834 |
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 4 Allan Cunningham Повний перегляд - 1834 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 4 Allan Cunningham Повний перегляд - 1834 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 4 Allan Cunningham Повний перегляд - 1834 |
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Сторінка 153 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Сторінка 65 - ... that picture a future rival. Let any one look at the portraits painted by Romney at that time, and see whether there was not sufficient ground for jealousy on the part of Reynolds. The principle laid down by Sir Joshua establishes the truth of my observations, ' that it is impossible for two painters in the same department of the art to continue long in friendship with each other.' Mortimer, be it remembered,, was no portrait painter, and also dedicated his etchings to the President. I may also...
Сторінка 257 - I have never known, in my own time, the early death of talent so promising, and so rapidly and obviously improving. If I may judge from the later direction of his studies, and from remembrance of a morning's conversation, his mind seemed expanding in every way, and ripening into full maturity of taste and elevated judgment, with that generous ambition which makes confinement to lesser departments in the art painfully irksome and annoying.
Сторінка 121 - ... conceived in an elevated spirit of dignity and beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various — the male were decided and grand ; the female, lovely : his figures resembled the antique — the limbs were elegant and finely formed : his drapery was well understood : either forming the figure into a mass with one or two deep folds only, or.
Сторінка 152 - The painter complied— the likeness was introduced — and the husband looked with a glance of satisfaction on his three spouses: not so the lady; she remonstrated; never was such a thing heard of — out her predecessors must go. The artist painted them out accordingly ; and had to bring an action at law to obtain payment for the portraits which he had obliterated.
Сторінка 33 - London, for some time, about two years ago ; has been since at home painting here like a Raphael — sets out for the seat of the beast, beyond the Alps, within a month hence — to be away about two years. I'm sweer to part with him, but canna stem the current which flows from the advice of his patrons and his own inclination.
Сторінка 41 - There was Ramsay, of whom Sir Joshua used to say, that he was the most sensible among all the painters of his time, but he has left little to show it. His manner was dry and timid. He stopped short in the middle of his work, because he knew exactly how much it wanted. Now and then we find tints and sketches, which show what he might have been if his hand had been equal to his conceptions. I have seen a picture of his of the Queen soon after she was married ; a profile, and slightly done, but it was...
Сторінка 231 - ... of artists. He paid one hundred guineas yearly as a pupil ; and for this Harlow " was to have free access to Sir Thomas's house at nine o'clock in the morning, with leave to copy his pictures till four o'clock in the afternoon, but to receive no instruction of any kind.
Сторінка 101 - The pictures I have begun are Joan of Arc, a Magdalen, and a Bacchante for the Prince of Wales ; and another I am to begin as a companion to the Bacchante. I am also to paint a picture of her as Constance for the Shakespeare Gallery.
Сторінка 253 - You must recollect, however, that I know nothing of painting ; and that I detest it, unless it reminds me of something I have seen, or think it possible to see...