The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Band 5J. Murray, 1832 |
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... Sketches , " containing , " according to the words of his will , " two hun- dred leaves of parchment of excellent write adorned with divers historys of our Saviour cu- riously limned , " valued at two hundred pounds , and a picture of ...
... Sketches , " containing , " according to the words of his will , " two hun- dred leaves of parchment of excellent write adorned with divers historys of our Saviour cu- riously limned , " valued at two hundred pounds , and a picture of ...
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... sketch at twelve : Ed- wards , in his anecdotes , says he was " rather self - taught . " The first notice we have of him is in a letter from his father to Smibert the painter , in 1736 ; when the artist was twenty- three years old ...
... sketch at twelve : Ed- wards , in his anecdotes , says he was " rather self - taught . " The first notice we have of him is in a letter from his father to Smibert the painter , in 1736 ; when the artist was twenty- three years old ...
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... 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 mar- ried ; a profile , and slightly done , but it was a - paragon of elegance ...
... 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 mar- ried ; a profile , and slightly done , but it was a - paragon of elegance ...
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... sketching a melodrama , " representing , " says his son , " the progress of an alchemist in quest of the philosopher's stone . The sanguine expect ations of the philosopher were to have been heightened in every scene ; but as he ...
... sketching a melodrama , " representing , " says his son , " the progress of an alchemist in quest of the philosopher's stone . The sanguine expect ations of the philosopher were to have been heightened in every scene ; but as he ...
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... sketching them in various attitudes : while the artist's son states , that Da Vinci's Treatise on Painting , illustrated by many fine engravings , was early in his hands . All these stories may be true : genius draws its materials from ...
... sketching them in various attitudes : while the artist's son states , that Da Vinci's Treatise on Painting , illustrated by many fine engravings , was early in his hands . All these stories may be true : genius draws its materials from ...
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Seite 180 - 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...
Seite 113 - Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most women have no characters at all.
Seite 309 - 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.
Seite 35 - 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.
Seite 285 - And then pointed out by what means he might improve it in this particular. Accordingly, Harlow introduced the two boys who are taking up the cushion.
Seite 139 - His cartoons, some of which have unfortunately perished, were examples of the sublime and terrible : at that time perfectly new in English art. As Romney was gifted with peculiar powers for historical and ideal painting, so his heart and soul were engaged in the pursuit of it, whenever he could extricate himself from the importunate business of portrait painting. It was his delight by day, and study by night : and for this his food and rest were often neglected.
Seite 51 - Your marchesite, your tutie, your magnesia, Your toad, your crow, your dragon, and your panther; Your sun, your moon, your firmament, your adrop, Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit...
Seite 140 - ... the background is made the simplest possible, rejecting all unnecessary episode and trivial ornament, either of secondary groups or architectural sub.division. In his compositions, the beholder was forcibly struck by the sentiment at the first glance; the gradations and varieties of which he traced through several characters, all conceived in an elevated spirit of dignity and beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various...
Seite 220 - He spoke a few words to me in his usual brief and kindly way — evidently to put me into an agreeable mood ; and then, having placed me in a chair on a platform at the end of his painting-room, in the posture required, set up his easel beside me with the canvas ready to receive the colour. When he saw all was right...
Seite 78 - Upon this unfortunate group when Garrick had fixed his lynx's eyes, he began to put himself into the attitude of the gentleman, and turning to Mr. Romney — 'Upon my word, sir...