The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 1Harper, 1846 |
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... pencil are not always willing or able to hold the pen , and artists of literary attainments are either more profitably employed , or prudent enough to avoid an undertaking , where there is more certainty of censure than of praise . I ...
... pencil are not always willing or able to hold the pen , and artists of literary attainments are either more profitably employed , or prudent enough to avoid an undertaking , where there is more certainty of censure than of praise . I ...
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... pencil to imbody the conceptions of genius . The artist has to seek for all this in the accumulated mass of professional knowledge which time has gathered for his instruction : and with his best wisdom , and his happiest fortune , he ...
... pencil to imbody the conceptions of genius . The artist has to seek for all this in the accumulated mass of professional knowledge which time has gathered for his instruction : and with his best wisdom , and his happiest fortune , he ...
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... pencil , with a taste improved and a mind enlarged , and great wealth - whoever appeared willing to work in her spirit , she was ready to wel- come and reward him . The genius of Holbein was too literal and mechanical for this . He was ...
... pencil , with a taste improved and a mind enlarged , and great wealth - whoever appeared willing to work in her spirit , she was ready to wel- come and reward him . The genius of Holbein was too literal and mechanical for this . He was ...
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... pencil . The younger Oliver too made himself known about this period by numerous miniature portraits of the chief persons about court . This branch of art was encouraged by the prevailing fashion of wearing miniatures richly set in gold ...
... pencil . The younger Oliver too made himself known about this period by numerous miniature portraits of the chief persons about court . This branch of art was encouraged by the prevailing fashion of wearing miniatures richly set in gold ...
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... pencil we owe many por- traits of the eminent persons who embellished or embroiled the most unfortunate of English reigns . " Vandyke's pictures , " observes Barry , " are evi- dently painted at once , with sometimes a little re ...
... pencil we owe many por- traits of the eminent persons who embellished or embroiled the most unfortunate of English reigns . " Vandyke's pictures , " observes Barry , " are evi- dently painted at once , with sometimes a little re ...
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Academy admiration afterward Allan Ramsay appeared artist beauty Burke character church colouring composition copy Correggio court drawing elegance eminent employed England engraving excellence exhibition fame favourite feeling figures folly fortune friends Gainsborough gallery Garrick genius grace guineas hand happy Harlot's Progress Hogarth honour humour imagination John Gonson Johnson Kate Hackabout kind king Kneller labour ladies landscape Line of Beauty living London look Lord loved manner masters merit mind nature never Nichols noble North Briton Northcote observed obtained painted painter Paul Veronese pencil person poet portrait portrait-painting prints productions purchased racter Rake's Progress Raphael reputation Reynolds Rome royal Rubens satire says scene seems Sigismunda Sir Joshua Sir Richard Grosvenor sketches skill spirit splendour style talents taste Thicknesse thing Thornhill thought tion Titian truth ture Vandyke vanity Walpole Wilkes William Hogarth Wilson wish worthy