The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 1Harper, 1846 |
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... painter . There is extant , in Dugdale , a curious example of the character of the times , and a scale by which we can measure the public admiration of art . It is a contract between the Earl of Warwick and John Rag , citizen and tailor ...
... painter . There is extant , in Dugdale , a curious example of the character of the times , and a scale by which we can measure the public admiration of art . It is a contract between the Earl of Warwick and John Rag , citizen and tailor ...
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... painter added greatly to the value of those volumes . The illustration of missals , and of books of chivalry and romance , became a favourite pursuit with the nobles and a lucrative employment to artists . Illustrations on this scale ...
... painter added greatly to the value of those volumes . The illustration of missals , and of books of chivalry and romance , became a favourite pursuit with the nobles and a lucrative employment to artists . Illustrations on this scale ...
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... painter the first of mankind . The silenced gods of the ancients infested then , and long after , both our literature and our conversation - and the accom- plished Evelyn was pleased to see those divinities imbodied of whom he had read ...
... painter the first of mankind . The silenced gods of the ancients infested then , and long after , both our literature and our conversation - and the accom- plished Evelyn was pleased to see those divinities imbodied of whom he had read ...
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... painters in their trains , and he envied not a little the unattainable brilliancy of their courts . Vanity and ... painter of eminence who came to England , and with him the art in which genius shines may be said to have commenced ...
... painters in their trains , and he envied not a little the unattainable brilliancy of their courts . Vanity and ... painter of eminence who came to England , and with him the art in which genius shines may be said to have commenced ...
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... painter's claim to fidelity in his other likenesses : he was no habitual flatterer , or Henry would not have given implicit faith to him . On another occa- sion Holbein went to Flanders to draw the picture of the dutchess - dowager of ...
... painter's claim to fidelity in his other likenesses : he was no habitual flatterer , or Henry would not have given implicit faith to him . On another occa- sion Holbein went to Flanders to draw the picture of the dutchess - dowager of ...
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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