The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 3J. & J. Harper, 1835 |
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... fame and fortune . He felt the generous kindness of Evelyn , and made him a pre- sent of his own bust in wood , carved , it is said , with singular freedom ; this work has not survived those dangers to which the nature of the material ...
... fame and fortune . He felt the generous kindness of Evelyn , and made him a pre- sent of his own bust in wood , carved , it is said , with singular freedom ; this work has not survived those dangers to which the nature of the material ...
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... fame which belongs to those productions . Of his skill of hand there can be no doubt , nor of the respect which his works at Chats- worth obtained for his memory . Witness the sorry verses on his tomb : - " Watson is gone , whose ...
... fame which belongs to those productions . Of his skill of hand there can be no doubt , nor of the respect which his works at Chats- worth obtained for his memory . Witness the sorry verses on his tomb : - " Watson is gone , whose ...
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... fame of the works thus produced , any more than of di- viding the glory of St. Paul's between Sir Christo- pher Wren and his mason . There can be no doubt that Gibbons was the presiding artist in the embel- lishments of that princely ...
... fame of the works thus produced , any more than of di- viding the glory of St. Paul's between Sir Christo- pher Wren and his mason . There can be no doubt that Gibbons was the presiding artist in the embel- lishments of that princely ...
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... fame , that the fire of Chiswick consumed some of the fairest of his works . While stringing together these unconnected things , we may state that at Houghton two chimneys are adorned by Gibbons's foliage ; that at Southwick , in ...
... fame , that the fire of Chiswick consumed some of the fairest of his works . While stringing together these unconnected things , we may state that at Houghton two chimneys are adorned by Gibbons's foliage ; that at Southwick , in ...
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... fame could tempt from Italy . To make a coarse copy of a fine original seems to have been all that art aspired to accomplish in Roman Britain . When the sinking empire withdrew its legions , something of the Roman attachment to ...
... fame could tempt from Italy . To make a coarse copy of a fine original seems to have been all that art aspired to accomplish in Roman Britain . When the sinking empire withdrew its legions , something of the Roman attachment to ...
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