The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 3J. & J. Harper, 1835 |
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... seems most true , as Gibbons is an English name , and Grinling probably Dutch . " Tradition , while it claims him for a Lon- doner , is silent concerning his foreign parentage ; his maternal descent , like that of Sir Joshua Rey- nolds ...
... seems most true , as Gibbons is an English name , and Grinling probably Dutch . " Tradition , while it claims him for a Lon- doner , is silent concerning his foreign parentage ; his maternal descent , like that of Sir Joshua Rey- nolds ...
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... seems to have found it and followed it . Having succeeded so admirably in pedestals , the citizens of London imagined that he might be equally successful with a figure , and accordingly commissioned him to execute the statue of Charles ...
... seems to have found it and followed it . Having succeeded so admirably in pedestals , the citizens of London imagined that he might be equally successful with a figure , and accordingly commissioned him to execute the statue of Charles ...
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... seems to have been felt not only by Sir Christopher Wren but by some of the more discerning of the nobility . Those splendid carvings in the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral , and the wooden throne at Canterbury , are of his workmanship ...
... seems to have been felt not only by Sir Christopher Wren but by some of the more discerning of the nobility . Those splendid carvings in the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral , and the wooden throne at Canterbury , are of his workmanship ...
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... seems entitled to much respect . The silence of the auditor's account proves nothing ; the paintings of Wilkie , or the sculpture of Chantrey , would hardly be mixed up with the measure and value price in the expense of any modern ...
... seems entitled to much respect . The silence of the auditor's account proves nothing ; the paintings of Wilkie , or the sculpture of Chantrey , would hardly be mixed up with the measure and value price in the expense of any modern ...
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... 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 sculpture seems to have lingered behind with the barbarians . Speed , the ...
... 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 sculpture seems to have lingered behind with the barbarians . Speed , the ...
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