The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1859 |
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... guineas and a half for a head , and five guineas for a half length ; and the money thus laboriously earned was treasured prudently , to secure , at some future day , the means of travel and study . Young as he was , he had the sagacity ...
... guineas and a half for a head , and five guineas for a half length ; and the money thus laboriously earned was treasured prudently , to secure , at some future day , the means of travel and study . Young as he was , he had the sagacity ...
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... guineas ; and the spirit of amass- ing money seemed in a fair way of making him its own , when a letter from Smith recalled his thoughts to Italy . The Italian harvest having failed , a consignment of wheat and flour was sent from the ...
... guineas ; and the spirit of amass- ing money seemed in a fair way of making him its own , when a letter from Smith recalled his thoughts to Italy . The Italian harvest having failed , a consignment of wheat and flour was sent from the ...
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... guineas- " a present to aid in his equipment for Italy . " The plodding citizens of New - York rose in the painter's estimation at least fifty per cent . Two merchants in Leghorn , Messrs . Jackson and Ruther- ford , received him kindly ...
... guineas- " a present to aid in his equipment for Italy . " The plodding citizens of New - York rose in the painter's estimation at least fifty per cent . Two merchants in Leghorn , Messrs . Jackson and Ruther- ford , received him kindly ...
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... guineas - a royal price , when we consider the charges of Reynolds and Gainsbo- rough at this time . They are well conceived and prettily drawn , but want soul and substance , and seem the shadows of what is noble and lovely . There is ...
... guineas - a royal price , when we consider the charges of Reynolds and Gainsbo- rough at this time . They are well conceived and prettily drawn , but want soul and substance , and seem the shadows of what is noble and lovely . There is ...
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... guineas for the work : West accepted the offer , for he was far from being rich , but on condition that he should be allowed to make a copy , with altera- tions , for his native place . He did so and when the copy went to America , the ...
... guineas for the work : West accepted the offer , for he was far from being rich , but on condition that he should be allowed to make a copy , with altera- tions , for his native place . He did so and when the copy went to America , the ...
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admired Amelia Opie appeared artist Barry Barry's beauty Benjamin West Bird Blake brethren Burke called character colours companion compositions copy death Domenichino drawing easel eminent engravings excellence exclaimed exhibited eyes fame fancy father feeling Felpham finished formed fortune friends Fuseli gallery genius GEORGE MORLAND grace grave guineas hand happy Hassell Henry Fuseli historical honour imagination imbodied invention kind King labour lived London looked Lord Lord Grosvenor Majesty master merit Michael Angelo Milton mind Morland nation nature never Opie original painter painting pencil person picture Pindar poet poetic poetry portrait praise Prince Hoare productions Quaker racter Raphael Rembrandt Reynolds Rome Royal Academy says scene seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Sistine Chapel sketches skill spirit talents taste temper thing thought tion Titian tures visions West wife wild wish Wolcot young
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Seite 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Seite 125 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Seite 131 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
Seite 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Seite 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Seite 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Seite 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Seite 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Seite 144 - How do we distinguish the oak from the beech, the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline? How do we distinguish one face or countenance from another, but by the bounding line and its infinite inflexions and movements?
Seite 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...