The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2J. & J. Harper, 1831 |
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... compositions . Dance , an Englishman of sense and acuteness , looked at it closely ; " the colouring surpasses that of Mengs , " he observed , " but the drawing is neither so fine nor so good . " The company engaged eagerly in the ...
... compositions . Dance , an Englishman of sense and acuteness , looked at it closely ; " the colouring surpasses that of Mengs , " he observed , " but the drawing is neither so fine nor so good . " The company engaged eagerly in the ...
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... composition , he had no wish to remain in Rome - his heart was with his native land . He , however , resolved to visit the island of his fathers , and prepared for his journey . Of Rome he has left us this brief and pithy memo- randum ...
... composition , he had no wish to remain in Rome - his heart was with his native land . He , however , resolved to visit the island of his fathers , and prepared for his journey . Of Rome he has left us this brief and pithy memo- randum ...
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... compositions called by courtesy clas- sical , complained of the barbarism of boots , and buttons , and blunderbusses , and cried out for naked warriors , with bows , bucklers , and battering rams . Lord Grosvenor , disregarding the ...
... compositions called by courtesy clas- sical , complained of the barbarism of boots , and buttons , and blunderbusses , and cried out for naked warriors , with bows , bucklers , and battering rams . Lord Grosvenor , disregarding the ...
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... composition , that his attendance at the burial of so eminent a brother as Gainsborough was mentioned as some- thing extraordinary . It must not be supposed that he enjoyed without envy the threefold blessing of magnificent subjects ...
... composition , that his attendance at the burial of so eminent a brother as Gainsborough was mentioned as some- thing extraordinary . It must not be supposed that he enjoyed without envy the threefold blessing of magnificent subjects ...
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... compositions it is not mentioned . Such subjects are frequently chosen by young and presumptuous men , who imagine that it is grand and daring to single out a sublime or splendid scene from history or poetry - they have yet to learn ...
... compositions it is not mentioned . Such subjects are frequently chosen by young and presumptuous men , who imagine that it is grand and daring to single out a sublime or splendid scene from history or poetry - they have yet to learn ...
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Seite 72 - Barry, that the arms with which the ill dispositions of the world are to be combated, and the qualities by which it is to be reconciled to us, and we reconciled to it, are moderation, gentleness, a little indulgence to others, and a great deal of distrust of ourselves ; which are not qualities of a mean spirit, as some may possibly think them ; but virtues of a great and noble kind, and such as dignify our nature, as much as they contribute to our repose and fortune; for nothing can be so unworthy...
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 232 - In painting, he contented himself with negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St. Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramanti and his successors, he concentrated, suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Seite 137 - but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden, there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness in the air ; I heard a low and pleasant sound, and knew not whence it came.
Seite 34 - When it was understood," said the artist, "that T intended to paint the characters as they had actually appeared on the scene, the Archbishop of York called on Reynolds, and asked his opinion; they both came to my house to dissuade me from running so great a risk. Reynolds began a very ingenious and elegant dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by urging...
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...
Seite 143 - Belvidere, and all the grand works of ancient art. They were executed in a very superior style to those justly admired copies, being with their accompaniments terrific and grand in the highest degree. The Artist has endeavoured to emulate the grandeur of those seen in his vision, and to apply it to modern Heroes, on a smaller scale.
Seite 231 - A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty ; the hump of his dwarf is impressed with dignity ; his women are moulds of generation ; his infants teem with the man ; his men are a race of giants. This is the
Seite 102 - ... the meaner sort of painters, who counterfeit only such faces as are set before them, and the more excellent, who, having no law but wit, bestow that in colours upon you which is fittest for the eye to see...