The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper, 1833 |
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... finished sketch , like the other students , because I have never been instructed in drawing ; but I can paint a little , and if you will do me the honour to sit for your por- trait that I may show it to Mengs , you will do me a great ...
... finished sketch , like the other students , because I have never been instructed in drawing ; but I can paint a little , and if you will do me the honour to sit for your por- trait that I may show it to Mengs , you will do me a great ...
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... finishing . On the 20th of June , 1763 , West arrived in Lon- don : Allen , Hamilton , and Smith , his early and steadfast friends , happened to be there ; they wel- comed him with open arms , and introduced him to many officers of note ...
... finishing . On the 20th of June , 1763 , West arrived in Lon- don : Allen , Hamilton , and Smith , his early and steadfast friends , happened to be there ; they wel- comed him with open arms , and introduced him to many officers of note ...
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... finished his Angelica and Medora , he sent it , by the advice of Reynolds , to the exhibition , together with the ... finishing those works , he had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke . Johnson he admired much ...
... finished his Angelica and Medora , he sent it , by the advice of Reynolds , to the exhibition , together with the ... finishing those works , he had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke . Johnson he admired much ...
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... finished . Reynolds seated himself before the picture , examined it with deep and minute attention for half an hour ; then rising , said to Drummond , West has conquered ; he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated ; I retract ...
... finished . Reynolds seated himself before the picture , examined it with deep and minute attention for half an hour ; then rising , said to Drummond , West has conquered ; he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated ; I retract ...
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... finished three pictures , begun several others , and composed the remainder of the subjects for the chapel , on the progress of Revealed Religion . Those are subjects so replete with dig- nity of character and expression , as demanded ...
... finished three pictures , begun several others , and composed the remainder of the subjects for the chapel , on the progress of Revealed Religion . Those are subjects so replete with dig- nity of character and expression , as demanded ...
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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 130 - 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 130 - 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!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Seite 126 - TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the ardour 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 ? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand form'd...
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 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 131 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read ' — So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear.
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 149 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
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...
Seite 31 - Forty years intercourse, we might almost say friendship, confirmed to the painter the accuracy of these words. "The king received West with easy frankness, assisted him to place the Agrippina in a favourable light, removed the attendants, and brought in the queen, to whom he presented our quaker. He related to her majesty the history of the picture, and bade her notice the simplicity of the design and the beauty of the colouring. ' There is another noble Roman subject...