The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper, 1833 |
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... opened a letter , and said , " I am instructed to give you unlimited credit ; you will have the goodness to ask for what sum you please . " It is not without cause that Mr. Galt says , the munifi- cence of the Medici was equalled by ...
... opened a letter , and said , " I am instructed to give you unlimited credit ; you will have the goodness to ask for what sum you please . " It is not without cause that Mr. Galt says , the munifi- cence of the Medici was equalled by ...
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... opened a way to those marks of academic approbation usually be- stowed on fortunate artists . Having studied the great Italian masters , and acquired much useful knowledge in the trick of colour and composition , he had no wish to ...
... opened a way to those marks of academic approbation usually be- stowed on fortunate artists . Having studied the great Italian masters , and acquired much useful knowledge in the trick of colour and composition , he had no wish to ...
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... opened spontaneously like those of Milton's Para- dise , no longer flew wide at his approach , but turned on their hinges grating and reluctantly . What this might mean he was informed by Mr. Wyatt , the royal architect , who called and ...
... opened spontaneously like those of Milton's Para- dise , no longer flew wide at his approach , but turned on their hinges grating and reluctantly . What this might mean he was informed by Mr. Wyatt , the royal architect , who called and ...
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... opened to their studies and their distresses . The breath of envy or the whisper of detraction never defiled my lips , nor the want of morality my character ; and your Majesty's virtues and those of her Majesty have been the theme of my ...
... opened to their studies and their distresses . The breath of envy or the whisper of detraction never defiled my lips , nor the want of morality my character ; and your Majesty's virtues and those of her Majesty have been the theme of my ...
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... opened the continent , and thither West went , to see with his own eyes the splendid works of the pencil and chisel , which Buonaparte had assembled in the Louvre . The President of the British Academy was not to be overlooked by the ...
... opened the continent , and thither West went , to see with his own eyes the splendid works of the pencil and chisel , which Buonaparte had assembled in the Louvre . The President of the British Academy was not to be overlooked by 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 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...