The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1859 |
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... says , " the munifi- cence of the Medici was equalled by these American magistrates . " West , with recovered health , and a heavier purse , was now able to follow the counsel of Mengs : -he visited Florence , Bologna , and Venice . The ...
... says , " the munifi- cence of the Medici was equalled by these American magistrates . " West , with recovered health , and a heavier purse , was now able to follow the counsel of Mengs : -he visited Florence , Bologna , and Venice . The ...
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... say friendship , confirmed to the painter the accuracy of these words . The King received West with easy frankness , as- sisted him to place the Agrippina in a favourable light , removed the attendants , and brought in the Queen , to ...
... say friendship , confirmed to the painter the accuracy of these words . The King received West with easy frankness , as- sisted him to place the Agrippina in a favourable light , removed the attendants , and brought in the Queen , to ...
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... says Galt , " rendered the studies of the best part of the artist's life useless , and deprived him of that honourable provision , the fruit of his talents and industry , on which he had counted for the repose of his declining years ...
... says Galt , " rendered the studies of the best part of the artist's life useless , and deprived him of that honourable provision , the fruit of his talents and industry , on which he had counted for the repose of his declining years ...
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... says Galt , " was the last inter- view he was permitted to have with his early and constant , and to him truly royal , patron . But he continued to execute the pictures , and , in the usual quarterly payments , received his £ 1000 per ...
... says Galt , " was the last inter- view he was permitted to have with his early and constant , and to him truly royal , patron . But he continued to execute the pictures , and , in the usual quarterly payments , received his £ 1000 per ...
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... say what he did not feel . Many of his single figures , also , are of a high order . There is a natural grace in the looks of some of his women which few painters have ever excelled . West was injured by early success he obtained his ...
... say what he did not feel . Many of his single figures , also , are of a high order . There is a natural grace in the looks of some of his women which few painters have ever excelled . West was injured by early success he obtained his ...
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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...