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Page 106
The painters , ' said Reynolds , before the age of Raphael are better than the
painters since the time of Carlo Maratti . ... Wilson , whose sole instructor was an
obscure portrait - painter , subsequently formed himself in Italy by the study of
nature ...
The painters , ' said Reynolds , before the age of Raphael are better than the
painters since the time of Carlo Maratti . ... Wilson , whose sole instructor was an
obscure portrait - painter , subsequently formed himself in Italy by the study of
nature ...
Page 107
He belonged to the class of what Sir Joshua called the cold painter of portraits . '
If allowance is made for the stiffness of his forms , he was a good copyist of literal
nature , and gave true and strong representations of his sitters . Here his power ...
He belonged to the class of what Sir Joshua called the cold painter of portraits . '
If allowance is made for the stiffness of his forms , he was a good copyist of literal
nature , and gave true and strong representations of his sitters . Here his power ...
Page 108
ordinary , as he was a fashionable painter in his day . ' •Brother , ' said Miss
Reynolds , turning to Sir Joshua , “ how happens it that we never meet with any
pictures by Jervas ? ' Because , ' he replied , they are all up in the garret . There
the ...
ordinary , as he was a fashionable painter in his day . ' •Brother , ' said Miss
Reynolds , turning to Sir Joshua , “ how happens it that we never meet with any
pictures by Jervas ? ' Because , ' he replied , they are all up in the garret . There
the ...
Page 109
the active intellect of the painter . Whatever merit , ' he wrote towards the close of
his career , ' my Discourses have , must be imputed , in a great measure , to the
education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson . I do not mean to ...
the active intellect of the painter . Whatever merit , ' he wrote towards the close of
his career , ' my Discourses have , must be imputed , in a great measure , to the
education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson . I do not mean to ...
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He equally gave a tone to the rising generation , which changed the position of
English painters . An artist , who was contemporary with him , contrasting , in the
early part of the next century , his past experience with his present , said at a ...
He equally gave a tone to the rising generation , which changed the position of
English painters . An artist , who was contemporary with him , contrasting , in the
early part of the next century , his past experience with his present , said at a ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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