The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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Page 106
... painters , ' said Reynolds , before the age of Raphael are better than the painters since the time of Carlo ... painter , subsequently formed himself in Italy by the study of nature and the great masters of landscape . While ...
... painters , ' said Reynolds , before the age of Raphael are better than the painters since the time of Carlo ... painter , subsequently formed himself in Italy by the study of nature and the great masters of landscape . While ...
Page 107
... painter of portraits . ' If allow- ance 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 stopped . He could not inform his faces ...
... painter of portraits . ' If allow- ance 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 stopped . He could not inform his faces ...
Page 108
... painter than some one in the next street , or surprised that the people at his own table should speak in praise of his pictures . ' His steady efforts to rise upwards main- tained his popularity to the end . The public never tired of ...
... painter than some one in the next street , or surprised that the people at his own table should speak in praise of his pictures . ' His steady efforts to rise upwards main- tained his popularity to the end . The public never tired of ...
Page 109
... painter , in the Dedication to the Deserted Village , ' ' I am ignorant of the art in which you are said to excel . ' + * The knowledge of Burke himself was chiefly confined to abstract theory . ' I know nothing , ' he said , of the ...
... painter , in the Dedication to the Deserted Village , ' ' I am ignorant of the art in which you are said to excel . ' + * The knowledge of Burke himself was chiefly confined to abstract theory . ' I know nothing , ' he said , of the ...
Page 110
... painters . An artist , who was con- temporary with him , contrasting , in the early part of the next century , his past experience with his present , said at a meeting of his brethren , I now see only gentlemen before me . ' In In 1758 ...
... painters . An artist , who was con- temporary with him , contrasting , in the early part of the next century , his past experience with his present , said at a meeting of his brethren , I now see only gentlemen before me . ' In In 1758 ...
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