Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 - 239 страници |
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Страница 72 - The next time I saw Gainsborough it was in the character of King David. He had heard a harper at Bath : the performer was soon left harpless...
Страница 144 - The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator.
Страница 156 - If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honorable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of the art, among the very first of that rising name.
Страница 166 - That Gainsborough himself considered this peculiarity in his manner, and the power it possesses of exciting surprise, as a beauty in his works, I think may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed, that his pictures, at the Exhibition, should be seen near, as well as at a distance.
Страница 143 - Now don't laugh, but listen. I shall die soon — I know it — I feel it — I have less time to live than my looks infer — but for this I care not. What oppresses my mind is this : I have many acquaintances and few friends ; and as I wish to have one worthy man to accompany me to the grave, I am desirous of bespeaking you — will you come — aye or no...
Страница 144 - On returning home he mentioned what he felt to his wife and his niece ; and on looking they saw a mark, about the size of a shilling, which was harder to the touch than the surrounding skin, and which he said still felt cold.
Страница 158 - I however mean such only as are connected with his art, and indeed were, as I apprehend, the causes of his arriving to that high degree of excellence, which we see and acknowledge in his work*. Of these causes we must state, as the fundamental, the love which he had to his art ; to which, indeed, his whole mind...
Страница 161 - This is an inference not warranted by the success of any individual ; and I trust it will not be thought that I wish to make this use of it. It must be remembered, that the style and department of art which Gainsborough chose, and in which he so much excelled, did not require that he should go out of his own country for the objects of his study : they were every where about him ; he found them in the streets and in the fields ; and, from the models thus accidentally found, he selected, with great...
Страница 164 - In his fancy-pictures, when he had fixed on his object of imitation, whether it was the mean and vulgar form of a wood-cutter, or a child of an interesting character, as he did not attempt to raise the one, so neither did he lose any...
Страница 156 - It is not our business here to make panegyrics on the living, or even on the dead who were of our body. The praise of the former might bear appearance of adulation; and the latter, of untimely justice; perhaps of envy to those whom we have still the happiness to enjoy, by an oblique suggestion of invidious comparisons. In discoursing therefore on the talents of the late Mr. Gainsborough, my object is not so much to praise or to blame him...