Anecdotes of Painters, who Have Resided Or Been Born in England: With Critical Remarks on Their ProductionsLeigh and Sotheby, 1808 - 327 страници |
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Страница 197 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet *, and only took snuff.
Страница xxviii - The purpose of this exhibition is not to enrich the artist, but to advance the art ; the eminent are not flattered with preference, nor the obscure insulted with contempt ; whoever hopes to deserve public favour is here invited to display his merit.
Страница 83 - Apollo, who appears in the sky, with his bent bow, and that those figures should be considered as the children of Niobe. To manage a subject of this kind, a peculiar style of art is required : and it can only be done without impropriety or even without ridicule, when we adapt the character of the landscape, and that too, in all its parts, to the historical or poetical representation.
Страница 314 - ... [Account of a series of pictures in the Great Room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi...
Страница 133 - ... in the Spectator, that the music lay in the fiddle, he was frantic until he possessed the very instrument which had given -him so much pleasure ; but seemed...
Страница xxviii - These works will be reviewed by the committee that conduct the exhibition. A price will be secretly set on every piece, and registered by the secretary. If the piece...
Страница 83 - In the picture alluded to, the first idea that presents itself is that of wonder, at seeing a figure in so uncommon a situation as that in which the Apollo is placed ; for the clouds on which he kneels have not the appearance of being able to support him...
Страница 301 - That the series of pictures illustrating in their design the Progress of Human Knowledge, and the Advancement of useful and elegant Arts, from a very early period to the present, is a work of great execution and elassical information, and must be deemed a national ornament, as well as a monument of the talents and ingenuity of the artist.
Страница xxviii - ... which we intend to make of our expected profits. Many artists of great abilities are unable to sell their works for their due price; to remove this inconvenience, an annual sale will be appointed, to which every man may send his works, and send them if he will without his name.
Страница 133 - Gainsborough enamoured of that instrument; -and conceiving, like the servant-maid in the Spectator, that the music lay in the fiddle, he was frantic until he possessed the very instrument which had given him SO much pleasure; but seemed much surprised that the music of it remained behind with Giardini!