The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, المجلد 5J. Murray, 1832 |
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الصفحة 111 - Countess, here, in ermin'd pride, Is, there, Pastora by a fountain side. Here Fannia, leering on her own good man, And there, a naked Leda with a Swan.
الصفحة 35 - London for some time, about two years ago ; has been since at home painting here like a Raphael; sets out for the seat of the beast beyond the Alps, within a month hence ; to be away about two years. I'm sweer to part with him, but canna stem the current, which flows from the advice of his patrons and his own inclination.
الصفحة 218 - He spoke a few words to me in his usual brief and kindly way - evidently to put me into an agreeable mood; and then, having placed me in a chair on a platform at the end of his painting-room, in the posture required, set up his easel beside me with the canvas ready to receive the colour. When he saw all was right, he took his palette and his brush, retreated back step by step, with his face towards me, till he was nigh the other end of...
الصفحة 89 - Romney was again heard pronounced in the same breath with that of Reynolds. Two works, of no ordinary worth, are ascribed to this period : the first of these was of a domestic nature, and in some measure a portrait, as the head was imitated from the daughter of Guy, a surgeon in Chichester. " It was," says the artist's son, " one of the loveliest things I ever saw ; it was truly angelic.
الصفحة 137 - ... the background is made the simplest possible, rejecting all unnecessary episode and trivial ornament, either of secondary groups or architectural subdivision. In his compositions, the beholder was forcibly struck by the sentiment at the first glance : the gradations and varieties...
الصفحة 137 - His cartoons, some of which have unfortunately perished, were examples of the sublime and terrible: at that time perfectly new in English art. As Romney was gifted with peculiar powers for historical and ideal painting, so his heart and soul were engaged in the pursuit of it, whenever he could extricate himself from the importunate business of portrait painting. It was his delight by day, and study by night: and for this his food and rest were often neglected.
الصفحة 51 - Your marchesite, your tutie, your magnesia, Your toad, your crow, your dragon, and your panther; Your sun, your moon, your firmament, your adrop, Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit...
الصفحة 36 - Ramsay's studies at Rome had not been confined to art : " he was smit," says Fuseli, " with the love of classic lore, and desired to trace on dubious vestiges the haunts of ancient genius and learning." For this task he was eminently qualified : he was a good Latin, French, and Italian scholar ; and indeed had mastered most of the living languages of Europe, excepting the Russian : in his latter years, too, he studied Greek, and made such progress as entitled him to be called
الصفحة 51 - FACE. O, sir, we are defeated ! all the works Are flown in fumo,' every glass is burst ; Furnace and all rent down, as if a bolt Of thunder had been driven through the house. Retorts, receivers, pelicans,' bolt-heads,* All struck in shivers ! (SUBTLE falls down as in a swoon.) Help, good sir ! alas, Coldness and death invades him.
الصفحة 30 - ... and bestows liberally on the poor. That he should be in a condition to do all this seems extraordinary, his prices having been so moderate : for, enumerating the debts due to him, he charges Lady Haddington for a whole length of her husband, and Lady Seton's of the same dimensions, frames and all, but three hundred marks ; and Lord Maxwell, for his own picture and his lady's, to their knees, one hundred marks ; both sums of Scots money.