Anecdotes of Painting in England;: With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts;

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Page 290 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Page 150 - II. who was too indolent to search for genius, and too indiscriminate in his bounty to confine it to merit, but was always pleased when it was brought home to him. He gave the artist a place in the Board of Works, and employed his hand on ornaments of most taste in his palaces, particularly at Windsor.
Page 209 - Ratcliffe replied, peevishly, " Tell him he may do any thing with it but paint it." " And I," answered sir Godfrey, *' can take any thing from him but physic.
Page 197 - William, for whom he painted the beauties of Hampton ' Court; and by whom he was knighted in 1692, and presented with a gold medal and chain worth 300/.
Page 126 - Mr. Laniere satt so often and so long for his picture, that he was not permitted so much as once to see it till he had perfectly finished the face to his own satisfaction. This was the picture which being show'd to king Charles I., caused him to give order that V.
Page 244 - Dow, from whom he caught a great delicacy of finishing ; but his chief practice was to paint candle-lights. He placed the object and a candle in a dark room ; and looking through a small hole, painted by day-light what he saw in the dark chamber. Sometimes he...
Page 208 - Kneller was fond of flowers, and had a fine collection. As there was great intimacy between him and the physician, he permitted the latter to have a door into his garden ; but Ratcliffe's servants gathering and destroying the flowers, Kneller sent him word he must shut up the door.
Page 272 - England, who, discovering a disposition to the arts and belles lettres, was sent to travel in 1697, and, on his way to Italy, passed through Holland in the train of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, one of the plenipotentiaries at the treaty of Ryswick. Mr. Howard proceeded as he had intended, and, having visited France and Italy, returned home in October, 1700.
Page 203 - The latter had no more of Rubens's rich colouring than of Vandyck's delicacy in habits : but he had more beauty than the latter, more diguia^ than Sir Peter Lely.
Page 259 - Some of his profession asserting that, though he was skilful in drapery, he could not execute a naked figure, he engaged in an Alexander the Great, which served to prove that his rivals were in the right, at least in what he could not do. His next whim was to demonstrate the possibility of the Trojan Horse, which he had heard treated as a fable that could not have been put in execution. He undertook such a wooden receptacle, and had the...

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