 Baird's, to Mr John Alexander, a painter in Edinburgh, who allowed me to pass an hour every day at his house, for a month, to copy from his drawings, and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colours if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would...  The Book of the Chronicles of Keith, Grange, Ruthven, Cairney, and ... - Page 344by James Frederick Skinner Gordon - 1880 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...from his drawings ; and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colours, if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...was too much for me to desire them to do ; nor did I chuse to serve so long. I was then recommended to other painters, but they would do nothing without... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...from his drawings ; and said he would teach me to paint in oil colours, if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...so long. I was then recommended to other painters, 2 c 2 but they would do nothing without money. So I was quite at a loss what to do. In a few days after... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...from his drawings ; and said he would teach me to paint in oil colours, if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...recommendation from my good friend squire Baird to the reverend Dr Robert Keith at Edinburgh, to whom I gave an account of my bad success among the painters... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...copy from his drawings, and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colours if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...recommendation from my good friend Squire Baird, to the Rev. Dr Robert Keith at Edinburgh, to whom I gave an account of my bad success among the painters there.... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...from his drawings ; and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colours, if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...then recommended to other painters, but they would no nothing without money. So I was quite at a loss what to do. In a few days after this, I received... | |
 | Agnes Loudon - Children - 1846 - 308 pages
...much as I possibly could. She did not, however, appear to notice me, and she wept so abundantly, that I was quite at a loss what to do. In a few minutes, however, my pity for her was changed into anger against Mr. Lawrence, who had followed us... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1853 - 372 pages
...i'roin his drawings ; and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colours if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...recommendation from my good friend 'squire Baird, to the Rev. Dr Robert Keith at Edinburgh, to whom I gave an account of my bad success among the painters there.... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 552 pages
...copy from his drawings ; and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colors, if I would servo him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...recommendation from my good friend squire Baird, to the Rev. Dr. Robert Keith, at Edinburgh, to whom I gave an account of my bad success among the painters... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...from his drawings,4s and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colours, if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...I was then recommended to other painters, but they 45 As already mentioned (in note 40), " William Baird, Esq. of Anchmedden, had six sons and four daughters,... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 pages
...from his drawings,4" and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colours, if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time...I was then recommended to other painters, but they <5 As already mentioned (in note 40), " William liaird, Esq. of Auchmedden, had six sons and four daughters,... | |
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