 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1870 - 788 pages
...'Grinling Gibbon. — An original g:nius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together * the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland or in England... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Art - 1870 - 496 pages
...Second. He excelled in carving flowers and foliage ; and Walpole has said with justice, " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy li|(htm,ei of (lowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Derbyshire (England) - 1872 - 324 pages
...well-merited eulogium passed upon the principal artist by Horace Walpole. " There is no instance," says he, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." It is generally believed that Gibbons was the artist of these exquisite carvings. There is, however,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Derbyshire (England) - 1874 - 350 pages
...his day's sport on the wall, and that some of the birds are still in their death flutter. There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. In the great antechamber are several dead fowl over the chimney, finely executed, and, over a closet-door,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1875 - 682 pages
...the walls is quite wonderful. It was of him that Walpole justly said, ' that he was the first artist who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...productions of the elements, with a free disorder natural to eaoli species.' The lime tree is still, however, used by the carver, and we hopo that the art of wood... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1878 - 450 pages
...Grinling Gibbon. — An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland, or in England... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - 606 pages
...models before their eyes. An inventor is equally a master whether born in Italy or Lapland. There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. Vertue had received two different accounts of his birth; from Murray the painter, that he was born... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...Walpole) before Gibbons had "ever given to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, or linked together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." His cJief d' œuvre of skill was an imitation point-lace cravat, which he carved at Chatsworth for... | |
 | Julia Ann Clark Shedd - Sculptors - 1881 - 384 pages
...the altar. The font of St. James is among his few works in marble. Horace Walpole says : " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers." His talent, for composition seems not to have equalled his skill in execution. ' He died iu 1721. ANDREAS... | |
 | James Croston - Cheshire (England) - 1882 - 484 pages
...degree, the evil influ* Gibbons, of whom Horace Walpole said " there was no instance of a man before who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together the various productions of the elements with a freer disorder natural to each species," died in 1721, and, while there is good reason for supposing... | |
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There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species. 
