 English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the...  Sotheran's Price Current of Literature - Page 231918Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 256 pages
...communicated to that description of the art, in which English artists are most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity, derived from the higher branches,...delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not... | |
 | Joseph William Comyns Carr - 1883 - 984 pages
...communicated to that description of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches,...always preserve when they delineated individual nature. . . . In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from... | |
 | Henry Sotheran Ltd - Booksellers' catalogs - 1884 - 354 pages
...colouring, Sir Joshua Reynolds was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages. In Portrait lie went beyond them ; for he communicated to them that...us of the invention and the amenity of landscape.*' — Burke. RENNIE (Professor) INSECT ARCHITECTURE ; new edition, enlarged by the Rev. JG Wood, with... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...communicated to that department of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches,...delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he... | |
 | England - 1884 - 804 pages
...communicated to that description of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches,...always preserve when they delineated individual nature. . . . In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from... | |
 | Joseph Comyns Carr - Art - 1885 - 248 pages
...communicated to that description of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches,...always preserve when they delineated individual nature. ... In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from... | |
 | 1885 - 762 pages
...description of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a diçnity derived from the higher branches, which even those...always preserve when they delineated individual nature. ... In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that owned a higher function than portraiture,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1886 - 360 pages
...communicated to that description of the art, in which English artists are most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity, derived from the higher branches,...delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1879 - 604 pages
...communicated to that description of the art in which English artists are the most engaged a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches...preserve, when they delineated individual nature. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...communicated to that department of the art, in which English artists are the mo*t engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity, derived from the higher branches,...in a superior manner, did not always preserve when ihey dflineated individual nature. His portraits remind tiltspectator of the invention of history,... | |
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