Modern painters and their paintings, by Sarah Tytler1873 |
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Academy's admired Allston American artist Ary Scheffer Barry beauty became Bierstadt born brother Church colour commission Cornelius death Delaroche died drawing Düsseldorf early elected an associate England English painters engraving Etty execution father figures France French fresco friends Gainsborough genius genre George George Cruikshank George Morland German Hamerton hand Haydon high art historical painting Hogarth honour Horace Vernet hundred guineas illustrations Ingres Italy Kaulbach King lady landscape painter Landseer later Legion of Honour Leslie Leutze London Lord Maclise married Mary Moser merits mother Mulready National Gallery nature Opie Ottley Overbeck Paris Paul Delaroche picture Pitlessie portrait painter pupil Queen received Redgrave Rome Rosa Bonheur Rossetti Royal Academy Ruskin SAM BOUGH scene Sir Joshua Reynolds sister sketches student subjects success thousand pounds tion Turner Vernet water-colour wife Wilkie Wilkie's William Hogarth young painter
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Page 333 - I do not think I have ever been more completely captivated on a first acquaintance. He was of a light and graceful form, with large blue eyes, and black silken hair, waving and curling round a pale expressive countenance. Everything about him bespoke the man of intellect and refinement. His conversation was copious, animated, and highly graphic ; warmed by a genial sensibility and benevolence, and enlivened at times by a chaste and gentle humor.
Page 99 - I cannot call it colour, it was conflagration. Purple, and crimson, and scarlet, like the curtains of God's tabernacle, the rejoicing trees sank into the valley in showers of light, every separate leaf quivering with buoyant and burning life ; each, as it turned to reflect or to transmit the sunbeam, first a torch and then an emerald. Far up into the recesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea, with the arbutus flowers dashed along their...
Page 99 - It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap of thunder or two, and breaking gleams of sun along the Claudian aqueduct lighting up the infinity of its arches like the bridge of chaos.
Page 34 - Gainsborough's hand is as light as the sweep of a cloud — as swift as the flash of a sunbeam ; Lee's execution is feeble and spotty.
Page 250 - Here the exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of the coffin and the folds of the blanket, are language — language clear and expressive in the highest degree. But the close pressure of the dog's breast against the wood, the convulsive clinging of the paws, which has dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed...
Page 282 - English carnival should be painted ; and of the entirely popular manner of painting, which, however, we must remember, is necessarily, because popular, stooping and restricted, I have never seen an abler example. The drawing of the distant figures seems to me especially dexterous and admirable ; but it is very difficult to characterize the picture in accurate general terms. It is a kind of cross between John Leech and Wilkie, with a dash of daguerreotype here and there, and some pretty seasoning...
Page 5 - All this he laughed at, and in the following little epigram whimsically enough describes his own feelings : — "What ! a book, and by Hogarth ! then twenty to ten, All he's gained by the pencil he'll lose by the pen.
Page 125 - Joseph and Mary resting on the road to Egypt ; ' and on October 1st, 1806, setting my palette and taking brush in hand, I knelt down and prayed God to bless my career, to grant me energy to create a new era in art, and to rouse the people and patrons to a just estimate of the moral value of historical painting.
Page 99 - Far up into the recesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea, with the arbutus flowers dashed along their flanks for foam, and silver flakes of orange spray tossed into the air around them, breaking over the grey walls of rock into a thousand separate stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall.
Page 277 - Cimabue's celebrated Madonna is carried in procession through the streets of Florence ; in front of the Madonna, and crowned with laurels, walks Cimabue himself with his pupil Giotto ; behind it, Arnolfo di Lapo. Gaddo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Nicola I'isano, Bufalmaceo, and Simone Memmi ; in the corner Dante.