Catalogue of the first special exhibition of national portraits ending with the reign of king James the second on loan to the South Kensington museum, Volume 2 |
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Page ix - But whether the period over which each exhibition (if more than one) should range be longer or shorter, the point on which I should set the greatest value, in an historical, if not in an artistic point of view, would be the strict maintenance of the chronological series. I shall be very happy if any suggestions of mine should lead the Committee of Council to take up seriously, and carry out, with such alterations of detail as experience might suggest, a scheme which I think could hardly fail of being...
Page 119 - Lilly's book arose from a jealousy, that he was not thoroughly in the Parliament's interest, which was true, for he frankly confesses, " That till the year 1645, he was more Cavalier than Roundhead, and so taken notice of: but after that he engaged body and soul in the cause of the Parliament.
Page 29 - Answer more true than discretionary, as more consulting therein his own Animosity than Allegiance. The King, who in this kind would give and not take, being no Good Fellow in tart Repartees, was so highly offended thereat, that Sir Nicholas fell from the top of his Favour to the bottom of his Displeasure, and was bruised to Death thereby.
Page ix - I have long thought that a National Portrait Exhibition, chronologically arranged, might not only possess great historical interest, by bringing together portraits of all the most eminent contemporaries of their respective eras, but might also serve to illustrate the progress and condition, at various periods, of British Art " — and at the same time tendering any portraits from his collection at Knowsley.