 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished .. works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pages
...not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 324 pages
...not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
 | John Smith - 1829 - 566 pages
...and beauty. Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his Journey through Flanders, observes, " that few pictures by Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius ; all the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. The latter picture (he says) has more... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 514 pages
...contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures L 3 of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures LS of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 pages
...contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent; few pictures L 3 of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pages
...the Romaus and Sabines. " Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genins." — Sir Joshua Reynolds. — VANDYCK : the Virgin Mary, with the Child upon her lap, and Joseph... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 390 pages
...Romans and Sabines. " Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higljer idea of his genins." — Sir Joshua Reynolds. — VANDYCK : the Virgin Mary, with the Child... | |
 | John Weale - 1852 - 966 pages
...Vase, from the Hesse Cassel Gallery, whence it was carried off by the French. Rembrandt Portrait of a Gentleman, from the Hesse Cassel and Malmaison collections....abovenamed. Holbein. Portrait of a Prince of Saxony. J. van Huyaum. Fruit, from the Hesse Cassel Gallery. N. Poussin. Jupiter and Io, from Lucien Bonaparte's collection.... | |
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... arms' length, and showing them to the soldiers, to excite their compassion. The whole composition is full of animation, to which the air of the horses, thus pressed backwards, does not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed,... 
