| Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 902 pages
...speaking of the same Phidias, says, — " Neither did this artist, when he carved the image of Jupiter or Minerva, set before him any one human figure, as...imitation of persons, to run too much into minute detail. Their historical heads and figures too frequently resemble particular portraits ; as was once the custom... | |
| Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 928 pages
...individual he is employed to paint, might, in the same manner, to give a nobler turn to his work, Ijy introducing a fancy, a variety, and a dignity, borrowed...imitation of persons, to run too much into minute detail. Their historical heads and figures too frequently resemble particular portraits ; as was once the custom... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention 'of history...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits be struck with a sort of divine horronr, and cries...out, Fearfully and wonderfully am I made ! An heath he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings... | |
| George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...in a superior manner, did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history,...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings... | |
| Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings... | |
| Peter Burke - 1854 - 346 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1854 - 840 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings... | |
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