| Matthew Pilkington - 1840 - 794 pages
...sufficient to acquire for us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainshorough would be transmitted to posterity in the history of the art, among the first of that rising name. Whether he most excelled in portraits, landscapes, or fancy pictures, it... | |
| 1841 - 274 pages
...is the subject of it, . and winch our subsequent experience in art has fully confirmed. If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...to posterity, in the history of the art, among the verv first of that rising name. Comparing Gainsborough with certain masters of the Roman school, he... | |
| Irvin Eller - 1841 - 450 pages
...testimony of Sir Joshua Reynolds to his merits, is concurred in, almost unanimously. " If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, as one of the very first of that rising name." And Walpole exclaims, " What frankness of nature in... | |
| Irvin Eller - 1841 - 458 pages
...testimony of Sir Joshua Reynolds to his merits, is concurred in, almost unanimously. " If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, as one of the very first of that rising name." And Walpole exclaims, " What frankness of nature in... | |
| 1841 - 276 pages
...Wilson, nor borrowed the postures of his portraits from the old masters, like Reynolds. No If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to prslerity, in the history of the art, among the very first of that rising name. Comparing Gainsborough... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1842 - 352 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds, in a lecture delivered immediately after his death, declared that " if ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...the art among the very first of that rising name.". If with the name of Gainsborough we join those of Hogarth, Wilson, and Reynolds, all as yet unrivalled... | |
| 1842 - 468 pages
...his talented friend, says, " That if ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire for us the honourable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough would be transmitted to posterity in the history of the art, among the first of that rising name."... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1845 - 710 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds, in a lecture delivered immediately after his death, declared that " iftnr this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...the art among the very first of that rising name." If with the name of Gainsborough we join those of Hogarth, Wilson, and Reynolds, all as yet unrivalled... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 512 pages
...President of the Royal Academy, he said, " If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire us the honourable distinction of an English school,...transmitted to posterity, in the history of the art, amongst the very first of the rising name." — Sir Joshua's partiality for snuff has already been... | |
| John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1846 - 414 pages
...should produce yenius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable rlktinction of the English School, Ihn name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity in the history of art, amorg the very lirst of that rising name." painter may be enabled to resume his palette, and that... | |
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