 | William Hazlitt - 1844 - 476 pages
...superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know this perfectly well ; but I know likewise, that a man looking for...nature which Gainsborough exhibited in his portraits and in his landscapes, and the interesting simplicity and elegance of his little ordinary beggar-children,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 pages
...superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know this perfectly well; but I know likewise, that a man looking for...nature, which Gainsborough exhibited in his portraits and in his landscapes, and the interesting simplicity and elegance of his little ordinary beggar-children,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 pages
...superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know this perfectly well ; but I know likewise, that a man looking for...impression of nature, which Gainsborough exhibited * If Sir Joshua had an offer to exchange a Luca Giordano in his collection for a Claude Lorraine, he... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 pages
...superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know this perfectly well ; but I know likewise, that a man looking for...nature, which Gainsborough exhibited in his portraits and in his landscapes, and the interesting simplicity and elegance of his little ordinary beggarchildren,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...manner of the great men w!,o went bt'llirp them. I know this perfectly well : but I know lib-wise, that a man looking for real and lasting reputation...works of the artists whom I have named. For my own pan, I confess, I take more interest in and am more captivated with the powerful impression of nature,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 pages
...superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know this perfectly well ; but I know likewise, that a man looking for...nature, which Gainsborough exhibited in his portraits and in his landscapes, and the interesting simplicity and elegance of his little ordinary beggarchildren,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know this perfectly well ; but I know likewise, that a man looking for...nature which Gainsborough exhibited in his portraits and in his landscapes, and the interesting simplicity and elegance of his little ordinary beggar-children,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pages
...superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know this perfectly well ; but I know likewise, that a man looking for...part, I confess, I take more interest in and am more captiJvated with the powerful impression of nature which GainsI borough exhibited in his portraits... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 546 pages
...superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know this perfectly well ; but I know likewise, that a man looking for...nature, which Gainsborough exhibited in his portraits and in his landscapes, and the interesting simplicity and elegance of his little ordinary beggar-children,... | |
 | Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1904 - 304 pages
...of superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them ;" but, he continued, "a man looking for real and lasting reputation, must...commonplace method so observable in the works of the [contemporary Italian] artists whom I have named. For my own part, I confess I take more interest in,... | |
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I allude to, and whose loss we lament, in a certain routine of practice, which, to the eyes of common observers, has the air of a learned composition, and bears a sort of superficial resemblance to the manner of the great men who went before them. I know... 
