 | John Thomas Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 334 pages
...men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility,...great masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he was beyond them ; for he communicated to that description of the art, in which English artists are... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste — in grace —...richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them ; for he communicated to that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...men of his time. He was the first Englishman •who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility,...happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of coloring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...men of his time. Ho was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the geatest inventors of the renowned ages... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch - Booksellers' catalogs - 1864 - 644 pages
...(pub. at £36.) elegantly hf. bd. morocco, full qilt barb aid gilt edges, £10. 10s ... 1834, etc. In' taste, in grace, in facility, in happy Invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring. t« •" equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them; for he... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility,...happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of coloring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them ;... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - Artists - 1865 - 662 pages
...his biog rnphers. he was one of the greatest painters that ever lived. Burke says, in his eulogium, " in taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of coloring, he was equai to the greatest masters of the renowned ages . ' in portraits he went beyond... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - Artists - 1867 - 654 pages
...his biog raphers, he was one of the greatest painters that ever lived. Burke says, in his eulogium, " in taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of coloring, he was equai to the greatest masters of the renowned ages . in portraits he went beyond them.... | |
 | National gallery - 1869 - 208 pages
...who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of Ms country. In taste, in grace, and facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages." " His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not... | |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and... 
