| Sir James Prior - 1854 - 840 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,...of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them ; for he communicated to that department of the art... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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;... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...invention, and in the richness and harmony of coloring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the most renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them ; for...he communicated to that description of the art, in wrhich English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher... | |
| James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...men of his time. He was the fir? t 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 in the richness arid harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages." "His social... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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 ;... | |
| T P Grinsted - Great Britain - 1859 - 342 pages
...a high eulogium upon the merits of Eeynolds as a painter, remarking that " 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." Cunningham, in his memoir of Sir Joshua, relates the following... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...men of his time. He was the first Englishmen who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other 860 greatest masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went heyond them ; for he communicated to that... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 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 —...happy invention — and in the richness and harmony of coloring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 454 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, in happy invention, in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest inventors of the renowned ages.... | |
| John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest inventors of the renowned ages. " He possessed the theory as perfectly as the practice of... | |
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