The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1859 - Painters |
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... sketches which the boy had made of birds , and fruits , and flowers , for in such drawings many of the wild Americans have both taste and skill . They showed him some of their own workmanship , and taught him how to prepare the red and ...
... sketches which the boy had made of birds , and fruits , and flowers , for in such drawings many of the wild Americans have both taste and skill . They showed him some of their own workmanship , and taught him how to prepare the red and ...
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... sketches of his cousin Benjamin that he sent him a box of paints and pencils , with canvass prepared for the easel , and six engravings by Grevling . West placed the box on a chair at his bedside , and was unable to sleep . He rose with ...
... sketches of his cousin Benjamin that he sent him a box of paints and pencils , with canvass prepared for the easel , and six engravings by Grevling . West placed the box on a chair at his bedside , and was unable to sleep . He rose with ...
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... resolved to become a painter . John West was struck with the growing intelligence and expanding mind of the boy ; his sketches and drawings were now openly encou- raged , and that he was destined to be a 10 EMINENT PAINTERS .
... resolved to become a painter . John West was struck with the growing intelligence and expanding mind of the boy ; his sketches and drawings were now openly encou- raged , and that he was destined to be a 10 EMINENT PAINTERS .
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... , proposed a painting of the death of Socrates . West had heard of Socrates , and forthwith made a sketch which his employer called clever : but he had now 66 66 and begun to feel his deficiencies and see 12 EMINENT PAINTERS .
... , proposed a painting of the death of Socrates . West had heard of Socrates , and forthwith made a sketch which his employer called clever : but he had now 66 66 and begun to feel his deficiencies and see 12 EMINENT PAINTERS .
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... sketch , like the other students , because I have never been instructed in drawing ; but I can paint a little , and if you will do me the honour to sit for your por- trait that I may show it to Mengs , you will do me a great kindness ...
... sketch , like the other students , because I have never been instructed in drawing ; but I can paint a little , and if you will do me the honour to sit for your por- trait that I may show it to Mengs , you will do me a great kindness ...
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Page 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Page 125 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 131 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
Page 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Page 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Page 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Page 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Page 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Page 144 - How do we distinguish the oak from the beech, the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline? How do we distinguish one face or countenance from another, but by the bounding line and its infinite inflexions and movements?
Page 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...