 The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of the countenance, than in the most minute finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3521862Full view - About this book
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of the countenance, than in the most minute finishingof the features, or any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's portraits were often little... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of the countenance, than in the most minute finishingof the features, or any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's portraits were often little... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of...finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's portraits were often little more, in regard to finishing, or determining the form... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art, English - 1819 - 446 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of...finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's portraits were often little more, in regard to finishing, or determining the form... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of...of the features, or •any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's portraits were often little more, in regard to finishing, or determining the form... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1835 - 514 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of...finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's portraits were often little more, in regard to finishing, or determining the form... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving; the general effect of...finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's portraits were often little more, in regard to finishing, or determining the form... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Artists - 1824 - 318 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of...finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's portraits were often little more, in regard to finishing, or determining the form... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Painters - 1846 - 506 pages
...together is either forgotten or neglected. The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of...finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts. Now Gainsborough's 'portraits were often little more, in regard to finishing, or determining the form... | |
 | John Burnet - Art - 1848 - 244 pages
...of thought. Reynolds seems always to have been of opinion that the likeness of a portrait consisted more in preserving the general effect of the countenance...finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts ; in his last sittings, this general effect was produced by glazing, and uniting in one tone all the... | |
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