Great English Painters: Selected Biographies from Allan Cunningham's "Lives of Eminent British Painters." |
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... design . To the title must certainly be imputed at least part of the widespread misunderstanding that beset the early efforts of Millais , Holman Hunt , Rossetti , and others , the idea that they imitated , perhaps intentionally and ...
... design . To the title must certainly be imputed at least part of the widespread misunderstanding that beset the early efforts of Millais , Holman Hunt , Rossetti , and others , the idea that they imitated , perhaps intentionally and ...
Page xxx
... design is given an important place , which henceforth will give a solid base to artistic education . Another well - known French critic , M. Eugène Forgues , speaking of the Preraphaelites , ces fiers revendicateurs de l'independance ...
... design is given an important place , which henceforth will give a solid base to artistic education . Another well - known French critic , M. Eugène Forgues , speaking of the Preraphaelites , ces fiers revendicateurs de l'independance ...
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... to have cut himself . Sir Hans Sloane had a book of jewels of his designing which is now in the British Museum . Inigo Jones had another book of his designs for weapons , hilts , ornaments , scabbards , sword 18 GREAT ENGLISH PAINTERS .
... to have cut himself . Sir Hans Sloane had a book of jewels of his designing which is now in the British Museum . Inigo Jones had another book of his designs for weapons , hilts , ornaments , scabbards , sword 18 GREAT ENGLISH PAINTERS .
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... designs of his successive victories over the Spaniards , and the whole was wrought in tapestry by Francis Speiring . It is a noble and national work . It is divided into ten battles , and contains the portraits of twenty - seven naval ...
... designs of his successive victories over the Spaniards , and the whole was wrought in tapestry by Francis Speiring . It is a noble and national work . It is divided into ten battles , and contains the portraits of twenty - seven naval ...
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... design who is deficient in pictorial fancy , and wants the vivid imagination which calls up , in moving form and breathing expression , the beings with whom he is to people his canvas . By a succession of efforts by slow and repeated ...
... design who is deficient in pictorial fancy , and wants the vivid imagination which calls up , in moving form and breathing expression , the beings with whom he is to people his canvas . By a succession of efforts by slow and repeated ...
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