Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts, Band 1J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1782 - 316 Seiten |
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Seite 134 - A great part of these drawings," observes Walpole, " are exceedingly fine, and in one respect preferable to the finished pictures, as they are drawn in a bold and free manner. And though they have little more than the outline, being drawn with chalk upon paper stained of a flesh colour, and scarce shaded at all, there is a strength and vivacity in them equal to the most perfect portraits.
Seite 221 - A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster fardingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth.
Seite vii - A Poet or a Painter may want an equipage or a villa, by wanting protection; they can always afford to buy ink and paper, colours and pencil. Mr. Hogarth has received no honours, but universal admiration.
Seite 66 - ... that may be had in England, and of the finest colours of Blew, Yellow, Red, Purpure, Sanguine and Violet, and of all other colours that shall be most necessary and best to make rich and embellish the matters Images and stories...
Seite 258 - Nicholas Hilliard, gentleman, our principal drawer of small portraits, and embosser of our medals in gold, in respect of his extraordinary skill in drawing, graving, and imprinting, &c. we have granted unto him our special licence for twelve years, to invent, make, grave and imprint any pictures of our image or our royal family, &c.
Seite 212 - His portrait, painted by himself, is in the chamber of painters at Florence, with which the great duke, who bought it, was so pleased, that he ordered a cartel with some Greek verses, written by Antonio Maria Salvini, his Greek professor, to be affixed to the frame. Salvini translated them into Italian and into the following Latin :
Seite 77 - If even, made of timber, and stained cloth ; item, hell, made of ' timber and iron work, with devils, the number, thirteen ; item, four 'knights armed, keeping the sepulchre, with their weapons in their ' hands, that is to say, two spears, two axes, two paves...
Seite 112 - ... not spoil. Here he is rather that single, cruel judge, whom one knows not how to hate, and who, in the vigour of abilities, of knowledge, and good humour, persecuted others in defence of superstitions that he himself had exposed...
Seite 270 - Isaac Oliver and John de Cretz, very famous for their painting. So as Greece had moreover their painters, so in England we have also these, William and Francis Segar brethren, Thomas and John Bettes, Lockie, Lyne, Peake, Peter Cole, Arnolde, Marcus (Garrard) Jacques de Bruy, Cornelius, Peter Golchi, Hieronimo (de Bye) and Peter Vandevelde.