 | Nathaniel Neal Solly - 1873 - 448 Seiten
...acknowledging the full effect of diligence under the appearance of chance and hasty negligence. However they appear to superficial observers, painters know very...attention to the general effect takes up more time and is more laborious to the mind than any mode of high finish or smoothness without much attention. Whatever... | |
 | 1875 - 486 Seiten
...works, may be inferred from the eager desire, which we know he always expressed, that his pictures, at the exhibition, should be seen near as well as at a distance. There is a charm about the children running wild in the Children of Gainsborough, Reynolds, and old... | |
 | Miss Ludlow - 1879 - 494 Seiten
...works, may be inferred from the eager desire, which we know he always expressed, that his pictures, at the exhibition, should be seen near as well as at a distance. There is a charm about the children running wild in tns Children of Gainsborough, Reynolds, and old... | |
 | John Sherer - 1879 - 322 Seiten
...works, may be inferred from the eager desire which, we know, he always expressed, that his pictures at the Exhibition should be seen near as well as at a distance." These ingenuous criticisms, whilst trying to do justice to Gainsborough, are, at the same time, evincing... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 Seiten
...his works, may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed that his pictures at the exhibition should be seen near as well as at a distance." The president, however, weakens this vindication a little, when, in the succeeding sentences, he says,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 Seiten
...Kettle called Pot — You know what. EAGLES NO FLY-CATCHERS. The slightness we see in Gainsborough's works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However...much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high-finishing or smoothness, without such attention. Sir J. Reynolds. Sir Joshua said, " though Johnson... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 Seiten
...I think may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed, that his pictures, at the Exhibition, should be seen near, as well as...works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However the}- may appear to superficial obscrvero, painters know very well that a steady attention to the general... | |
 | Robert Burn - 1888 - 340 Seiten
...Greek sculptors. On the difficulty of producing a general effect in art, Sir J. Reynolds says : — " A steady attention to the general effect takes up...high finishing or smoothness without such attention." Mr. Parker says : — art — the temples, the poems, and plays, the pictures and statues, — was... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 Seiten
...called Pot — You know what. EAGLES NO FLY-CATCHERS. (XC) THE slightness we see in Gainsborough's works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However...much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high-finishing or smoothness, without such attention. Sir Joshua said, " though Johnson did not write... | |
 | Sir Walter Armstrong - 1904 - 422 Seiten
...refuse acknowledging the full effect of diligence, under the appearance of chance and hasty negligence The slightness which we see in his best works cannot...time, and is much more laborious to the mind, than any.mode of high finishing, or smoothness, without such attention. His handling, the manner of leaving... | |
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That Gainsborough himself considered this peculiarity in his manner, and the power it possesses of exciting surprise, as a beauty in his works, I think may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed, that his pic-- tures, at the... 
