 | Sir Walter Armstrong - 1904 - 404 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... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1904 - 268 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 /. Reynolds. Sir Joshua said, " though... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 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...cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they SEBASTIAN BOURDON RETURN OF THE ARK NATIONAL GALLEKT THE picture here mentioned was actually in Reynolds'... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1909 - 518 Seiten
...Fourteenth Discourse, that * .i sti-ady attention to the general effect takes up more timo, uud if much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of...finishing or smoothness, without such attention." > almost be mistaken for the living individuals represented. But "here the range of the painter terminates... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 Seiten
...his works, may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed that his pictures not given. Destiny, — • for so in our ignorance we must speak, president, however, weakens this vindication a little, when, in the succeeding sentences, he says,... | |
 | John Barrell - 1995 - 384 Seiten
...private — is implicit in Reynolds's approval of Gainsborough's 'eager desire . . . that his pictures, at the Exhibition, should be seen near, as well as at a distance' (258). That desire proceeds from a proper disdain for the notion that painting is an art of mere imitation... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 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 at a distance. 9 This passage demonstrates the full extent of Reynolds's uncertainty as well as his desire to be just;... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 Seiten
...hest works, cannot alwavs he imputed to negligence. However thev mav appear to superficial ohservers, painters know very well that a steady attention to...general effect, takes up more time, and is much more lahorious to the mind, than any mode ot high finishing or smoothness, without such attention. His handling,... | |
 | Julius Bryant, London. Kenwood. Iveagh Bequest - 2003 - 456 Seiten
...works, I think may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he expressed, that his pictures, at the Exhibition, should be seen near, as well as at a distance.10 Provenance Brisco family; bt. from Sir Musgrave Horton Brisco, 4th Bt. (1833- 1 yog), by... | |
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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... 
