 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...1792. " Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of...portrait he went beyond them; for he communicated to that department of the art, in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pages
...deserved. Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of...he went beyond them ; for he communicated to that department of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1845 - 328 pages
...deserved. " Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of...great masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he was beyond them; for he communicated to that description of the art, in which English artists are the... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...Burke. " Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of...equal to the great masters of the renowned ages. In portraits he went beyond them : for he communicated to that description of the art in which English... | |
 | 1846 - 316 pages
...to be told. " Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of...and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equa" to the greatest masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them ; for he communicated... | |
 | 1847 - 296 pages
...well deserved. Sir J. Reynolds, was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of...other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in falcility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...Jotfhua Reynold* was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time He was the lirst Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glorii.-s of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness... | |
 | James R. Hobbes - 1849 - 552 pages
...soon afterwards, having lost the sight of one eye, he entirely relinquished painting: he died 1792. " In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention,...equal to the great masters of the renowned ages — in portraits he went beyond them." REYNOSO (Don Antonio Garcia), born in Andalusia, 1623 ; studied under... | |
 | James R. Hobbes - 1849 - 282 pages
...Kneller, were all thrown into the shade by his works ; in taste, in facility, in happy invention, and in harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages ; in portraits he went beyond them: he died in 179'2. BARRON (Hugh), studied under Sir Joshua Reynolds,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 428 pages
...in which Burke has commemorated his friend Sir Joshua Eeynolds, when he says, — " He was the first who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country." * An ingenious English writer, who sees Art at once with the eye of taste and humanity, and whom I... | |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. 
