 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of History, and the amenity of Landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised...platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings illustrate his lessons, and his lessons seem to be derived from his paintings. 1 He possessed... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...of the *' invention of history, and the amenity of " landscape. In painting portraits, he ap" peared not to be raised upon that platform, " but to descend to it from a higher sphere. " His paintings illustrate his lessons, and. " his lessons seem to be derived from his " paintings.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings illustrate his lessons, and his lessons seem to be derived from his paintings. He possessed... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...the ^' invention of history, and the amenity of «« landscape. In painting portraits, he ap*' peared not to be raised upon that platform, " but to descend to it from a higher sphere. " His paintings illustrate his lessons, and •' his lessons seem to be derived from his *' paintings.... | |
 | John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 646 pages
...nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised...platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. To be such a painter, he was a profound and penetrating philosopher. In full affluence of foreign and... | |
 | John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 638 pages
...the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to he raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. To be such a painter, he was a profound and penetrating philosopher. In full affluence of foreign and... | |
 | 1811 - 644 pages
...the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to he raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. To be such a painter, he was a profound and penetrating philosopher. In full affluence of foreign and... | |
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend upon it from a higher sphere. His paintings illustrate his lessons, and his lessons seem to be derived... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 638 pages
...nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised...platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. He possessed the theory as perfectly as the practice of his art. To be such a painter, he was a profound... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings illustrate his lessons, and his lessons seem to be derived from his paintings. He possessed... | |
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... fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the... 
