| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished .. works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 pages
...not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
| John Smith - Painters - 1829 - 566 pages
...and beauty. Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his Journey through Flanders, observes, " that few pictures by Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius ; all the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. The latter picture (he says) has more... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures LS of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1835 - 514 pages
...contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures L 3 of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - Painters - 1846 - 506 pages
...contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent; few pictures L 3 of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pages
...the Romaus and Sabines. " Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genins." — Sir Joshua Reynolds. — VANDYCK : the Virgin Mary, with the Child upon her lap, and Joseph... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 390 pages
...Romans and Sabines. " Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higljer idea of his genins." — Sir Joshua Reynolds. — VANDYCK : the Virgin Mary, with the Child... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey - Art - 1852 - 512 pages
...not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished works, give a higher idea of his genius. All the parts are more determined than is usual in sketches. They are what I apprehend he put into... | |
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