 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...part of the face overshadowed : for colouring and force nothing can exceed it. A portrait by Holbein ; admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely...figure, this portrait might have stood in competition HA with the works of the best portraitpainters. On it is written, — " Henry Chessman, 1533." A whole-length... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...of the face overshadowed : for colouring and force nothing can exceed it. A. portrait by Holbein ; admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely...figure, this portrait might have stood in competition HA«C*. with the works of the best portraitpainters. On it is written, — " Henry Chessman, 1533."... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art, English - 1819 - 446 pages
...of the face overshadowed : for colouring and force nothing can exceed it. i A portrait by Holbein ; admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely...figure, this portrait might have stood in competition HAGUE. with the works of the best portraitpainters. On it is written, — " Henry Chessman, 1533."... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1835 - 514 pages
...face overshadowed : for colouring and force nothing can exceed it. HOLBEIN — A portrait by Holbein ; admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely...have stood in competition with the works of the best portrait painters. On it is written, — " Henry Chessman, 1533." HENRY POTT. — A whole-length portrait... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...overshadowed : for colouring and force nothing can exceed it. HOLBEIN. — A portrait by Holbein ; admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely well coloured. The blue fiat ground which is behind the head gives a general effect of dryness to the picture : had the ground... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Belgium - 1838 - 612 pages
...— Holbein: (290.) A small portrait of a man with a hawk ; on it is written Henry Cheseman, 1533. " Admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely well coloured. The blue flat ground behind the head gives a general effect of dryness to the picture : had the ground been varied, and... | |
 | Europe - 1838 - 582 pages
...— Holbein: (290.) A small portrait of a man with a hawk ; on it is written Henry Cheseman, 1533. " Admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely well coloured. The blue flat ground behind the head gives a general effect of dryness to the picture : had the ground been varied, and... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1839 - 574 pages
...— Holbein: (290.) A small portrait of a man with a hawk ; on it is written Henry Cheseman, 1533. " Admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely well coloured. The blue flat grouifd behind the head gives a general effect of dryness to the picture : had the ground been varied,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Painters - 1846 - 506 pages
...face overshadowed : for colouring and force nothing can exceed it. HOLBEIN.—A portrait by Holbein : admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely...have stood in competition with the works of the best portrait painters. On it is written,—" Henry Chessman, 1533." HENRY POTT.—A whole-length portrait... | |
 | Michael Bryan - 1849 - 1000 pages
...VIII. This portrait, or a repetition of it, is noticed by Sir J. Reynolds, (Works, v. ii. p. 846,) at the Hague, as being"" admirable for its truth and...which is behind the head, gives a general effect of drynese to the picture : had the ground been varied, and made to harmonize more with the figure, this... | |
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A portrait by Holbein ; admirable for its truth and precision, and extremely well coloured. The blue flat ground which is behind the head gives a general effect of dryness to the picture : had the ground been varied, and made to harmonise more with the... 
