Anecdotes of Painting in England;: With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts;

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J. Dodsley, 1786
 

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Página 131 - A great part of these drawings," observes Walpole, " are exceedingly fine, and in one respect preferable to the finished pictures, as they are drawn in a bold and free manner. And though they have little more than the outline, being drawn with chalk upon paper stained of a flesh colour, and scarce shaded at all, there is a strength and vivacity in them equal to the most perfect portraits.
Página 270 - Isaac Oliver and John de Cretz, very famous for their painting. So as Greece had moreover their painters, so in England we have also these, William and Francis Segar brethren, Thomas and John Bettes, Lockie, Lyne, Peake, Peter Cole, Arnolde, Marcus (Garrard) Jacques de Bruy, Cornelius, Peter Golchi, Hieronimo (de Bye) and Peter Vandevelde.
Página i - ... expect. In Italy, where the art of painting has been carried to an amazing degree of perfection, the lives of the painters have been written in numberless volumes, alone sufficient to compose a little library. Every picture of every considerable master is minutely described. Those biographers treat of the works of Raphael and Correggio with as much importance as commentators speak of Horace or Virgil ; and indulging themselves in the inflated...
Página 281 - In the same house is a whole length of him by himself, drawing on a paper : his sword and pallet hung up, and a half length of his mother by him. At Redgrave-hall, in Suffolk, were two more pieces by the same hand, which afterwards passed into the possession of Mr. Rowland Holt; the one, Ceres with fruit and flowers; the other, Hercules and the Hydra.
Página 233 - He wrote, besides the Breviary of Health, A Dietary of Health, the Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham — a book extremely admired, and often reprinted in that age. A right pleasant and merry history of the
Página vii - A Poet or a Painter may want an equipage or a villa, by wanting protection; they can always afford to buy ink and paper, colours and pencil. Mr. Hogarth has received no honours, but universal admiration.
Página 210 - He made various portraits of the queen ; 3 one was sent by Cardinal Granvelle to the emperor, who ordered two hundred florins to Antonio. He remained in England during the reign of Mary, and was much employed; but having neglected, as is frequent, to write the names on the portraits he drew, most of them have lost part of their value, by our ignorance of the persons represented.
Página 172 - as we imagine ourselves arrived at higher perfection in the arts, it would not be easy for a master of a college now to go into St. Margaret's parish or Southwark, and bespeak the roof of such a chapel as that of King's College, and a dozen or two of windows so admirably drawn, and order them to be sent home by such a day, as if he was bespeaking a chequered pavement or a church Bible.
Página 167 - Cockfield-hall, in Yoxford, in Suffolk, drew the portraits of Henry VII. Henry VIII. Queen Catherine, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Sir Anthony Wingfield, Sir Robert Wingfield, his lady, and seven or eight sons, all remaining there lately.

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