Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London: Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically, for Immediate Reference, Each Preceded by an Historical & Critical Introd., with a Prefatory Essay on Art, Artists, Collectors, & ConnoisseursSaunders and Otley, 1844 - 413 Seiten |
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Companion to the Most Celebrated Galleries of Art in London Anna Jameson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1844 |
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admirable Agar collection artist background Baring collection beautiful Berghem Bridgewater Gallery Carracci catalogue celebrated character Charles charming Claude colour composition Correggio drawing Duke of Bridgewater Duke of Sutherland Dutch Dyck Earl effect elegant Engraved excellent execution expression exquisite feeling figures finest finished Flemish foreground front full length Geldermeester gentleman George George IV Giorgione grace Grosvenor Gallery Guercino guineas half length hand head holding imitation infant Christ Italian Italy Jan Steen King lady landscape painter Landscape-with Landscape.-A Lansdowne light little picture living in 1843 Lord Francis Egerton Lord Grosvenor Lord Lansdowne Ludovico Carracci Murillo Orleans Gallery Ostade painted painter peasant poetical portrait possession Poussin Prince Purchased by Lord Raphael Rembrandt rich Roman school Rubens scene seated seen sentiment Sir Joshua Smith's Cat sold Spain Spanish studied style taste Teniers tion Titian trees tures Venetian Venetian school Virgin woman Wouvermanns young
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Seite 251 - Then Abigail made haste, and .took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. 19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me ; behold I come after you.
Seite 253 - But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS : for he shall save his people from their sins.
Seite 282 - Ascend your undisputed throne, and graciously bestow upon me some good idea of the Tragic Muse.' I walked up the steps, and instantly seated myself in the attitude in which the Tragic Muse now appears.
Seite 251 - Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him : and he hath requited me evil for good.
Seite 89 - Let him who wishes to be a good painter acquire the design of Rome, Venetian action and Venetian management of shade, the dignified colour of Lombardy (that is, of Leonardo da Vinci), the terrible manner of Michael Angelo, Titian's truth and nature, the sovereign purity of Correggio's style and the just symmetry of a Raphael, the decorum and well-grounded study of Tibaldi, the invention of the learned Primaticcio, and a little of...
Seite 214 - Douglas die ; Of twenty hundred Scottish spears, Scarce fifty-five did fly. Of fifteen hundred Englishmen, Went home but fifty-three ; The rest in Chevy-Chase were slain, Under the greenwood tree.
Seite 7 - A market woman with a hare in her hand, a man blowing a trumpet, or a boy blowing bubbles, a view of the inside or outside of a church, are the subjects of some of their most valuable pictures; but there is still entertainment, even in such pictures; however uninteresting their subjects, there is some pleasure in the contemplation of the truth of the imitation.
Seite 66 - Her temples chaf'd; and her own garments tore, To stanch the streaming blood, and cleanse the gore. Thrice Dido tried to raise her drooping head, And, fainting thrice, fell grov'ling on the bed; Thrice...
Seite 251 - And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
Seite 284 - I began by remarking that the event intended to be commemorated took place on the 13th of September, 1758, in a region of the world unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no such nations, nor heroes in their costume, any longer existed. The subject I have to represent is the conquest of a great province of America by the British troops.