Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists, and notes on other arts; collected by G. Vertue, digested from his MSS.; with additions by J. Dallaway. [With] A catalogue of engravers who have been born, or resided, in England, Volumen 2 |
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Página 442 - Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Página 666 - Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres reassume the land.
Página 652 - ... in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Página 683 - ... produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise.
Página 550 - In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong ; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c.
Página 657 - The son made the journey; and from his notes, letters, and observations, they both at his return compiled this valuable work. As the father was a formal man, with a slow but loud and sonorous voice, and, in truth, with some affectation in his manner...
Página 657 - May 28. 17*5, when he hail passed the 80th year of his age. He left a son and four daughters, one of whom was married to his disciple Mr Hudson, and another to Mr Grigson an attorney. The taste and learning of the son, and the harmony in which he lived with his father, are visible in the joint works they composed. The father in 1719 published two discourses : 1. An Essay on the whole Art of Criticism as it relates to Painting ; 2.
Página 640 - I mean to speak of him in the language of our art. To speak then of Vanbrugh in the language of a painter: he had originality of invention, he understood light and shadow and had great skill in composition.
Página 414 - Whether it was before or after this fine. is not accurately known, that he and Stone buried their joint stock of ready money in Scotland-yard ; but an order being published to encourage the informers of such concealments, and four persons being privy to the spot where the money was hid, it was taken up, and reburied in Lambeth-marsh. Grief, misfortunes, and age, terminated hi* life. He was buried in the church of St. Bonnet's, near Paul's-wharf, where a monument...
Página 535 - Rose's sale 1723, was a head of Snelling, by Cooper, 1644, finely painted, but the hands and drapery poor. Mr. Beale mentions him in one of his pocket-books, for sending presents of colours to his wife in 1654 and 1658; and that in 1678, Mr.