A Dictionary of Painters of Miniatures (1525-1850): With Some Account of Exhibitions, Collections, Sales, Etc., Pertaining to Them |
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Page vi - I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.
Page 40 - Mr. Reeves and his wife whom I never saw before. And there we dined; a good dinner, and company that pleased me mightily, being all eminent men in their way. Spent all the afternoon in talk and mirth, and in the evening parted; and then my wife and I to walk in the garden, and so home to supper, Mrs.
Page 195 - The powers required for copying a picture, And those for copying Dame Nature ; Alas, a much more arduous matter ! So don't expose thyself, but mind my stricture.
Page 68 - ... England circ. 1742-45, and from that date until 1770, he produced a large number of medals, which shew him to have been " a skiltul and industrious worker ".In 1771 he was appointed Assistantengraver at the Royal Mint, a post which he filled until his death, when his son, Lewis Pingo, succeeded him. In 1763, he was a member of the Free Society of Artists. He worked for Thomas Hollis, also for Wedgwood in 1769, modelling representations of the battles of Plassey and Pondicherry for him. He further...
Page 18 - I do not speak of the spurious Holbein,' for though the veriest tyro might well be ashamed of such a purchase, it would have been a judicious addition had it been genuine , so was the John Bellini, so was the Van Eyck ; but the mighty Venetian master, who alone of all the painters of Italy united purity of religious aim with perfection of artistical power...
Page 84 - Invented a mode of painting in miniature to which he gave the name of Eludoric.
Page 124 - Among the Harleian MSS. is a letter from the Duchess of Buckingham to her lord in Spain : ' I pray you, ' if you have any idle time, sit to Gerbier for your picture, that I may 'have it well done in little.'2 Bishop Tanner had a MS.
Page 156 - She has made a colored drawing of our Saviour, for which I gave her a florin [forty cents]. It is wonderful that a female should be able to do such work.
Page 154 - After gaining much reputation and money, he returned to Italy, first to Rome, and then for retirement to Florence, where he died in 1788. In his pictures the landscape and the figures are of an equal importance.
Page 259 - ... and the Royal Academy. In 1838, he was made an Associate of the Academy, and in 1839 became a full member, and was knighted. He died in London in 1860. Ross was one of the most successful miniature painters of the day. He numbered among his sitters, her Majesty the Queen, the late Prince Consort, the King and Queen of the Belgians, the King and Queen of Portugal, and Prince Louis Napoleon. Though miniature painting was his profession, Ross also executed several creditable historical works in...