 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 388 pages
...lady ! it is impossible to add any thing to its advantage."' But Sir Joshua was not satisfied, and answered with much feeling, " It does not please me...portrait, and therefore cannot think it finished." Indeed, Sir Joshua was not at all liable to be misled, or even moved, by either praise or flattery... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor - Painters - 1865 - 676 pages
...this lady ! it is impossible to add anything to its advantage. But Sir Joshua was not satisfied, and answered with much feeling, ' It does not please me...portrait, and therefore cannot think it finished.' " l 1 There cannot be a better illustration of the spirit in which Allan Cunningham wrote of Reynolds... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 586 pages
...impossible to add anything to its advantage.' ' It does not please me yet,' replied Sir Joshua ; ' there is a sweetness of expression in the original...give in the portrait, and therefore cannot think it finished.'t Such was his sense of his deficiencies, * Reynolds was not the only artist who suffered... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 604 pages
...impossible to add anything to its advantage.' ' It does not please me yet,' replied Sir Joshua ; ' there is a sweetness of expression in the original...give in the portrait, and therefore cannot think it finished.'t Such was his sense- of his deficiencies, * Reynolds was not the only artist who suffered... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 582 pages
...It does not please me yet, replied Sir Joshua; ' there is a sweetness of expression in tiiroriginal which I have not been able to give in the portrait, and therefore cannot think it finished.''!' Such was his sense of Lis deficiencies, * Reynolds was not the only artist who suffered from these... | |
 | Burlington Fine Arts Club - Painting - 1871 - 600 pages
...impossible to add anything to its advantage." But that Sir Joshua was not satisfied, and replied, " It does not please me yet ; there is a sweetness of...which I have not been able to give in the portrait, I therefore cannot think it finished." 17 Portrait of OHAELES JAMES IOX. EABL OF LEICESTER, EG Sir... | |
 | Burlington Fine Arts Club - Painting - 1871 - 600 pages
...impossible to add anything to its advantage." But that Sir Joshua was not satisfied, and replied, " It does not please me yet ; there is a sweetness of...which I have not been able to give in the portrait, I therefore cannot think it finished." 17 Portrait of OHAELES JAMES ГОХ. EARL OF LEICESTER, EG Sir... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Artists - 1879 - 196 pages
...made of this lady ! it is impossible to add any thing to its advantage." But Sir Joshua replied, " It does not please me yet : there is a sweetness of...able to give in the portrait, and therefore cannot thinlc it finished." Northcote gives precious details as to his master's appearance : " In his stature... | |
 | TIMOTHY COLE - 1902 - 454 pages
...have made of this lady ! It is impossible to add anything to its advantage." To one such he replied with much feeling : " It does not please me yet; there...expression in the original which I have not been able to impart to the portrait, and I cannot therefore think it finished," an expression that must voice the... | |
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It does not please me yet ; there is a sweetness of expression in the original which I have not been able to give in the portrait, and therefore cannot think it finished. 