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 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...that whole which would be imperfect without them. To every kind of painting this rule may be applied. Even in portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the...in observing the exact similitude of every feature. Thus figures must have a ground whereG 2 on to stand ; they must be cloathed ; there must be a back-ground;... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...that whole which would be imperfect without them. To every kind of painting this rule may be applied. Even in portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the...in observing the exact similitude of every feature. Thus figures must have a ground whereon to stand ; they must be clothed ; there must be a back-ground... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...that whole which would be imperfect without them. To every kind of painting this rule may be applied. Even in portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the...in observing the exact similitude of every feature. Thus figures must have a ground whereon to stand ; they must be clothed ; there must be a back-ground... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...that whole which would be imperfect without them. To every kind of painting this rule may be applied. Even in portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the...more in taking the general air, than in observing the e^act similitude of every feature. Thus figures must have a ground whereon to stand ; they must be... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...endure. Pope. He delineates and gives us the portraiture of a perfect orator. Baiter. In portrait*, the grace, and, we may add. the likeness, consists more in taking the general air, than in ubserving the exact similitude of every feature. Rfynlildt. PORTRAIT PAINTING. See PAINTING. PORTSMOUTH,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...that whole which would be imperfect without them. To every kind of painting this rule may be applied. Even in portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the...in observing the exact similitude of every feature. Thus figures must have a ground whereon to stand ; they must be clothed ; there must be a background... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Artists - 1824 - 318 pages
...that whole which would be imperfect without them. To every kind of painting this rule may be applied. Even in portraits, the grace, and we may add, the...in observing the exact similitude of every feature. Thus figures must have a ground whereon to stand ; they must be 3 The nature of the subject, and the... | |
 | 1846 - 352 pages
...statue of the old King, with tin hat and pig-tail complete. " Even in portraits," says Sir Joshua, " the grace, and we may add, the likeness, consists...observing the exact similitude of every feature;" — a truth strikingly exemplified in the photographic likenesses, which, however critically correct,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...that whole which would be imperfect without them. To every kind of painting this rale may be applied. Even in portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the...in observing the exact similitude of every feature. Thus figures must have a ground whereon to stand ; they must be clothed ; there must be a background... | |
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