 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...author. " A steady attention to the general effect, (as he has observed in his fourteenth Discourse,) takes up more time, and is much more laborious to...finishing, or smoothness, without such attention." Again in the eleventh Discourse; " There is nothing in our art which enforces such con* tinued exertion... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...think m?y be inferred from the eager 'desire which we know he always expressed, that his pictures, at the Exhibition, should be seen near, as well as at a distance. The sljghtness which we see in his best works, cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they may... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...attention to the general effect, (as he has observed in his fourteenth Discourse,) takes up more time, end is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode...finishing, or smoothness, without such attention.*' Again in the eleventh Discourse : " There is nothing in our art which enforces such continued exertion... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 430 pages
..._ " A steady attention to the general effect, (as he has ob-' served in his fourteenth Discourse,) takes up more time, ' and is much more laborious to the mind, than any inotk of high (inithing, or smoothness, without such attention." Again in the .eleventh Discourse :... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art, English - 1819 - 446 pages
...I think may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed, that his pictures, at the Exhibition, should be seen near, as well as...we see in his best works cannot always be imputed td negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very well that a steady... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...author. " A steady attention to the general effect, (as he has observed in his fourteenth Discourse,) takes up more time, and is much more laborious to...finishing, or smoothness, without such attention." Again in the eleventh Discourse : " There is nothing in our art which enforces such continued exertion... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...author. " A steady attention to the general effect, (as he has observed in his fourteenth Discourse,) takes up more time, and is much more laborious to...finishing, or smoothness, without such attention." Again in the eleventh Discourse : " There is nothing in our art which enforces such continued exertion... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 pages
...I think may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed that his pictures, at the exhibition, should be seen near, as well as...to the general effect, takes up more time, and is much'more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high liuisliing, or smoothness, without such attention.... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1832 - 324 pages
...his works may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed that his pictures at the exhibition should be seen near as well as at a distance." The President, however, weakens this vindication a little, when, in the succeeding sentences, he says,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...he said to be honourable and advantageous. * Sir Joshua has observed, in his Fourteenth Discourse, that " a steady attention to the general effect takes...finishing or smoothness, without such attention." almost be mistaken for the living individuals represented. But here the range of the painter terminates:... | |
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That Gainsborough himself considered this peculiarity in his manner, and the power it possesses of exciting surprise, as a beauty in his works, I think may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed, that his pic-- tures, at the... 
