 Taffi, or some of those in Vasari." I observed how little he was paid for what he really did so well; to which Northcote merely replied, " In all things that are not necessary those in the second class must always be miserably paid. Copying pictures is...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 581868Full view - About this book
 | James Northcote, William Hazlitt - Art criticism - 1830 - 352 pages
...must always be miserably paid. Copying pictures is like plain-work among women, it is what any body can do, and, therefore, nothing but a bare living is to be got by it." He added, that the young lady, whose portrait her family was so anxious to have copied, was dead, and... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1834 - 292 pages
...than any scholar that had ever been with hhn ; and added, ' I hope we shall assist each other as long1 as we live.' " Of his employment in the gallery of...when he first began to copy from the living figure in the Academy : his companions were not slow in asserting, that he always eyed the female model with... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 392 pages
...and observed, with a sneer, " Copying pictures is like plain work among women : it is what any body can do, and therefore nothing but a bare living is...when he first began to copy from the living figure in the Academy: his companions were not slow in asserting, that he always eyed the female model with... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1859 - 284 pages
...less necessary to give any detailed account, since he was only allowed to touch subordinate partSj prepare grounds, or make copies for his own benefit...and therefore nothing but a bare living is to be got hy it." He confessed, that in common with many students, he was startled when he first began to copy... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1871 - 592 pages
...necessary those in the second class must always be miserably paid. Copying pictures is like plain-work among women ; it is what anybody can do, and therefore...nothing but a bare living is to be got by it." He added that the young lady, whose portrait her family was so anxious to have copied, was dead, and this... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1871 - 582 pages
...must always be miserably paid. Copying pictures is like plain-work among women ; it is what anylxxly can do, and therefore nothing but a bare living is to be got by it." He added that the young lady, whose portrait her family was so anxious to have copied, was dead, arid... | |
 | American periodicals - 1876 - 848 pages
...was." Copying pictures, though unquestionably useful to him, Northcote detested. "It is," he says, " like plain work among women ; it is what anybody can...and therefore nothing but a bare living is to be got from it." Occasionally he tried to argue with Reynolds, and got put down. Criticising some directions... | |
 | 1876 - 944 pages
...was." Copying pictures, though unquestionably useful to him, Northcote detested. " It is," he says, " like plain work among women ; it is what anybody can...and therefore nothing but a bare living is to be got from it." Occasionally he tried to argue with Reynolds, and got put down. Criticising some directions... | |
 | American periodicals - 1876 - 814 pages
...was." Copying pictures, though unquestionably useful to him, Northcote detested. " It is," he says, " like plain work among women ; it is what anybody can...and therefore nothing but a bare living is to be got from it." Occasionally he tried to argue with Reynolds, and got put down. Criticising some directions... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 546 pages
...must always be miserably paid. Copying pictures is like plain-work among women, it is what any body can do, and, therefore, nothing but a bare living is to be got by it.' He added, that the young lady, whose portrait her family was so anxious to have copied, was dead, and... | |
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