The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, 7. köideVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 |
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... figures , of me- dium size , are light and graceful , her compositions poetical and ingenious , and her expressions , in gene- ral , happy and sprightly . Her colouring was soft and harmonious , and in the best manner of the mo- dern ...
... figures , of me- dium size , are light and graceful , her compositions poetical and ingenious , and her expressions , in gene- ral , happy and sprightly . Her colouring was soft and harmonious , and in the best manner of the mo- dern ...
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... figures ; in those of men she has been less suc- cessful ; they for the most part are wanting in vigour and character , and have the physiognomy of women . The works of Angelica Kauffman have employed the most skilful engravers in ...
... figures ; in those of men she has been less suc- cessful ; they for the most part are wanting in vigour and character , and have the physiognomy of women . The works of Angelica Kauffman have employed the most skilful engravers in ...
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... figure . Those he has introduced in his pictures are below mediocrity , and so sensible was he of his deficiency of genius in that respect , that he frequently committed the task of enlivening his landscapes to a foreign hand . The ...
... figure . Those he has introduced in his pictures are below mediocrity , and so sensible was he of his deficiency of genius in that respect , that he frequently committed the task of enlivening his landscapes to a foreign hand . The ...
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... figure in the House of Peers . His titles were Viscount Nelson , Duke of Bronte . The united parliament voted him a pension of three thousand pound a year . The East India Company made him a present of one thousand eight hundred pounds ...
... figure in the House of Peers . His titles were Viscount Nelson , Duke of Bronte . The united parliament voted him a pension of three thousand pound a year . The East India Company made him a present of one thousand eight hundred pounds ...
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... figures , he not only had the advan- tage of embellishing his own landscapes , but also the landscapes of many other artists , whose works were in the highest estimation . He inserted the figures in the landscapes of Ruysdael , Hobbima ...
... figures , he not only had the advan- tage of embellishing his own landscapes , but also the landscapes of many other artists , whose works were in the highest estimation . He inserted the figures in the landscapes of Ruysdael , Hobbima ...
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