 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS was, indeed, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the...elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...very many " accounts, one of the most memorable men «' of his time. He was the first English*' man, who added the praise of the elegant " arts to the other glories of his country. " In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy ''* ' invention, and in the richness and harmony 41 of... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1803 - 582 pages
...REYNOLDS was the great and unrivalled master. " This celebrated painter," says an eloquent writer, " was the first Englishman who added the praise of the...elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time : — he was the first Englishman who added the praise of the...elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 432 pages
...Reynolds was the great and unrivalled master. " This cekbrated painter/' says an eloquent writer, " was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the ojher glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy inven. tion, and in the richness... | |
 | Biography - 1808 - 388 pages
...Burke. " Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the...elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring,... | |
 | Biography - 1808 - 540 pages
...** Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on тегу many accounts, one of the most memorable men of hie time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the...elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...on very many " accounts, one of the most memorable mea " of his time. He was the first English" man, who added the praise of the elegant " arts to the other glories of his country. " In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy '' invention, and in the richness and harmony «' of colouring,... | |
 | John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 638 pages
...Dutch and Italian Painters. For a list of plates engraved after his drawings, see vol. LIV. p. 18*. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the...elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring,... | |
 | 1811 - 644 pages
...Dutch and Italian Painters. For a list of plates engraved after his drawings, see vol. LIV. p. 18*. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the...elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring,... | |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds was on very many accounts one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. 
