 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 320 pagini
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 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pagini
...an apothecary's carriage ?" By what course of study he attained his skill in art, Reynolds has hot condescended to tell us ; but of many minor matters...their productions at his house, and were rewarded by hia approbation, and occasionally by their portraits. Johnson was a frequent and a welcome guest: though... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pagini
...for the opening of his professional career. We may add to the preceding details, that " Sir Joshua rose early, breakfasted at nine, entered his study...four, then dressed, and gave the evening to company." On removing to Leicester Square Reynolds set up a handsome carriage, embellished in the ornamental... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1873 - 288 pagini
...about 15 ft. high. The window was small and square, and the sill 9 ft. from the floor. His sitters' chair moved on castors, and stood above the floor...four, then dressed, and gave the evening to company." Then came " the rough abundance " of his dinners, and the noisy hilarity of his guests ; " for," says... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 pagini
...too showy. ' What ! ' exclaimed the painter, 'would you have one like an apothecary's carriage ? ' His table was now elegantly furnished, and round it...occasionally by their portraits. Johnson was a frequent and welcome guest : though the sage was not seldom sarcastic and overbearing, he was endured and caressed,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 pagini
...chair moved on casters, and stood above the floor about a foot and a half. He held his palettes by the handle, and the sticks of his brushes were eighteen...four, then dressed, and gave the evening to company." — Allan Cunningham. Livei of the Painters. His dinner parties, "of a cordial intercourse between... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 pagini
...chair moved on casters, and stood above the floor about a foot and a half. He held his palettes by the handle, and the sticks of his brushes were eighteen...four, then dressed, and gave the evening to company." — Allan Cunningham. Lives of the Painters. His dinner parties, " of a cordial intercourse between... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 256 pagini
...too showy. ' What ! ' exclaimed the painter, 'would you have one like an apothecary's carriage ? ' His table was now elegantly furnished, and round it...occasionally by their portraits. Johnson was a frequent and welcome guest : though the sage was not seldom sarcastic and overbearing, he was endured and caressed,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 pagini
...from the floor. His sitter's chair moved on castors, and stood above the floor a foot and-a-half ; he held his palettes by a handle, and the sticks of...portraits. Johnson was a frequent and a welcome guest : Percy was there too, with his ancient ballads and his old English lore ; Goldsmith, with his latent... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 pagini
...chair moved on castors, and stood above the floor about a foot and a half. He held his palettes by the handle, and the sticks of his brushes were eighteen...four, then dressed, and gave the evening to company." The first London residence of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the pupil and successor of Sir Joshua Reynolds as... | |
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His sitter's chair moved on castors, and stood above the floor a foot and a half ; he held his palettes by a handle, and the sticks of his brushes were eighteen inches long. He wrought standing, and with great celerity. He rose early, breakfasted at nine,... 
