A Classified Synopsis of the Principal Painters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, Their Scholars, Imitators, and Analogists: Including an Account of Some of the Early German Masters, Connected with Those of Flanders and HollandH.G. Bohn, 1855 - 416 pages |
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Page xiii
... English National Gallery should be distinguished only by its poverty . It may boast of a sufficient number of pictures by Rembrandt and Rubens , a capital specimen of Cuyp , also of Vander Neer , and a small portrait of Gerard Dou ; a ...
... English National Gallery should be distinguished only by its poverty . It may boast of a sufficient number of pictures by Rembrandt and Rubens , a capital specimen of Cuyp , also of Vander Neer , and a small portrait of Gerard Dou ; a ...
Page xiv
... English money . In addition to these prices the purchasers had to pay 5 per cent . towards sale expenses . Such being the case , it cannot be expected that there will be any great accession of fine Dutch pictures to the National Gallery ...
... English money . In addition to these prices the purchasers had to pay 5 per cent . towards sale expenses . Such being the case , it cannot be expected that there will be any great accession of fine Dutch pictures to the National Gallery ...
Page xv
... English language , and if ap- proved may embrace a wider scope . It was intended originally to notice only the Dutch and Flemish masters , whose works are most frequently in request , but it was found that several of the early and most ...
... English language , and if ap- proved may embrace a wider scope . It was intended originally to notice only the Dutch and Flemish masters , whose works are most frequently in request , but it was found that several of the early and most ...
Page xvi
... English School of Painting are to be practically improved , or the public taste to be corrected and refined , by studying the executive part of pictures produced when the arts were emerging from a state of barbarism . The compact form ...
... English School of Painting are to be practically improved , or the public taste to be corrected and refined , by studying the executive part of pictures produced when the arts were emerging from a state of barbarism . The compact form ...
Page xx
... English term Still life . BREADTH . Applied to composition , design , or the dis- tribution of light and shadow , breadth conveys a certain idea of greatness , which is in direct opposition to the frivolous and the mean . Breadth ...
... English term Still life . BREADTH . Applied to composition , design , or the dis- tribution of light and shadow , breadth conveys a certain idea of greatness , which is in direct opposition to the frivolous and the mean . Breadth ...
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