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 xix
... portraits ; and to the different plans in the dis- tances in landscape painting . The importance of an appro- priate back - ground is not always sufficiently considered , ex- cept by artists , who , as Sir Joshua Reynolds observes ...
... portraits ; and to the different plans in the dis- tances in landscape painting . The importance of an appro- priate back - ground is not always sufficiently considered , ex- cept by artists , who , as Sir Joshua Reynolds observes ...
Page xxix
... portraits by Rembrandt it appears like modeling rather than painting . Rubens frequently uses it to advantage ; it is occasionally detrimental in pictures by de Hooge , especially in the car- nations . LINEAR PERSPECTIVE , is a science ...
... portraits by Rembrandt it appears like modeling rather than painting . Rubens frequently uses it to advantage ; it is occasionally detrimental in pictures by de Hooge , especially in the car- nations . LINEAR PERSPECTIVE , is a science ...
Page 45
... portraits by him that remind the observer of his original school , but are very in- ferior to those of Rubens . He returned to Antwerp , and died there in 1674 . THEODORE VAN THULDEN ranks among the best of the scholars of Rubens , and ...
... portraits by him that remind the observer of his original school , but are very in- ferior to those of Rubens . He returned to Antwerp , and died there in 1674 . THEODORE VAN THULDEN ranks among the best of the scholars of Rubens , and ...
Page 54
... portraits of family - groups are evidently in imitation of Gonzales Coques . He died in 1679 . HENDRICK MARTIN ROKES , generally called Zorg , or Sorgh , is supposed by some writers to have been instructed by Teniers , but there is no ...
... portraits of family - groups are evidently in imitation of Gonzales Coques . He died in 1679 . HENDRICK MARTIN ROKES , generally called Zorg , or Sorgh , is supposed by some writers to have been instructed by Teniers , but there is no ...
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... Portraits by Gerard Dou , of the authenticity of which there is no doubt , are in existence to verify the sup- position . The more masculine and daring style which Rem- brandt afterwards adopted , was not congenial to the placid mind of ...
... Portraits by Gerard Dou , of the authenticity of which there is no doubt , are in existence to verify the sup- position . The more masculine and daring style which Rem- brandt afterwards adopted , was not congenial to the placid mind of ...
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