...decided and grand ; the female lovely : his figures resembled the antique — the limbs were elegantly and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with or contrasting the outline' and chiaro-scuro. Few artists, since the fifteenth century, have been able...

...decided and grand ; the female lovely : his figures resembled the antique — the limbs were elegantly and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with or contrasting the outline and chiaro-scuro. Few artists, since the fifteenth century, have been able...

...heads were various — the male were decided and grand ; the female, lovely : his figures resembled the antique — the limbs were elegant and finely formed...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with or contrasting the outline and chiara-oscuro. Few artists, since the fifteenth century, have been able...

...showy, not to say meretricious colour. " His figures," writes his firm friend, Flaxman, " resembled the antique ; the limbs were elegant and finely formed, his drapery was well understood." Romney has been represented at Kensington by some thirty-six portraits — good, bad, and indifferent....

...heads were various ; the male were decided and grand, the female lovely ; his figures resembled the antique; the limbs were elegant and finely formed: his drapery was well understood. Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches."*...

...heads were various ; the male were decided and grand, the female lovely ; his figures resembled the antique ; the limbs were elegant and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood. Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches."*...

...decided and grand ; the female lovely : his figures resembled the antique — the limbs were elegantly and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with or contrasting the outline and chiaro-scuro. Few artists, since the fifteenth century, have been able...

...decided and grand ; the female lovely : his figures resembled the antique — the limbs were elegantly and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with or contrasting the outline and chiaro-scuro. Few artists, since the fifteenth century, have been able...

...possible, rejecting all unnecessary episode, or trivial ornament. His MRS. CROUCH figures resembled the antique ; the limbs were elegant and finely formed...the figure into a mass with one or two deep folds, or by its adhesion and transparency discovering the form of the figure, the lines of which were finely...

...neglected." Referring to Romney's treatment of drapery, Flaxman, a consummate judge, writes that it was " well understood, either forming the figure into...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with or contrasting the outline and chiaro-oscuro : he was so passionately fond of Grecian sculpture, that...