 Wilson, without so great a feature, had a more varied and more proportionate power: he observed nature in all her appearances, and had a characteristic touch for all her forms. But though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, few...  Letters on the scenery of Wales - Side 77av Robert Hasell Newell - 1821 - 80 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 sider
...given by Mr. Fuseli : " Claude, little above mediocrity in all other branches of landscapepainting, had one great prerogative, sublimity : but his powers...two introduced or handled with greater infelicity." Mr. F. proceeds, WIL " Wilson is now numbered with the classics of the art, though little more than... | |
 | 1817 - 552 sider
...their style. "Claude," he adds, "little above mediocrity in all other branches of landscape-painting, had one great prerogative, sublimity ; but his powers...introduced or handled with greater infelicity : treated by Claude or Wilson, St. Ursula with her Virgins, and ./Eneas Landing, Niobe with her family, or Ceyx... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 556 sider
...with the sun, he could only be serenely sublime or romantic. Wilson, without so great a feature, bad a more varied and more proportionate power : he observed...introduced or handled with greater infelicity : treated by Claude or Wilson, St. Ursula with her Virgins, and iEneas Landing, Niobe with her family, or Ceyx drawn... | |
 | 1820 - 746 sider
...her forms. But in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, he has seldom been equalled ; his grandeur is oftener allied to terror, bustle and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity. " Wilson,'1 says Mr Fuseli, " is now numbered with the classics of the art, and though little more... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 sider
...her forms. But in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, he has seldom been equalled ; his grandeur is oftener allied to terror, bustle and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity. " Wilson,1' says Mr Fuseli, " is now numbered with the classics of the art, and though little more... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 sider
...touch for all her forms. But, though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights few have equalled and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is oftener...and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity. He is now numbered with the classics of the art, though little more than the fifth part of a century... | |
 | 1830 - 658 sider
...touch for all her forms. But, though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights few have equalled and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is oftener...terror, bustle, and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity.'—vol. 1. p. 202. Of Wilson's enthusiastic ardour in his profession, the following anecdote... | |
 | 1831 - 552 sider
...touch for all her forms. But though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, few have equalled, and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is...and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity. He is now numbered with the classics of the art, though little more than the fifth part of a century*... | |
 | 1834 - 614 sider
...freshness and silent evening lights, few equalled, and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is offener allied to terror, bustle, and convulsion, than to...two introduced or handled with greater infelicity." It is hardly fair, however, to draw a parallel between two artists whose styles, it is admitted, were... | |
 | 1834 - 730 sider
...the prince of Italian landscape painters; "Claude, little above mediocrity in all other branches of landscape painting, had one great prerogative —...two introduced or handled with greater infelicity." It is hardly fair, however, to draw a parallel between two artists whose styles, it is admitted, were... | |
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