LITERARY WORKS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR; WITH REMARKS ON HIS PROFESSIONAL CHARACTER, ILLUSTRATIVE OF HIS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. BY HENRY WILLIAM BEECHEY. IN TWO VOLUMES. Rew and Improved Edition. VOL. II. LONDON: CONTENTS Page On the removal of the Royal Academy to Somerset-Place. — The advantages to Society from cultivating intellectual Sculpture : Has but one style.-Its objects, form, and cha- racter.-Ineffectual attempts of the modern Sculptors to Particular methods of study of little consequence-Little of the art can be taught.-Love of method often a love of idleness.—Pittori improvvisatori apt to be careless and in- correct; seldom original and striking :- This proceeds from their not studying the works of other masters..., 38 Art not merely imitation, but under the direction of the Imagination.-In what manner Poetry, Painting, Acting, The President takes leave of the Academy.--A Review of The IDLER, No. 76. False Criticisms on Painting..... 121 No. 79. The Grand Style of Painting.. 127 No. 82. The true idea of Beauty... Journey to Flanders and Holland The Art of Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, translated into English Verse by the Rev. William Mason Annotations on Du Fresnoy's Poems... Du Fresnoy's Sentiments on the principal Painters of the two Parallel between Poetry and Painting. Epistle to Mr. Jervas, with Fresnoy's Art of Painting, trans- Chronological List of Painters, with short characters and an account of their respective births and deaths Alphabetical List of Painters, referring to the former...... 457 DISCOURSE IX Delivered at the Opening of the Royal Academy, in Somerset Place, October 16. 1780. ON THE REMOVAL OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY TO SOMERSET PLACE. —THE ADVANTAGES TO SOCIETY FROM CULTIVATING INTELLECTUAL PLEASURE. GENTLEMEN, The honour which the Arts acquire by being permitted to take possession of this noble habitation, is one of the most considerable of the many instances we have received of His Majesty's protection; and the strongest proof of his desire to make the Academy respectable. Nothing has been left undone, that might contribute to excite our pursuit, or to reward our attainments. We have already the happiness of seeing the Arts in a state to which they never before arrived in this nation. This Building, in which we are now assembled, will remain to many future ages an illustrious specimen of the Architect's* abilities. It is our duty to endeavour that those who gaze with wonder at the structure, may not be disappointed when they visit the apartments. It will be no small addition to the glory which this nation has already acquired from having given birth to eminent men in every part of science, if it should be enabled to produce, in consequence of this institution, a School of English Artists. |
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