An elementary history of painting, by N. D'Anvers

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Side 606 - Whether he most excelled in portraits, landscapes, or fancy pictures, it is difficult to determine...
Side 599 - Rome, which is in reality to painters what Parnassus is in imagination to poets, was frequently present to the fancy of Reynolds ; and he longed to see with his own eyes the glories in art, of which he heard so much. He desired to pay his homage to the princes of the profession, and profit, if possible, by studying their productions.
Side 526 - Brouwer. His pictures represent the usual Dutch interiors and exteriors of this period. He may be studied in the National Gallery. Jan Steen (1626 — 1679), of Leyden, first studied under Nicolas Knupfer at Utrecht, and subsequently under Van Goyen, whose daughter he married. At the Belvedere, Vienna, is a Village Wedding, and at Berlin a Garden of an Ale-house, which are excellent scenes of burlesque comedy ; at the Hermitage, the Game of Backgammon, where Steen has painted himself in conversation...
Side 603 - I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Side 581 - Constantino — was devoted to his works illustrative of the victories achieved by the French armies in Algeria. Of this series the most noteworthy for its merit, as well as for its size, is the Capture of the Smala of Abd-el-Kader. Claude Marie Dubufe (1789—1864) was born in Paris, and took his first lessons in art in the studio of the great classic master David. His earliest works were historic, and included the well-known Roman family dying of famine, and Achilles taking Iphigenia under his...
Side 579 - In 1802 he painted his first important work, Bonaparte passing the Bridge of Kehl, and in 1806 went to Rome, where he remained until 1820, when he removed to Florence, where he resided four years, painting the Entry of Charles V. into Paris, and the Vow of Louis XIII. now in a church at Montauban. In 1824 he returned to Paris, to find the school of David supplanted by that of Delacroix. He then painted his Apotheosis of Homer, on a ceiling in the Louvre ; in 1829 was elected Professor of Painting...
Side 601 - Lastly, the King, to give dignity to the Royal Academy of Great Britain, bestowed the honour of knighthood on the President ; and seldom has any such distinction been bestowed amid more universal approbation. Burke, in one of his admirable letters to Barry, says, " Reynolds is at the head of this academy. From his known public spirit, and warm desire of raising up art among us, he will...
Side 648 - Mignot (1831 — 1871), the landscape painter, lived some part of his life in New York ; he then removed to South Carolina, and subsequently, at the outbreak of the Civil War, took up his residence in England, though he paid visits to his native land. He exhibited in the Royal Academy from time to time, and many of his works are in England. One of his best pictures is Snvw in Hyde Park.
Side 601 - The Royal Academy was planned and proposed in 1768 by Chambers, West, Cotes, and Moser ; the caution or timidity of Reynolds kept him for some time from assisting. A list of thirty members was made out ; and West, a prudent and amiable man, called on Reynolds, and, in a conference of two hours' continuance, succeeded in persuading him to join them.
Side 595 - Kneller (1648 — 1723), who was born at Liibeck, arrived at London in 1674, painted during the reigns of Charles II., James II., William III., Queen Anne, and of George I., by whom he was created a baronet. Kneller painted the greater part of the sovereigns and princes of his time, including Louis XIV. and the Czar Peter of Russia. He painted the great Duke of Marlborough ; Newton and Locke ; Sir Christopher Wren ; Pope, Addison, Steele, Congreve, and other members of the celebrated Kit Cat Club.

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