 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...streets, or in company. If in his walks he found a character that he liked, and whose attendance was to bu obtained, he ordered him to his house : and from the...stones, dried herbs, and pieces of looking-glass ; which be magnified, and improved into rocks, trees, and water : all which exhihit the solicitude and extreme... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...memory, but immediately from the objects. He even framed a kind of model of landscapes on bistable composed of broken stones, dried herbs, • and pieces...water : all which exhibit the solicitude and extreme activity that he had about every thing relative to his art ; that he wished to have his objects embodied... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 pages
...happened to be about him, whatever peculiarity of countenance, whatever accidental combination of figure, or happy effects of light and shadow, occurred in...magnified and improved into rocks, trees, and water. How far this latter practice may be useful in giving hints, the professors of landscape can best determine.... | |
 | Matthew Pilkington - Painters - 1829 - 586 pages
...obtained, he ordered him to his house ; and from the fields he also brought into his painting room, stumps of trees, weeds, and animals of various kinds...magnified and improved into rocks, trees, and water ; all exhibiting the solicitude and extreme activity that he had about every thing relative to his art; so... | |
 | Matthew Pilkington - 1840 - 794 pages
...obtained, he ordered him to his house; and from the fields he also brought into his painting room, stumps of trees, weeds, and animals of various kinds;...magnified and improved into rocks, trees, and water; all exhibiting the solicitude and extreme activity that he had about everything relative to his art; so... | |
 | Periodicals - 1841 - 274 pages
...found a character that he liked, and whose attendance was to be obtained, he ordered him to his house : from the fields he brought into his painting-room...magnified and improved into rocks, trees, and water. How far this latter practice may be useful in giving hints the professors of landscape can best determine,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1841 - 276 pages
...kinds, and designed them, not from memory, but immediately from the objects. He even framed a kincl of model of landscapes on his table, composed of broken...magnified and improved into rocks, trees, and water. How far this latter Eraclice may be useful in giving hints the professors of mdseope am best determine.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Artists - 1824 - 318 pages
...happened to be about him whatever peculiarity of countenance, whatever accidental combination of figure, or happy effects of light and shadow, occurred in...magnified and improved into rocks, trees, and water. How far this latter practice may be useful in giving hints, the professors of landscape can best determine.... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1278 pages
...home to his house. He brought into his painting-room stumps of trees, weeds, &c. He even formed models of landscapes on his table, composed of broken stones, dried herbs, and pieces of lookingglass, which, magnified, became rocks, trees, and water. Most of this is tho common routine of every artist's life... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1847 - 448 pages
...inexpressible a charm. He learned, also, in this way, a habit of diligent, minute, and accurate observation, which never left him ; and it is both interesting...solicitude and extreme anxiety which he had about every thing relative to his art ; that he wished to have his objects embodied, as it were, and distinctly... | |
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If, in his walks, he found a character that he liked, and whose attendance was to be obtained, he ordered him to his house : and from the fields he brought into his painting-room, stumps of trees, weeds, and animals of various kinds ; and designed them,... 
