If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of the art, among the very first of that rising name. Anecdote Biography - Page 172by John Timbs - 1860 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Moss Brock-Arnold - 1881 - 192 pages
...distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in this history of the art, among the very first of that rising name." This was the opinion expressed by the President of the Royal Academy within a few months of the death... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1885 - 770 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds said to the students of the Royal Academy, " If ever our nation should produce a genius, sufficient to acquire to us the honourable...will be transmitted to posterity in the history of art among the very first of that rising name." Thomas, third son of John Gainsborough, a respectable... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pages
...as to draw from his excellencies and defects matter of instruction to the Students in our Academy. If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient...the art, among the very first of that rising name. That our reputation in the Arts is now only rising must be acknowledged ; and we must expect our advances... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...as to draw from his excellencies and defects matter of instruction to the Students in our Academy. If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient...transmitted to posterity, in the history of the art, among tho very first of that rising name. That our reputation in the Arts is now only rising must bo acknowledged... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1902 - 244 pages
...distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will he transmitted to posterity, in this history of the art, among the very first of that rising name. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. GAINSBOROUGH Lrros AND oLn^^•.;•;^ L Gainsborough 113 IOST biographies are written with... | |
| 1901 - 528 pages
...perhaps not presidential condescension or funereal eulogy that led him to say of the dead painter: "If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honorable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity,... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1902 - 258 pages
...distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in this history of the art, among the very first of that rising name. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Gainsborough GAINSBOROUGH «3 )ST biographies are written with intent I to make a man the... | |
| TIMOTHY COLE - 1902 - 454 pages
...perhaps not presidential condescension or funereal eulogy that led him to say of the dead painter: " If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honorable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity,... | |
| Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1904 - 304 pages
...as to draw from his excellencies and defects matter of instruction to the students in our Academy. If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient...honourable distinction of . an English School, the name of Gains"e " borough will be transmitted to posterity, in boroughs thg history of the art> among the very... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 pages
...as to draw from his excellences and defects, matter of instruction to the students in our academy. If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient...the art, among the very first of that rising name. That our reputation in the arts is now only rising, must be acknowledged ; and we must expect our advances... | |
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