| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 632 pages
...prig of a ' cognoscento,' states the whole art to consist in two rules, ' the one, always to observe that the picture might have been better had the painter taken more pains ; the other, to praise the works of Pietro Perugino.' This feeling seems 4o have been still in force... | |
| 1865 - 642 pages
...on the easel by his butler, and on his return, in about three hours, the picture was complete, — so complete indeed that it is more than doubtful if...skill is also a source of much interest and pleasure, easily attained by all who will seek to enjoy it. Let the visitor, for example, examine Mulready's... | |
| Saturday review - 1873 - 302 pages
...All sorts of objects are kept in stock to tempt the amateur, who has not even sense enough to observe that the picture might have been better had the painter taken more pains. The American is a better prey than the Englishman, who generally possesses at home a select assortment... | |
| Victoria and Albert museum - 1884 - 314 pages
...on the easel by his butler, and on his return, in about three hours, the picture was complete,—so complete indeed that it is more than doubtful if equal...skill is also a source of much interest and pleasure, easily attained by all who will seek to enjoy it. Let the visitor, for example, examine Mulready's... | |
| South Kensington Museum - Artists - 1893 - 460 pages
...hours, the picture was complete, — so complete indeed that it is more than doubtful if equal truth ot imitation could have resulted from a more laboured...skill is also a source of much interest and pleasure, easily attained by all who will seek to enjoy it. Let the visitor, for example, examine Mulready's... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1854 - 632 pages
...prig of a ' cognoscento,' states the whole art to consist in two rules, ' the one, always to observe that the picture might have been better had the painter taken more pains ; the other, to praise the works of Pietro Perugino.' This feeling seems to have been still in force... | |
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