 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pagina’s
...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, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pagina’s
...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 - 1809 - 442 pagina’s
...from his excellencies and defects, matter of instruction to the Students in our academy. If ever thii nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pagina’s
...at the royal academy soon after his death, by its truly exalted president, it is said of him, " that if ever this nation should produce genius sufficient...transmitted to posterity in the history of the art among the first of that rising name." — " Whether he most excelled in portraits, landscapes, or fancy pictures,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pagina’s
....the royal academy soon after his death, by its truly exalted 'president, it is said of'. him, " that if ever this nation should .produce genius sufficient...transmitted to posterity in the history of the art among the first of that rising name." — " Whether he most excelled in portraits, landscapes, or fancy pictures,... | |
 | 1867 - 816 pagina’s
...of his great contemporary. "If ever," said Reynolds in his discourse delivered before the Academy, " this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...history of the art among the very first of that rising school." The recent exhibition at Kensington proved how little Gainsborough stood in need of apology... | |
 | James Ford - 1818 - 432 pagina’s
...says Sir Joshua .Reynolds, 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 among the first of that rising name. Whither he most excelled in portraits, landscapes, or fancy pictures,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pagina’s
...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 - 1819 - 446 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 388 pagina’s
...should produce genius sufficient to acquire for us the honorable distinction of an English School, then the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity,...the art, among the very first of that rising name : and after shewing that he had owed much of his excellence to his love for the art, he expressed himself... | |
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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. 
