The Gallery of Pictures Painted by Benjamin West Esqr. Historical Painter, to His Majesty, and President of the Royal AcademyJoseph Thomas, 1820 - 22 páginas |
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... story . As his celebrity increased , he acquired more efficient patronage than that of his family and im- mediate connexions ; and before he was fifteen he had become a personage of considerable note throughout the province . About this ...
... story . As his celebrity increased , he acquired more efficient patronage than that of his family and im- mediate connexions ; and before he was fifteen he had become a personage of considerable note throughout the province . About this ...
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... story of the prisoner's former condition and present misery , is the size of the bones , contrasted with the shrinking and , as it were , daily waste of the muscles : the living flesh seems departing , and the skeleton already ...
... story of the prisoner's former condition and present misery , is the size of the bones , contrasted with the shrinking and , as it were , daily waste of the muscles : the living flesh seems departing , and the skeleton already ...
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... story of Venus and Adonis , of the coyness of the youth , his passion for the chase , and his death in the obstinate pursuit of it , is well known , and has been as often painted as poetized . Mr. West has chosen the point of time when ...
... story of Venus and Adonis , of the coyness of the youth , his passion for the chase , and his death in the obstinate pursuit of it , is well known , and has been as often painted as poetized . Mr. West has chosen the point of time when ...
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... story unless to his skill in embodying it with form , colour , light , and shade , he adds the diviner power of giving it the poetic soul . With such enthusiasm in the true sympathy of his art , has the Painter translated from Homer the ...
... story unless to his skill in embodying it with form , colour , light , and shade , he adds the diviner power of giving it the poetic soul . With such enthusiasm in the true sympathy of his art , has the Painter translated from Homer the ...
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... story of the Judgment of Hercules , so familiar to general readers , came originally from Xenophon , and was told ... stories , and to have been feebly and monotonously treated , for a subject apparently so provocative of strength and ...
... story of the Judgment of Hercules , so familiar to general readers , came originally from Xenophon , and was told ... stories , and to have been feebly and monotonously treated , for a subject apparently so provocative of strength and ...
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admirable agreeable Alexander Apollo artist B.West P.RA beautiful behold BELISARIUS BENJAMIN WEST Cæsar Cave of Despaire character chase colours contrast Corbould countenance dead death delineation DESPAIR OF VENUS dignity Diomede display divine drapery Drawn & Engraved Drawn &Engraved Drawn by H elegant eminent endless pain Engraved by H Engraved by H.Moses exhibited expression eyes face father favour feelings figures Finch Lane genius glory glowing Goddess grace Greece grief hand head heart hero Homer honour human Iliad immortal impression Joseph Thomas JUDGMENT OF HERCULES kiss Knight lady land lifted LIGHTNING WHICH PRECEDES London looks mind misery Moab Moses murderous natural noble objects Orestes Pain Painted by B.West Parmenio passion pathetic Patroclus pencil picture plague Pleasure poet poetic portrait prostrate PYLADES R. H. Painted Rome scene sorrow soul sovereign steeds sublimity talents terror thee Thetis thou truth unto venerable vigour West's wretched youth