The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... nature , and was an exact observer of the costume . Yet his figures are too short , and there is too much sameness in his expression , his draperies , and his attitudes . His local colours have been censured by De Piles as being very ...
... nature , and was an exact observer of the costume . Yet his figures are too short , and there is too much sameness in his expression , his draperies , and his attitudes . His local colours have been censured by De Piles as being very ...
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... natures , they could neither live amicably toge- ther , nor long apart ) , and assisted him materially in his performance , until Taccone , a pupil of Annibal , who was in his confidence , fomented between them fresh causes of ...
... natures , they could neither live amicably toge- ther , nor long apart ) , and assisted him materially in his performance , until Taccone , a pupil of Annibal , who was in his confidence , fomented between them fresh causes of ...
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... natural son . This youth , who was named Antonio , and distinguished by the appellation of Il Gobbo ; under the tuition of his uncle , manifested a lively and promis- ing genius , and gave such evident tokens of an enlarged capacity ...
... natural son . This youth , who was named Antonio , and distinguished by the appellation of Il Gobbo ; under the tuition of his uncle , manifested a lively and promis- ing genius , and gave such evident tokens of an enlarged capacity ...
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... nature , has trodden in the certain path to glory . This is confirmed by the many excellent scholars he produced , in which respect he proved himself superior to Raphael . As it may not be unpleasing to the general reader to learn the ...
... nature , has trodden in the certain path to glory . This is confirmed by the many excellent scholars he produced , in which respect he proved himself superior to Raphael . As it may not be unpleasing to the general reader to learn the ...
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... nature be in general a slender foundation for confidence and friendship , such was the distant si- tuations of Henry and Ferdinand , and so little did they clash in politics , that no jealousy had , on any occasion , ever subsisted ...
... nature be in general a slender foundation for confidence and friendship , such was the distant si- tuations of Henry and Ferdinand , and so little did they clash in politics , that no jealousy had , on any occasion , ever subsisted ...
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