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The Honorable Mrs Graham by THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH {English School} WEARY of his fame and his metropolitan entourage, Gainsborough said, “I’m sick of portraits; I wish very much to take my viol da gamba and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landscapes and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness …
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The Haywain by JOHN CONSTABLE {English School} CONSTABLE’S Haywain is a picture of historical significance. Painted in 1821, it was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824, where it created a sensation among the younger French artists. Struck by its luminosity of tone, Delacroix reo painted-in four days, it is said his Massacre of Sew, …
The Drummond Children by SIR HENRY RAEBURN {English School} OCCASIONALLY, in the history of painting, a man appears whose life is distin guished by the absence of temperament and color, whose art is notable for the symmetrical completeness of its development. Raeburn was a man of this stamp, the only Scottish painter of the first …
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Calais Pier by JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (English School) ABOUT 1800, Turner began to hve with a girl of sixteen, his housekeeper, and continued to live with her untrl his death. The first years of the century were Q the happiest of his hfe. He purchased two adjoining houses in London, thence forth his …
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The Shrimp Girl by WILLIAM HOGARTH {English School} THE whole of England sweeps through Hogarth’s imagination: the grim, the sweet, the coarse, the cruel, the lusty, and the tender. He loved English women and the beefy men whom he painted in the bulk forms of sculpture; he fre quented fairs and taverns, fishmarkets, sideshows, dances, …
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The Rakes Progress III by WILLIAM HOGARTH {English School} IMMEDIATELY after his elopement with Jane Thornhill, twenty and very lovely, Hogarth put to practical test his ideas of “composing pictures on canvas simi lar to representations on the stage”; and in 1731 A Harlot’s Progress burst upon London. This, the first of his social …
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Dr Johnson by SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS {English School} HOGARTH, in a man’s country, had made an art for men; had laid the foundations for a national school of the amplest proportions; but his successors, unhappily, were carried along by the tide of fashion. England, despite her wars, was growing rich; and young gentlemen, before …
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The Harvest Wagon by THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH {English School} THE landscape painters of Great Britain were impelled by the same forces that summoned the lyrics of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Their devotion to nature was intense and unaffected, a communion with things they knew best, the glorious rural world of their birthright; there had …
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