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The grocer considers Gainsborough the greater artist, and surely his fame is wide, like unto the hat hated by theater-goers that his name has rendered deathless, and which certain unkind ones declare has given him immortality. Joshua was the seventh child in the brood of five boys and six girls.
'I shall count ten very slowly, he replied pensively, 'and if by the time I have finished you are not seated on the back of that chair, your feet crossed so as to overlap, your right thumb in the corner of your mouth, a pleasant smile on your countenance, and the Gainsborough hat on your head, you will need no more hats on this sorrowful earth. One two
Siddons, the great actress: "Damn your nose madam; there is no end to it." The nose in question must have been an "eyesore" to more than Gainsborough, for a famous critic is said to have declared that "Mrs. Siddons, with all her beauty was a kind of female Johnson ... her nose was not too long for nothing."
In the numerous sketches and studies that Gainsborough has left us, we can see how much we have lost in gaining his wonderful portraits. He loved landscape, from his earliest youth to his dying day. Loved it for itself. For among all the drawings of his which I have ever seen, I do not remember one which can be identified as any particular place.
Standing on a gently rising hill, its many towers and battlements looking over the forests surrounding it, this vast pile more nearly fulfilled our ideas of feudal magnificence than any other we saw. It is famous for its picture gallery, which contains many priceless originals by Gainsborough, Reynolds and others.
Another phase of art English, like that of Constable and Turner rose to its greatest popularity at about the same time. It had an origin more easily traceable the presence of Vandyke in England in the seventeenth century having given an impulsion to portrait painting which had been maintained by Reynolds and Gainsborough in the century preceding our own.
On this third visit Deronda found Hans Meyrick installed with his easel at Diplow, beginning his picture of the three daughters sitting on a bank, "in the Gainsborough style," and varying his work by rambling to Pennicote to sketch the village children and improve his acquaintance with the Gascoignes.
How nice to think there's no feeling of soreness!" observed Miss S. In Gainsborough at least there was no feeling save of bewilderment. "Staying with us? No, I haven't so much as seen him," he stammered out. Immediately Miss S. was upon him, and by the time they reached Fairholme had left him with no more than a few rags of untold details.
"Yes, he must mean you, Miss Gainsborough." "Yes, because last night he told me it was so strange, but he wouldn't have done it unless it was true he told me that he wasn't Lord Tristram really, and that I " Her eyes travelled quickly over their faces, and she re-read the letter. "Do you know anything about it?" she demanded imperiously.
I did not suspect what it might contain until it was too late. She recognised that photographs were inside the wrappings, which she tore open with a cry of rapture and then! She had a short fainting fit when she saw the Gainsborough hat, and as soon as she revived, the extraordinary appearance I presented upside down on the mast sent her into violent hysterics.
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