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Updated: June 10, 2025
There is far less of that moody abstraction which awakens our interest in most of his portraits, but much greater objective truth, arising from that perfect sympathy between artist and sitter, which is of the first importance in portrait-painting.
Manfully determined not to give way an inch to his own continued reluctance to leave home, he packed up his brushes and colors, and started on his portrait-painting tour by the early train which he had originally settled to travel by.
Ross, of Lancaster, a lady famed for her great beauty, to paint the portraits of herself and her family a great honor for a lad of twelve. It was in Lancaster, in the year 1750, that he made the acquaintance of Mr. William Henry. That gentleman became deeply interested in the precocious boy, and frequently came to watch him at his portrait-painting.
"Am I to bring them?" "Three portraits I could put them in the Salon; I might go in for portrait-painting. Well, yes!" Old Elie descended the staircase to go in search of the Vervelle family.
Although a large portion, perhaps more than half, of these volumes has been given to the world in previous publications, yet the work carries this recommendation with it, that it presents in an accessible and consecutive form a great deal of that felicitous portrait-painting, hit off in a few words, that pleasant anecdote, and cheerful wisdom, which lie scattered about in books not now readily to be met with, and which will be new and acceptable to the reading generation which has sprung up within the last half-score years.
Emerson, in one of his early letters to Carlyle, wrote, "Nothing seems hid from those wonderful eyes of yours; those devouring eyes; those thirsty eyes; those portrait-eating, portrait-painting eyes of thine."
I appreciate the very remarkable and beautiful compromise between portrait-painting and decoration. The colour scheme is well maintained, somewhat in the manner of Mr. Watts, but neither the blue of the dress nor the blue of the night is intrinsically beautiful, and we have only to think of the blues that Whistler or Manet would have found to understand how deficient they are.
Has photography dealt hardly with portrait-painting as a branch of art, or has it benefited it by weeding out the feeble? The Memorial Exhibition will assist in determining. It will, we hope, allow the best living painters in this department to be fully represented by the side of their predecessors.
As soon as he was fairly settled, Haydon arranged the composition of a large picture of 'Pharaoh dismissing Moses, upon which he worked in the intervals of portrait-painting. A curious and obviously impartial sketch of him, as he appeared at this time, is drawn by Borrow in his Lavengro.
The shadows are intense and yet transparent, like the Adriatic waves when they lie out of the sun under the palace bridges. Portrait-painting, just beginning, was established in Venice, its later stronghold, by Gian Bellini.
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