
Inscriptions regarding British school
Maker
(artist)
1798-1863
1798-1863
Title
Inscriptions regarding British school
Date of Production
(September) 1857
Medium
paper
Dimensions
Height: 8.9 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1954.AH.22.1
Mode of Acquisition
A.A.D. Harding, bequest, 1954
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: 712 / The trees in this Picture & the / sky are beautiful and the color / lovely. - [line across page] English School 41 / The Pictures of Wilson although / false & fictitious in detail / show incontenstibly the importance / of painting thick and of having / no positive dark except on / the figures - / [line across page] 70 / This Picture like many others / by Gainsoboro proves his entire / ignorance of foliage - which with / figures & Cattle are here all Bad
Inscription: ~Reynolds~ / For the most part I am / disappointed with Reynolds / He was an artist of great / power, but it was that of / the feelings rather than of / Knowledge - To these strong feelings may be ascribed the / courage manifest in his Works / they are daring & dashing not / under the control of the Know / ledge of the individual object / on the true principles & not / such as he worked form / where under art or derived / fancies from the Old Masters - / To his feelings is owing the / beauty of his color.
Inscription: ~Reynolds~ / For the most part I am / disappointed with Reynolds / He was an artist of great / power, but it was that of / the feelings rather than of / Knowledge - To these strong feelings may be ascribed the / courage manifest in his Works / they are daring & dashing not / under the control of the Know / ledge of the individual object / on the true principles & not / such as he worked form / where under art or derived / fancies from the Old Masters - / To his feelings is owing the / beauty of his color.
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