 | English literature - 1798 - 484 pages
...defect, I thought it one of the coldelt and molt infipid Pictures I creí behtld. The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on Genius, to attract attention, and enforce admiration, in fpite of all their faults. It is owing to this fatcinating power, that the performances of thole Painters... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...defect, I thought it one of the coldest and most insipid pictures I ever beheld. The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius,...faults. It is owing to this fascinating power that VOL. II. EE o/" t!ie performances of those painters with which he is surrounded, though they have perhaps... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...defect, I thought it one of the coldest and most insipid pictures I ever beheld. The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius,...faults. It is owing to this fascinating power that VOL. ii. EE e performances of those painters with . which he is surrounded, though they have perhaps... | |
 | History - 1807 - 800 pages
...defcrt, I thought it one of the coldefl and moil infipid pictures I ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius to attract attention and enforce admiration, in fpite of all their faults. It is owing to this fafcinating power that the performances of thofe painters... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1809 - 442 pages
...to this fascinating power that VOL. II. ES CHA»Ac. the performances of those painters with RuB*™, which he is surrounded, though they have perhaps fewer...spiritless, tame, and insipid ; such as the altar-pieces of Grayer, Schut, Segers, Huysum, Tyssens, Van Balen, and the rest. They are done by men whose hands,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...defect, I thought it one of jhe coldest and most insipid pictures I ever heheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius,...spiritless, tame, and insipid ; such as the altar-pieces of Crayer, Schutz, Segers, Heysens, Tysens, Van Bulen, and the rest. They are done by men whose bands,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...defect, I thought it one-of the coldest and most insipid pictures I ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius,...spiritless, tame, and insipid ; such as the altar-pieces of Grayer, Schutz, Segers, Heytens, Tysens, Van Bulen, and the rest. They are done by men whose hands,... | |
 | Biography - 1816 - 534 pages
...pictures I ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on urnius, to attract attention, and enforce admiration, in spite...spiritless, tame, and insipid; such as the altar-pieces of Crayer, Schutz, Segers, Heysens, Tysens, Van Bulen, apd the rest. They are done by men whose hands,... | |
 | Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...defect, I thought it one of the coldest and most insipid pictures I ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius,...their faults. It is owing to this fascinating power thut the performances of those painters with which he is surrounded, though they have, perhaps, Jewer... | |
 | Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...defect, I thought it one of the coldest and most insipid pictures 1 ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius,...in spite of all their faults. It is owing to this {urinating power that the performances of those painters with which he is surrounded, though they have,... | |
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The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius, to attract attention, and enforce admiration in spite of all their faults. It is owing to this fascinating power that the performances of those painters with which he is surrounded,... 
