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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long separation from his wife and children which is the greatest blot on his character. The year after he came to London he sent a picture of General Wolfe to the Society of Arts. It was announced that he had received the second prize. At the suggestion of Sir Joshua Reynolds the decision was revoked and the prize awarded to Mortimer. This was the cause of Romney's dislike for Sir Joshua...
Last evening in Sanders Theatre Mr. Humphrey Ward lectured on Romney, who with Sir Joshua Reynolds and Gainsborough formed the great trio of English artists in the eighteenth century. The substance of the lecture, the last of Mr. Ward's extremely interesting and instructive series, was as follows...
...years in studying the galleries of Rome and Venice. On his return to London Romney rented a fine house in Cavendish Square. The Duke of Richmond came to sit for his portrait. The picture was a brilliant success and in twenty years Romney was the acknowleged rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1782 his friend Charles Greville brought Emma Hart, afterwards Lady Hamilton, to sit for her portrait. Of this famous woman Romney painted not less than twenty-three portraits in various poses. His picture of her as a spinner is his masterpiece. It is a miracle of simplicity, soft...
Shortly after his marriage Gainsborough set up as a portrait painter. He owed his start to Sir Philip Fickness, who introduced him to a great many fashionable people, whose portraits he painted. During the time he lived in Suffolk he painted a great many landscapes, which show the first signs of his manner. He possessed a wonderful pictorial memory and there was scarce a tree or bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early...
...sent a full length picture of the three princesses to the Royal Academy, which he requested to be hung on a line with the eye. This the officials refused to do, and the matter ended by his withdrawing the picture and never exhibiting again. He afterwards became reconciled with Sir Joshua Reynolds and began a portrait of him, which was never finished. Four years later, when Gainsborough felt that his end was near, he sent for Sir Joshua. His last words were, "We are all going to heaven, and VanDyck is of the party...