Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ward began by saying that every one in recent years has come in contact with the world of art. Interest in art has rapidly increased, especially in the paintings of the English school. Twenty-five years ago the much-coveted paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Romney were ranked with the works of third rate artists. Today no pictures are so popular as those of the old masters; and the highest price ever brought at Christian's was for a Sir Joshua. In landscape painting we look back from the present school to Corot and Daubigny, and from them...
...Sir Godfrey Kneller was the first English portrait painter to achieve a great reputation. He left behind him a substantial fortune and five hundred unfinished portraits. Grace rather than likeness characterized his work. William Hogarth succeeded Kneller. He was at first an apprentice to a silver-smith and then an engraver. In 1727, then in his thirtieth year, he painted his first portrait. He became famous by his satirical representations of vice and folly. His picture, Marriage a la Mode, which now hangs in the National Gallery is his masterpiece...
Lecture. English Art in the Eighteenth Century - II. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Mr. Humphrey Ward. Sanders Theatre...
Lecture. English Art in the Eighteenth Century - II. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Mr. Humphrey Ward. Sanders Theatre...
...Sir Joshua Reynolds...