Word: ward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture. English Art in the Eighteenth Century - III. Gainsborough. Mr. Humphrey Ward. Sanders Theatre...
Last evening Mr. Humphrey Ward gave the second of his lectures on English Art in the Eighteenth Century. His subject was Sir John Reynolds and the substance of his lecture was as follows...
...Humphrey Ward delivered the first of his lectures on English art before a large audience in Sanders Theatre last evening. Professor Norton in a few appropriate words introduced him. Mr. Ward is well-known as art critic of the London Times and by his collection of the English poets...
...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...
Lecture. English Art in the Eighteenth Century - II. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Mr. Humphrey Ward. Sanders Theatre...