 | Books - 1774 - 592 pages
...delightful. * The bufmefs of painting is not only to reprcfent nature, and to make the befl choice of it, but to raife and improve it from what is commonly or even rarely feen, to what it never was, or will be, in fadt, though we may eafily conceive it might be. As in a... | |
 | Jonathan Richardson - Engraving - 1792 - 334 pages
...eafy, expeditious, and delightful. The bufinefs of Painting hs not only to reprefeftt nature, but itO make the beft choice of it ; nay to raife, and improve it from What is commonly, or even rarely feen, to what never w&s, or will be in faft, though we may eafily concerve it might be. As in a good... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art museums - 1842 - 352 pages
...painting is not only to represent nature, and to make the best choice of it, but to raise and improve i from what is commonly or even rarely seen, to what never was, or will be in fact, though we may easily conceive it might be. I will add but one article more in praise of this noble,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1845 - 710 pages
...painting is not only to represent nature, and to make the best choice of it, but to raise and improve i from what is commonly or even rarely seen, to what never was, or will be in fact, though we may easily conceive it might be. I will add but one article more in praise of this noble,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1909 - 710 pages
...business of Painting is not only to represent nature, but to make the best choice of it ; nay, to raise and improve it from what is commonly or even rarely seen, to what never was or will be in fact, though we may easily conceive it might be. . . . The business of history is a plain, and just relation... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1909 - 1374 pages
...business of Painting is not only to represent nature, but to make the best choice of it ; nay, to raise and improve it from what is commonly or even rarely seen, to what never was or will be in fact, though we may easily conceive it might be. . . . The business of history is a plain, and just relation... | |
 | Wilhelm Nisser - Great Britain - 1927 - 508 pages
...business of Painting is not only to represent nature, but to make the best choice of it; nay to raise, and improve it from what is commonly, or even rarely seen, to what never was, or will be in fact, though we may easily conceive it might be. As in a good portrait, from whence we conceive a better... | |
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... without this art could not possibly be communicated, whereby mankind is advanced higher in the rational state, and made better, and that in a way easy, expeditious, and delightful. 
