 | Early English newspapers - 1806 - 790 pages
...Peintres." " Painters of Hillory," (aid he, " make the dead live, and do not be^in to live ihtmlelves till they are dead. I paint the living, and they make me live." Hence, why is the complaint fo general of out annual exhibition being deluged with Portraits? thtcaufe... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists, British - 1786 - 318 pages
...this reafon. " Painters of hiftory, faid he, make the dead live, and do not begin to live themfelves till they are dead.— I paint the living, and they make me live." greateft mafters ; but he united the higheft vanity with the moft confummate negligence of character... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...in the art. — A portrait painter says, " Painters of history make the dead lIve, and do not b gin to live themselves, till they are dead. — I paint the living, and they make me Kite," ">.<33><" One Dr. , a Scottish Clergyman, in what he facetiously terms, " A faithful Translation... | |
 | 1896 - 588 pages
...portrait-painting which throws light on some of his own characteristics. ' Painters of history,' he said, ' make the ' dead live, and do not begin to live themselves...dead. I paint the living, and they make me live.' Against mere flattery too we have to be on our guard. Sir Joshua once painted Dr. Johnson reading a... | |
 | Mark Noble - Great Britain - 1806 - 424 pages
...left us paintings to vie with some of the best masters, but at the probable expence of indigence. " Painters of history," said he, " make the dead " live,...dead; I paint the living, and they make " me live." And most magnificently too, he might have added. He always valued money more than fame, and at length... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 428 pages
...masters, but at the probable expence of indigence. " Painters of history," said he, " make the dead te live, and do not begin to live themselves till they...dead ; I paint the living, and they make " me live." And most magnificently too, he might have added. He always valued money more than fame, and at length... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...Godfrey's apology for preferring the lucrative, though less honourable, line of portrait painting. " Painters of history," said he, " make the dead live,...dead.. I paint the living, and they make me live."— Lord ORFORD'S Lives of the Painters. See his Works, Vol. III. p. 359. Dryden seems to allude to this... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...Godfrey's apology for preferring the lucrative, though less honourable, line of portrait painting. " Painters of history," said he, " make the dead live,...dead. I paint the living, and they make me live."— Lord ORFORD'S Lives of the Painters. See his Works, Vol. III. p. 359. Dryden seems to allude to this... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 548 pages
...current among his employers. " History painters," he said, " make the dead live, and don't begin to live till they are dead. I paint the living, and they make me live." There is a singular paucity of imagination in Kneller's pictures. He did indeed (and Walpole justly... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 544 pages
...current among his employers. " History painters," he said, " make the dead live, and don't begin to live till they are dead. I paint the living, and they make me live." There is a singular paucity of imagination in Kneller's pictures. He did indeed (and Walpole justly... | |
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Painters of history," said he, " make the dead live, and do not begin to live themselves till they are dead. I paint the living, and they make me live... 
