 ... where he offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre ; and he met with customers of so little judgment, that they were fond of being painted by a man who would gladly have disowned his works the moment they were paid for.  English Female Artists - Página 37de Ellen Creathorne Clayton - 1876 - 865 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Horace Walpole - 1782 - 324 páginas
...where he offered one picture to fame, he facrificed twenty to lucre ; and he met with cuftomers of fo little judgment, that they were fond of being painted by a man, who would gladly have difowned his works the moment they were paid for. Ten f fovereigns fat to him ; not one of them difcovered... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 páginas
...him ' that he united the highest vanity, with the most consummate negligence of character; at least, where he offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre : md 4< met with customers of su little judgment, that they were fond of being painted by a man, who... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 páginas
...fool ; | * He travelled very young into Italy. DUYDEN. t Mr Walpole says, that " where Sir Godfrey offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre ; and he met with customers •f so little judgment, that they were fond of being painted by a But so his follies in thy posture... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 páginas
...f * He travelled very young into Italy. DRYDEN. t Mr Walpole says, that " where Sir Godfrey uttered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre ; and he met with customers •f so little judgment, that they were fond of being painted by a But so his follies in thy posture... | |
 | John Britton - 1812 - 1070 páginas
...characteristic of that avaricious and slovenly artist; and reminds us of Walpole's remark, 8 P 2 " wher* " where he offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre." An engraving of this by Bond, is found in Yorke's Royal Tribes. Portraits of the Grandfather to the... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1812 - 1052 páginas
...characteristic of that avaricious and slovenly artist; and reminds us of Walpole's remark, 2 P 2 " where " where he offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre." An engraving of this by Bond, is fotind in Yorke's Royal Tribes. Portraits of the Grandfather to the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...fool ;f * He travelled very young into Italy. DRYDEN. •J- Mr Walpole says, that " where Sir Godfrey offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty...of so little judgment, that they were fond of being paintBut so his follies in thy posture sink, The senseless idiot seems at last to think. Good heaven... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1837 - 332 páginas
...Vandyck, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Godfrey Kneller, of whom it has been said by Walpole, " that, where he offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre." How unlike that glorious father in the art, Apelles, who, when he was rebuked for his tardiness, replied,... | |
 | William Hayley Mason - 1839 - 236 páginas
...were among the latest and best of his productions. Kneller was a most rapid painter ; so much so that where he offered one picture to fame he sacrificed twenty to lucre. He was a correct and graceful designer, and was accustomed to bestow extraordinary pains in delineating... | |
 | George Nicholson - 1840 - 692 páginas
...half-length figure of the last Sir John Wynn, by Godfrey Kneller, reminds us of Walpole's remark, that " where he offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre." An engraving of this is given in Yorke's " Royal Tribes." Adjoining the house is a neat small building... | |
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