John Opie and His CircleHutchinson & Company, 1911 - 376 strani |
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Academicians admiration Alderson Amelia Opie appears artist Attributed to Opie Aubyn Bart beautiful bought Bowyer Boydell canvas coat colour copy Cornwall Cosway Date daughter death died dress Duke Edward Beetham Edward Opie Engraved Exhibited father France friends Fuseli genius gentleman George Godwin guineas hair Half length head Henry Holcroft Horace Walpole husband James John Opie Jope Rogers King Lady Last heard Lectures on Painting letter London Lord marriage married Mary Opie Memoir Memorials of Amelia mezzo Miss Brightwell Mithian mother National Portrait Gallery née Nollekens Northcote Northcote's Norwich Opie painted Opie's oval Ozias Humphrey painter Penwarne permission picture Polwhele Present owner Prince Hoare probably Richard Polwhele Royal Academy S. W. Reynolds SAMUEL says Sir Joshua sister Sold at Christie's Taylor Thomas Thomas Holcroft thought three-quarter face told Truro wife William Wolcot wrote young
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Stran 94 - are the people of this country to the sight of portraiture only, that they can scarcely as yet consider painting in any other light ; they will hardly admire a landscape that is not a view of a particular place, nor a history unless composed of likenesses of the persons represented, and are apt to be staggered, confounded, and wholly unprepared to follow such vigorous flights of imagination as would • — a$ mil be felt and applauded with enthusiasm in a more advanced and liberal stage of criticism.
Stran 56 - To be tied down to an authentic face of Juliet! To have Imogen's portrait! To confine the illimitable ! I like you and Stothard (you best), but " out upon this half-faced fellowship.
Stran 21 - Prideaux, even to the dogs and cats of the family. He remained so long absent from home, that some uneasiness began to arise on his account ; but it was dissipated by his returning, dressed in a handsome coat, with very long skirts, with lace ruffles, and with silk stockings.
Stran 48 - But thou must wait for that event — Perhaps the change is never meant — Till then, with me thy pencil will not shine — Till then, old red-nosed Wilson's art Will hold its empire o'er my heart, By Britain left in poverty to pine. " But, honest Wilson, never mind ; Immortal praises thou shalt find. And for a dinner have no cause to fear. — Thou start'st at my prophetic rhymes ! Don't be impatient for those times — Wait till thou hast been dead a hundred year.
Stran 128 - I enjoy everything ; and if my head be not turned by the large draughts which my vanity is daily quaffing, I shall return to Norwich much happier than I left it. Mr. Opie has (but mum) been my declared lover almost ever since I came. I was ingenuous with him upon principle, and I told him my situation and the state of my heart.
Stran 9 - COME, gentle sleep ! attend thy votary's prayer, And, though death's image, to my couch repair ; How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie, And, without dying, O how sweet to die ! DR.
Stran 22 - Books were not then," he remarks, " as they fortunately are now, great or small, on this subject or on that, to be found in almost every house. A book, except of prayers, or of daily religious use, was scarcely to be seen but among the opulent, or in the possession of the studious; and by the opulent they were often disregarded with a degree of neglect which would now be almost disgraceful.
Stran 73 - I have been introduced to Mr. Opie, who is in manners and appearance as great a clown and as stupid a looking fellow as ever I set my eyes on. Nothing but incontrovertible proof of the fact could force me to think him capable of anything above the sphere of a journeyman carpenter, so little, in this instance, has nature proportioned exterior grace to inward worth.
Stran 164 - He was always in his painting-room," says Amelia Opie, " by half-past eight in winter, and by eight o'clock in summer; and there he generally remained, closely engaged in painting, till half-past four in winter, and till five in summer. Nor did he ever allow himself to be idle when he had no pictures bespoken ; and as he never let his execution rust for want of practice, he, in that case, either sketched out designs for historical or fancy pictures, or endeavoured, by working on an unfinished picture...
Stran 10 - England, get yourself japanned. But remember not to return with the hypocritical solemnity of a priest. I have just bestowed a good living on a parson, who believes not all he preaches, and what he really believes he is afraid to preach. You may very conscientiously declare," said the conscientious Governor to his admiring pupil, " that you have an internal call, as the same expression will equally suit a hungry stomach and the soul.