Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts (1826)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 · London : Printed at the Shakspeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major · leaf 111
n his Life of Cowley. True genius is a mind of largegeneral powers, accidentally determined to some particulardirection. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of thepresent age, had his first fondness for his art, excited by theperusal of Richardsons treatise. Did not this early prepos-session in… … EU&cliffe JUfcrar?, flDjott. CHAPTER II. Architects, and other Artists in the Reign ofGeorge I. The stages of no art have been more distinctlymarked than those of architecture in Britain. Itis not probable that our masters the Romans evertaught us more than the construction of arches.Those,…
