Davies, Randall · London: T. C. & E. C. Jack · leaf 430
ularly to low and vulgar characters, and who expresswith precision the various shades of passion as they areexhibited by vulgar minds (such as we see in the worksof Hogarth), deserve great praise ; but as their geniushas been employed on low and confined subjects, thepraise which we must give must… … The English School first success in that art. I mean the full-length portrait Williamof Captain Keppel, painted in 1752. This originality and Hogarthboldness in disregarding the tame l?ut universal con-vention in posing the sitter was peculiarly Hogarthsown. With him it amounted almost to…
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