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great delicacy, and could makean architectural design in a fine taste, as well as con-struct every part of the building. After the death of Reynolds and the retirement ofRomney, in the last decade of the eighteenth century,the field of portraiture was left vacant—in London atleast—for John Hoppner,… … The English School School. His fame in recent years has certainly ex- Close ofceeded his merits, but it is due to him to say that he Eighteenthwas a conscientious artist, and a firm upholder of the Centurytradition of Reynolds, so far as in him lay. The oldKing had always disliked Reynolds, and…
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