English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art (1907)
Davies, Randall, 1866-1946 · London : Seeley and co., limited · leaf 135
es are fetching higher and higher prices when theycome up at Christies. He is better known, in fact, as a painter ofconversation pieces—whether an English drawing-room, a cock-fightat Lucknow, or the Tribuna at Florence—than of anything else.That he was not an Englishman gives his work the greater… … CHILUKEN UF George III. By J. S. Copley. Euckiiigha u Palace I-roni a photograph by W. E. Gray. THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY 71 shores, were so struck with the naive simplicity of English life thattheir renderings of it exactly as it appeared to them, are far moreconvincing in their actual…
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