English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art (1907)
Davies, Randall, 1866-1946 · London : Seeley and co., limited · leaf 85
the nobility and gentry in a singleyear, to frame his immortal discourses, and to send his sister outdriving in his state coach; the other to thunder at the Academywhen his portrait of Royalty was not hung as he desired it, and todazzle the world with an inexplicable technique that drew fromQuin… … THE INFLUENCE OF JRETNOLDS ^ND QAINSBOROUGH 43 Still more extraordinary was Gainsboroughs mopping, as it wascommonly called, when he employed all the kitchen crockery and aquantity of sponges in the composition of landscape sketches — ameccanismo which became so popular that even the Queen had…
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