English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art (1907)
Davies, Randall, 1866-1946 · London, Seeley and co., limited; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 140
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… … THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURT 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 representation than those of Reynolds, oreven Hogarth. To ZofFany, the prim English parlour must have seemed…
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