The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 139
gthe Venetian masters, She had formed her style after ANGELICA KAUFFMAN. [Switzerland the antique, and was enabled to give the air of Grecianbeauties to her femaie figures ; in those of men she hasbeen less successful; they, for the most part are wantingin vigour and character, and have the… … CLAUDE LE LORRAINE. The landscapes of Claude le Lorraine are models ofperfection ; he had the talent of uniting beauty of situa-tion to truth of colouring. Inferior to Poussin, inpoint of richness of Composition, he surpasses him inreal gradation, and in the variety of the effects of light.He has…
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