John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 66
y instruction save the light of his own genius. He afterwards regretted this lossof time, but remarked, that but for his quarrel with Hudson, he should never have escaped fromtameness and insipidity—from fair tied wigs, blue velvet coats, and white satin waistcoats, whichHudson bestowed on all… … vicious style in which he had been instructed by Hudson still characterised liis ])r<)ductions, and on oneoccasion, when a gentleman wished to be distinguished from others by having his hat painted on hishead, such was the power of conventionalism in Rev^iolds, that he is said to have painted…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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