Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 283
nd was always of the greatest importance in art as in allother phases of civilization. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) deserves to rank withReynolds. He rivaled Wilson in landscape and rivaled bothWilson and Reynolds in portraits. His landscapes are morepowerful than Wilsons and are not less poetic… … Fig. 178. — Boy Fighting, by Gainsborough. Photographed for this work,by permission of the owner, Mr. Henry T. Chapman, of Brooklyn. Romney (1724-1802), Hoppner (1758-1810), and Opie(i761-1807) were also portrait painters of great distinction.The work of Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823), the most…
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