Painters and sculptors; a second series of Old masters and new, (1907)
Cox, Kenyon · Duffield and Co · leaf 122
omen. The French Revolution swept away all the frivoli-ties of court life and the pretty plaj-acting of theTrianon—and it swept away the art of painting,too. That stern republican, David, became dictatorof the art of France and of the whole continent ofEurope. According to him colour was… … GAINSBOROUGH: PORTRAIT OF MRS. BKAUFOY PAINTERS OF THE MODE 59 representation, and the artist .should devote himselfto drawing helmets and kneepans after the antique.His Btyle was even more rigid and academic thanthat of the most pompous of the academicians of Louis XIV.s time, and though one must…
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