 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1832 - 338 pages
...British poetry were what Copley chiefly found pleasure in. The first Installation of the Order of Saint Patrick seemed to him a subject worthy of the pencil...before he resolved to try an English one, viz. the N 2 Arrest of the Five Members of the Commons by Charles the First. Malone, an indefatigable friend,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1832 - 358 pages
...companion to the picture of Lord Chatham : filling the whole with the portraits of the knights Mid other great characters. The idea originated with myself;...before he resolved to try an English one, viz. the N2 Arrest of the Five Members of the Commons bj Charles the First. Malone, an indefatigable friend,... | |
 | England - 1832 - 868 pages
...highly illustrative of the capricious ignorance to which a portrait-painter is often subjected : — " A certain man came to Copley, and had himself, his...payment for the portraits which he had obliterated." p. 179. In proof of the more liberal dealing hetween the nobility and our historical painters, we quote... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...The following amusing anecdote of one of his patrons, renders this point, however, doubtful : — ' A certain man came to Copley, and had himself, his...payment for the portraits which he had obliterated.' — p. 179. The " Arrest of the Five Members of the Commons, by Charles the First," afforded Copley... | |
 | 1832 - 368 pages
...complied, the likeness was introduced; and the husband looked with a glance of satisfaction on his spouses : not so the lady ; she remonstrated : never...payment for the portraits which he had obliterated" p. 1*9. was of short duration ; for the great success of his works, the almost numberless orders which... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 382 pages
...be painted. It ought to be mentioned, that Copley, amid all his historical works, continued to pamt portraits, and had in that way considerable employment....viz. the Arrest of the Five Members of the Commons bj Charles the T'irst. Malone, un indefatigable friend, supplied the historical inf'ornuition, and... | |
 | Periodicals - 1833 - 460 pages
...hand, Copley," he said : " an accident befell Ï38 2S9 my second wife ; this lady is my third, end she is come to have her likeness included in the family...at law to obtain payment for the portraits which he liad obliterated. PATRIOTS. — One day during the last Polish Revolution, when the Dictator, Chlopicki,... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1834 - 450 pages
...size as that of Chatham.' This was a vain imagination — the king approved of the work; the nohility of Ireland promised to sit for their portraits, though...action at law to obtain payment for the portraits which lie had obliterated. " The mind of Copley teemed with large pictures : he had hardly failed in his... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1846 - 372 pages
...looked with aelance of satisfaction on his three spouses. Not so the lady; she remonstrated, ne\er was such a thing heard of — out her predecessors...payment for the portraits which he had obliterated. A Legend of North Bend. In the monih of August, 1791, a man named Fuller, with his son William, a lad... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1846 - 372 pages
...looked with a glance of satisfaction on his three spouses. Not so the lady; she remonstrated. ne\er was such a thing heard of — out her predecessors...them out accordingly, and had to bring an action at Inw to obtain payment for the portraits which lie fiad obliterated. In the month of August, 1791, a... | |
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A certain man came to Copley, and had himself, his wife, and seven children, all included in a family piece : — "It wants but one thing," said he, " and that is the portrait of my first wife — for this one- is my second." — " But," said the artist,... 
