 | Gustav Friedrich Waagen - 1838 - 370 pagine
...be commended, that in such scenes as the Distress for Rent, he never falls into caricature, as has often happened to Hogarth, but with all the energy...painters of common life of the seventeenth century, and likewise in the choice of many subjects — for instance, the Blind Man's Buff; but parIX.] PAINTINGS... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 pagine
...be commended, that in such scenes as the Distress for Rent, he never falls into caricature, as has often happened to Hogarth, but with all the energy...painters of common life of the seventeenth century, and likewise in the choice of many subjects, for instance, the Blind Man's Buff; but particularly by... | |
 | 1838 - 654 pagine
...be commended, that in such scenes as the Distress for Kent, he never falls into caricature, as has often happened to Hogarth, but with all the energy...painters of common life of the seventeenth century, and likewise in the choice of many subjects — for instance, the Blind Man's Buff, but particularly... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pagine
...remains within the bounds of truth. It is affirmed that the deeply impressive and touching cliaracter of this picture caused an extraordinary sensation...the English. In many other respects, Wilkie reminds roe of the great Dutch painters of common hfe of the seventeenth century, and likewise in the choice... | |
 | 1854 - 478 pagine
...affinity with his celebrated countryman, Sir Walter Scott. Both learn duly to prize another eature of his pictures, namely, their genuine national character....faithful representations of the peculiarities and nuK^j of life of the English. In many other respects, Wilkie reminds me of the great Dutch painters... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pagine
...commended, that in such scenes as the ' Distress for Rent,' he never falls into caricature, as has often happened to Hogarth, but with all the energy...the English. In many other respects, Wilkie reminds roe of the great Dutch painters of common life of the seventeenth century, and likewise in the choice... | |
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... language and colours, they show us man in his manifold weaknesses, errors, afflictions, and distresses, yet their humour is of such a kind that it never revolts our feelings. Wilkie is especially to be commended, that in such scenes as the Distress... 