Masterpieces in Colour
High over the western boundary of Cavendish Square rose a tripod wooden scaffolding, supporting a gigantic crane cutting the arch of the sky; on windy days the smoke from the engine was blown upwards into space. Below, twentieth-century mansions were growing on the site of old...
The names of Reynolds, Gainsborough, Raeburn, Romney, and Hoppner are universally known, and many of their pictures, not always the best examples, are familiar; yet how few Brit...
1. CHAPTER IHigh over the western boundary of Cavendish Square rose a tripod wooden scaffolding, supporting a gigantic crane cutting the arch of the sky; on windy days the smoke from the en...
6. CHAPTER VIThe life of Romney, apart from his paintings, has interested the world in two particulars--his desertion of his wife and his passion for Emma Lyon. This extraordinary woman, the...
2. CHAPTER IIThe rivalry between Reynolds and Romney, that echoes faintly from eighteenth-century memoirs, is focussed by Thurlow's remark made in 1781: "The town is divided between Reynolds...
4. CHAPTER IVThe National Gallery possesses in "Mrs. Mark Currie," purchased in 1897, a typical and charming Romney. The pose, the reticent colour, the simplicity of the design, the backgrou...
3. CHAPTER IIIDoubtless, the purchasers at public auction in 1896 of the "Ladies Caroline and Elizabeth Spencer," in white and red dresses, for L10,500, and, in 1902, of Miss Sarah Rodbard fo...