George Morland: His Life and Works

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A. and C. Black, 1907 - 289 Seiten
 

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Seite 77 - ... with whom he had business, or who enjoyed his special favour. He might have been said to be in an academy in the midst of models. He would get one to stand for a hand, another for a head, an attitude, or a figure, according as their countenance or character suited.
Seite 140 - Finding, however, that there was no emolument attached to it, he relinquished the distinction, observing that a 'plain George Morland would always sell his pictures, and there was more honour in being a fine painter than a titled gentleman ; that he would have borne the vanity of a title had there been any income to accompany it, but as matters stood, he would wear none of the fooleries of his ancestors.
Seite 215 - He generally began upon the canvas with the chalk or brush at once, sometimes even without knowing what he was going to paint, inventing as he proceeded.
Seite 47 - I went there and was weighed, and was afterwards dressed in a tight striped jacket and jockey's cap, and lifted on the horse, led to the start, placed in the rank and file ; three parts of the people out of four laid great bets that I should win the cup, etc. Then the drums beat, and we started ; 'twas a four-mile heat, and the first three miles I could not keep the horse behind them, being so spirited an animal ; by that means he exhausted himself, and I soon had the mortification to see them come...
Seite 35 - His meals were carried up to him by the shop-boy ; and when his dinner was brought, which generally consisted of sixpennyworth of meat from a cook's shop, and a pint of beer, he would sometimes venture to ask if he might have a pennyworth of pudding.
Seite 63 - When painting his juvenile subjects, he would invite the children of the neighbourhood to play about in his room, and made sketches of them whenever any interesting situations occurred ; justly observing, that to take them thus, in their unconscious moments, is the best mode of studying their peculiar attitudes, and to catch a thousand various graces, of which it is impossible to conceive a perfect idea in any other way. Grown persons may be placed in appropriate postures ; but with children this...
Seite 199 - ... waited for an answer at the Cavendish Square Coffee House, the corner of Princes Street. There, in a little back parlour, his friend found him, with a bason of rum and -milk, a large pointer by his side, a Guinea pig in his handkerchief, and a beautiful American squirrel he had just bought for .his wife.
Seite 50 - Last Monday week almost everybody in Margate was drunk, by reason of the Freemasons' meeting and fox-hunt, and all my male sitters disappointed me. Some sent me word they were engaged; some not very well; others could not get their hair dressed. But I found it was one general disorder.
Seite 112 - If an ostler or post-boy applauded his observations he was sure to be touched in the palm with half-a-crown, or perhaps to receive a pair of leather breeches little the worse for wear. His acquaintances of this cast were so numerous, that there was scarcely a driver on the north road, within fifty miles of London, that was not known to him ; nor was there a blood-horse of any note whose pedigree and performances he could not relate with astonishing facility.
Seite 96 - He might have been said to live in an academy in the midst of models. He would get one to stand or sit for a hand, another for a head, an attitude, or a figure, according as their countenance or character suited. In this manner he painted some of his best pictures, while his companions were regaling on gin and red herrings around him.

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