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GAINSBOROUGH
her features had reflected superbly the passions
of Lady Macbeth, . . . and Gainsborough in-
stinctively perceived that a somewhat solemn
flow of mass and line would afford a more
coherent setting to her loveliness than the easy
and more careless arrangement he chose for
Mrs. Beaufoy.”
Gainsborough the portrait-painter will live for
ever, and so will those whom he has immortal-
ized by his brush. His pictures are indeed, as
Sir Walter Armstrong justly says : “ Gems born
of the fire struck out at the contact of a rare
artistic spirit with the beauty of the world”;
they rank with those of Reynolds, of Van Dyck
and other inspired interpreters of human nature,
but are differentiated from the work of all other
masters by their own distinct individuality.
GAINSBOROUGH
her features had reflected superbly the passions
of Lady Macbeth, . . . and Gainsborough in-
stinctively perceived that a somewhat solemn
flow of mass and line would afford a more
coherent setting to her loveliness than the easy
and more careless arrangement he chose for
Mrs. Beaufoy.”
Gainsborough the portrait-painter will live for
ever, and so will those whom he has immortal-
ized by his brush. His pictures are indeed, as
Sir Walter Armstrong justly says : “ Gems born
of the fire struck out at the contact of a rare
artistic spirit with the beauty of the world”;
they rank with those of Reynolds, of Van Dyck
and other inspired interpreters of human nature,
but are differentiated from the work of all other
masters by their own distinct individuality.