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COSTUME.
ladies and children in white muslin dresses, or in light
drapery of a warm neutral tint. He appears to have re-
served his strong colours for the portraits of men, who
in his day wore more lively colours than they do at the
present time.
Generally speaking, Vandyck introduced more positive
colour into his pictures than Reynolds. He frequently
employed the three primitives, Red, Blue and Yellow, and
the tertiary neutrals (browns and drabs). Green and
purple are of less frequent occurrence, but he has some
splendid orange-coloured draperies, which he heightened
until they approached scarlet, and which he contrasted
with blue.
Blue is a favourite colour with ladies, but the arrange-
ment of such a mass of cold colour is a matter of some
difficulty with the young painter. Sir Joshua says, that
the masses of light in a picture should be of the warm
and mellow kind, such as reds and yellows. To disprove
this opinion, Gainsborough painted his celebrated picture
in the Grosvenor Gallery, which is known by the name of
the " Blue Boy." It is a full-length picture of a boy in
a blue satin dress, surrounded by warm and rich browns.
By some artists, he is considered to have successfully
refuted Sir Joshua's proposition; but Sir T. Lawrence
considers that he succeeded only partially—that the diffi-
culty was combated, not surmounted.
COSTUME.
ladies and children in white muslin dresses, or in light
drapery of a warm neutral tint. He appears to have re-
served his strong colours for the portraits of men, who
in his day wore more lively colours than they do at the
present time.
Generally speaking, Vandyck introduced more positive
colour into his pictures than Reynolds. He frequently
employed the three primitives, Red, Blue and Yellow, and
the tertiary neutrals (browns and drabs). Green and
purple are of less frequent occurrence, but he has some
splendid orange-coloured draperies, which he heightened
until they approached scarlet, and which he contrasted
with blue.
Blue is a favourite colour with ladies, but the arrange-
ment of such a mass of cold colour is a matter of some
difficulty with the young painter. Sir Joshua says, that
the masses of light in a picture should be of the warm
and mellow kind, such as reds and yellows. To disprove
this opinion, Gainsborough painted his celebrated picture
in the Grosvenor Gallery, which is known by the name of
the " Blue Boy." It is a full-length picture of a boy in
a blue satin dress, surrounded by warm and rich browns.
By some artists, he is considered to have successfully
refuted Sir Joshua's proposition; but Sir T. Lawrence
considers that he succeeded only partially—that the diffi-
culty was combated, not surmounted.