DOI Heft:
No. 48 (March, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Cust, Lionel: Some portraits of British artists at the National Portrait Gallery, London
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0095
Portraits of British Artists
On the same wall hangs a portrait of John of the Earl of Sandwich, Sir Elijah Impey, and
Zoffany, the Bohemian artist, and one of the most himself.
successful portiait-painters of the last century, On the same wall also are to be seen two por-
whose merits as an artist are at last recognised, traits, one by himself, of the parsimonious recluse,
He owed much of his fame to Garrick and the James Northcote, the pupil and biographer of
theatre, and also to his sojourn in India. Zof- Reynolds. Northcote, in addition to his innumer-
fany cannot be classed in the ranks of genius with able sitters, painted several portraits of himself, ap-
such artists as Reynolds and Gainsborough. His parently delighting to portray his pinched and
art does not appeal to the sentiments or emotions nervous face, which, as Fuseli rudely put it, looked
of the human heart. However, so excellent a like a rat which had seen a cat. The profile por-
painter of portraits was he, that it is a matter of trait here is not one of his most successful render-
regret not to find in the collection of national ings of his own features. Next to Barry hangs the
portraits better examples of his art than those bluff Irish face of Nathaniel Hone, in a weird blue
On the same wall hangs a portrait of John of the Earl of Sandwich, Sir Elijah Impey, and
Zoffany, the Bohemian artist, and one of the most himself.
successful portiait-painters of the last century, On the same wall also are to be seen two por-
whose merits as an artist are at last recognised, traits, one by himself, of the parsimonious recluse,
He owed much of his fame to Garrick and the James Northcote, the pupil and biographer of
theatre, and also to his sojourn in India. Zof- Reynolds. Northcote, in addition to his innumer-
fany cannot be classed in the ranks of genius with able sitters, painted several portraits of himself, ap-
such artists as Reynolds and Gainsborough. His parently delighting to portray his pinched and
art does not appeal to the sentiments or emotions nervous face, which, as Fuseli rudely put it, looked
of the human heart. However, so excellent a like a rat which had seen a cat. The profile por-
painter of portraits was he, that it is a matter of trait here is not one of his most successful render-
regret not to find in the collection of national ings of his own features. Next to Barry hangs the
portraits better examples of his art than those bluff Irish face of Nathaniel Hone, in a weird blue