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#0096
Portraits of British Artists
coat, who had his own imbroglio with the Royal portrait off to Eartham, and refused to allow
Academy, where he exhibited a picture which was Romney to add anything to it. This entrancing
said to cast a doubt upon the fair fame of the portrait is said to be extremely like the painter,
president and the lady academician, Angelica and is full of character. The peculiar nature of
Kauffmann. Angelica herself hangs on a neigh- the man is shown in every feature. Years after-
bouring wall, one of the many charming bits of wards his son wrote the following sonnet upon this
vanity with which that over-wiitten and over-rated picture, more remarkable, perhaps, for its filial
artist strove to make herself immortal. It is piety than its poetic worth :
indeed a winsome face, and, if not in any way so
attractive as the well-known portrait of herself in Semblance exact of Him, who erst had skill
the Uffizij is yet a_ compensation for the acres of To slay the wasting hand of Time, and save
insipid sugary art which she diffused over society The living form of life, while in the grave
in her day.
On the same wall with Angelica hangs the large
The sad remains their destin'd lot fulfil
When I behold thee thus, unchanged still,
In musing mood, and with an aspect grave,
unfinished portrait of George Romney, by himself, T ,, , . •,, , ,
1 & J' J i I could almost with pleasing rapture rave
which remained in the possession of his descend- At the fond sight. t\\\ sad reflections fill
ants until May 1894, when, through the kindly My soul with grief. O hours of past delight
interposition of Mr. Agnew, it was secured for the For ever gone ! When I beheld his hand
nation. As is told in the biography of the painter Dash 011 thc canvns wilh creative mifht
... -r, 10 c 1 Visions of fancy, as by magic wand!
by his son, Romney, when 40 years ol age, began T,. , , , • ,, , ,
1 ' ■" b ' & Picture, nine lustrums now have quickly passed b
this portrait in the autumn of 1782, and afterwards sincc first j. saw thee thus-Alas! how chang'd
gave it to Hayley. Hayley, however, carried the am I!
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R A.
92
FROM THE PORTRAIT BY HIMSELF
coat, who had his own imbroglio with the Royal portrait off to Eartham, and refused to allow
Academy, where he exhibited a picture which was Romney to add anything to it. This entrancing
said to cast a doubt upon the fair fame of the portrait is said to be extremely like the painter,
president and the lady academician, Angelica and is full of character. The peculiar nature of
Kauffmann. Angelica herself hangs on a neigh- the man is shown in every feature. Years after-
bouring wall, one of the many charming bits of wards his son wrote the following sonnet upon this
vanity with which that over-wiitten and over-rated picture, more remarkable, perhaps, for its filial
artist strove to make herself immortal. It is piety than its poetic worth :
indeed a winsome face, and, if not in any way so
attractive as the well-known portrait of herself in Semblance exact of Him, who erst had skill
the Uffizij is yet a_ compensation for the acres of To slay the wasting hand of Time, and save
insipid sugary art which she diffused over society The living form of life, while in the grave
in her day.
On the same wall with Angelica hangs the large
The sad remains their destin'd lot fulfil
When I behold thee thus, unchanged still,
In musing mood, and with an aspect grave,
unfinished portrait of George Romney, by himself, T ,, , . •,, , ,
1 & J' J i I could almost with pleasing rapture rave
which remained in the possession of his descend- At the fond sight. t\\\ sad reflections fill
ants until May 1894, when, through the kindly My soul with grief. O hours of past delight
interposition of Mr. Agnew, it was secured for the For ever gone ! When I beheld his hand
nation. As is told in the biography of the painter Dash 011 thc canvns wilh creative mifht
... -r, 10 c 1 Visions of fancy, as by magic wand!
by his son, Romney, when 40 years ol age, began T,. , , , • ,, , ,
1 ' ■" b ' & Picture, nine lustrums now have quickly passed b
this portrait in the autumn of 1782, and afterwards sincc first j. saw thee thus-Alas! how chang'd
gave it to Hayley. Hayley, however, carried the am I!
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R A.
92
FROM THE PORTRAIT BY HIMSELF