 I took the man and sat him in the chair, where I saw him as distinctly as if he had been before me in his own proper person — I may almost say more vividly. I looked from time to time at the imaginary figure, then worked with my pencil, then referred...  The Popular Science Monthly - Página 7041878Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1849 - 700 páginas
...proof, from the record of a child of genins, to whom we have already alluded. " When a sitter came I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching...more. I put away my canvas and took another sitter. AVhen I wished to resume my first portrait, I took t/te man, and set him in lite clutir, where I saw... | |
 | Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1853 - 572 páginas
...method of procedure, and he related what follows : ' When a sitter came, I looked attentively on him for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I did not require a longer sitting. I removed the canvas, and passed to another person. When I wished... | |
 | Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1859 - 476 páginas
...On asking him to explain it, he said, ' When a Bitter came, I looked at him attentively for half-anD hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I...wished to resume my first portrait, I took the man and sat Mm in the chair, where I saw him as distinctly as if he had teen before me in *7 */ i/ his own... | |
 | Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1860 - 456 páginas
...finished, and a most striking likeness. " On asking him to explain it, he said, 'When a sitter came. I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching...wished to resume my first portrait, I took the man and sat him in the chair, where I saw him as distinctly as if he had been before me in his own proper person... | |
 | William Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote Denton - 1863 - 392 páginas
...his method of procedure, and he related what follows: 'When a sitter came I looked attentively on him for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I did not require a longer sitting. I removed the canvas and passed to another person. When I wished... | |
 | John Timbs - 1866 - 366 páginas
...asking him to explain it, he said, ' When a sitter came, I looked at him attentively for half-an-hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I wanted...sitter. When I wished to resume my first portrait, J took the man and sat him in the chair, where I saw him as distinctly as if he had been before me... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 606 páginas
...rapidity of execution was marvellous, explained his mode of work in this way : " When a sitter came, I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching...sitter. When I wished to resume my first portrait, / took the man and sat him in the chair, where I saw him as distinctly as if he had been before me... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 284 páginas
...rapidity of execution was marvellous, explained his mode of work in this way : " When a sitter came, I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching...sitter. When I wished to resume my first portrait, / took the man and sat him in the chair, where I saw him as distinctly as if he had been before me... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1873 - 506 páginas
...on what this peculiar power of rapid work depended, he answered that when a sitter came to him, he looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas ; then he put away the canvas and took another sitter. When he wished to resume the first portrait,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1879 - 514 páginas
...that he only required one sitting and painted with great facility. " When a sitter came," said he, " I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching...sitter. When I wished to resume my first portrait, / took the man and set him in the chair, where I saw him as distinctly as if he had been before me... | |
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