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...first signs of his manner. He possessed a wonderful pictorial memory and there was scarce a tree or bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early landscapes are of a reddish color, usually contain a gnarled oak, a girl and a boy, or some cattle, and are carefully worked out in detail...
...early years of the reign of George III. were the greatest of Reynolds's life. He was president of the Royal Academy. Among his intimate friends were Johnson, Goldsmith, Gilbert, Fox and Burke. He visited France and Holland and brought to England the choicest productions of the Dutch School. He painted innumerable pictures of children some of which are the best he ever...
...said that the mere copier of nature could do nothing good, and that the greatest artist is he who most appeals to the imagination. Reynolds did not follow in practice what he believed in theory. His happiest efforts are those in which he followed the precepts of Dutch and Venetian Schools...
Principal Disputants. - Affirmative: F. H. Kinnicutt '97, R. C. Thomas '96. - Negative: Holmes Whittemore '95, H. W. Dutch...
Principal Disputants. - Affirmative: F. H. Kinnicutt '97, R. C. Thomas '96 - Negative: Holmes Whittemore '95, H. W. Dutch...