Thomas Lawrence (Chaucer Art)
Edition: Ill edition
Publisher: International Publishers Marketing
Published: January 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781904449416
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Individual Painters And Their Work; Figure Drawing; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Individual Artist; Europe; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; European; History - General; Art / Individual Artist
First sentence: On the other hand, as early as 1787, when he was only eighteen years old, Lawrence wrote to his friend Mary Hartley about, '. . . . the great end of painting, . . . . the expressing with truth the human heart in the traits of the countenance' and in 1821, in his first Address to the Royal Academy students given on the occasion of the annual prize-giving for, amongst others, the best historical work, Lawrence said, 'Composition, colour, arrangement of light and shade, all are lost in the power of expression.