...Reynolds devoted his Fourteenth Discourse (December 10, 1788) to Gainsborough, of whom he predicted that " the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity in the history of art among the very first " of the English school. He noticed. among other characteristics of Gainsborough's...

...GAINSBOROUGH If ever this nation should produce a genius sufficient to acquire to us the honorable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in this history of art, among the very first of that rising name. — Sir Joshua Reynolds GAINSBOROUGH...

...Ruskin calls him "the purist colourist of the English School." ' 'If ever this nation should produce a genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable...Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in this history of the art, among the very first of that rising name.' This was the opinion expressed...

...Discourses, is interesting reading. In it Reynolds gives his estimate of his rival's worth. " If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...the art, among the very first of that rising name." Many years previously Reynolds had said : " The works, whether of poets, painters, moralists, or historians,...

...Gainsborough, he says: "If ever this nation should produce a genius sufficient to acquire to us the honorable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity in this history of the art, among the very first of that rising name." This was the opinion expressed...

...GAINSBOROUGH If ever this nation should produce a genius sufficient to acquire to us the honorable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in this history of art, among the very first of that rising name. — Sir Joshua Reynolds GAINSBOROUGH...

...he said at the opening of his XlVth Discourse, delivered to the Royal Academy in 1788: 'If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire...history of the Art, among the very first of that rising name.'3 William Hayes, Professor of Music at Oxford, had in 1753 summarized his hopes for his profession...

...ol an English School, the name ol Gainsborough will be transmitted to posteritv, in the historv oI the Art, among the very first of that rising name....we must expect our advances to be attended with old preludices, as adversaries, and not as supporters; standing in this respect in a verv different situation...

...above wood-engraving is taken — " If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire us the honourable distinction of an English school,...the art, among the very first of that rising name. A tribute of applause so un • qualified from a contemporary with whom the subject ol hia eulogy had...

...says, in one of his academic discourses, " If ever this naiion should produce genius enough to acquire us the honourable distinction of an English school,...to posterity, in the history of the art, among the first of that rising name." • In another part of the same discourse, Sir Joshua expresses the delight...