This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... AN ARTIST'S LOVE STORY Among the men who moved in the artistic circles of a hundred years ago, there can have been few figures so striking and attractive as that of the young artist, destined, a few years later, to become, as Sir Thomas Lawrence, the President of the Royal Academy. Those who knew him ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... AN ARTIST'S LOVE STORY Among the men who moved in the artistic circles of a hundred years ago, there can have been few figures so striking and attractive as that of the young artist, destined, a few years later, to become, as Sir Thomas Lawrence, the President of the Royal Academy. Those who knew him best agree in representing him, altogether apart from his professional reputation, as an extraordinarily accomplished and most fascinating man. In youth his features were so beautiful that his master, the artist Hoare, said that if he had to choose a head for a picture of Christ he should select Lawrence's; and though the quality of its beauty could not but change with advancing years, his face remained eminently handsome and pleasing in later life. His figure and carriage were graceful, as would be expected in the case of an accomplished dancer and fencer. He was one of the best amateur billiard players in England, though he abandoned the cue, as it was commonly reported, on being warned by a friendly Academician that this accomplishment, if talked of, would be a bar to his professional success. He was, moreover, an excellent violinist and singer, an admirable reciter of blank verse, and, on public occasions, a polished speaker, while his manners and A deportment were such as to earn the approbation of no less a personage than the "First Gentleman in Europe," who pronounced him "a high-bred gentleman." The wonder excited by such a catalogue of accomplishments, natural or acquired, is not lessened when one recalls the circumstances of Lawrence's birth and early years. Born and bred in an inn; with little or no schooling, save as a child at Bristol, and, later on, some instruction in French and Latin from a Dissenting minister at Devizes;...
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