The treatment of nature in English poetry between Pope and WordsworthReynolds, Myra
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The treatment of nature in English poetry between Pope and Wordsworth
Reynolds, Myra
English poetry -- History and criticism; Nature in literature
[567] Among Vandyck’s contemporaries in England the one who made most
successful use of landscape was Mytens (in England after 1618), another
foreigner, to whom is attributed the interesting portrait of “Sir
Jeffrey Hudson, the Dwarf” at Hampton Court. The diminutive figure
is represented as standing in a full landscape in which there is an
admirable effect of distance and of clear, harmonious coloring.
[568] Now in William III’s State Bedroom at Hampton Court but formerly
in the Queen’s Bedchamber at Windsor Castle.
[569] The ablest of Lely’s pupils was John Greenhill (1649–76). One of
his portraits at the Dulwich Gallery is described by Mr. Cartwright
as “My first wife’s pictur, Like a sheppardess.” It shows a charming
lady in low satin bodice and pearls, her right hand resting on the
head of a sheep, while behind her is a landscape of brown trees and
rough tower-crowned hills under a gray and misty sky. William Wissing
(1656–87), another pupil of Lely, and a rival of Kneller in popular
favor, also made some attractive use of vaguely indicated stretches
of landscape, but usually his portrait accessories were pillars,
heavily draped curtains, stormy skies, with, as the loveliest point, a
flowering rose-bush, an elaborately painted thistle, a vase of flowers,
in the foreground. Two characteristic portraits are those of Mrs. Knott
and Mrs. Lawson at Hampton Court.
[570] Reproduced from engraving by Isaac Becket in Cyril Davenport,
“Mezzotints,” p. 94.
[571] Engraved by J. Smith. Reproduced in Davenport, “Mezzotints,”
p.100.
[572] In William III’s Presence Chamber at Hampton Court. “Lady
Middleton” is No. 54.
[573] Reproduced in Mrs. Oliphant’s “The Reign of Queen Anne.”
[574] Reproduced in Walpole, “Letters,” IX, 484, and II, Frontispiece.
[575] Engraved by J. McArdell, a famous example of his work. Reproduced
in Davenport, “Mezzotints.”
[576] Horace Walpole, “Anecdotes of Painting,” II, 442.
[577] Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, F.S.A., “Sir Joshua Reynolds,
F.R.A.,” p. 23.
[578] The last four portraits mentioned are in the National Gallery.
[579] Reproduced in Lord Gower’s “Sir Joshua Reynolds.”
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