 | 1849 - 700 str.
...proof, from the record of a child of genins, to whom we have already alluded. " When a sitter came I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I wanted no more. I put away my canvas and took another sitter. AVhen I wished to resume my first portrait,... | |
 | 1875 - 676 str.
...stated that he was confined in a madhouse for thirty years. Furthermore, that he painted in oil, and once " produced three hundred portraits from his own hand in one year." Is there any good authority for this ? Gilchrist, in his long and careful biography, says not a word... | |
 | Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1853 - 572 str.
...method of procedure, and he related what follows : ' When a sitter came, I looked attentively on him for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I did not require a longer sitting. I removed the canvas, and passed to another person. When I wished... | |
 | Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1860 - 456 str.
...finished, and a most striking likeness. " On asking him to explain it, he said, 'When a sitter came. I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I wanted no more — I put away my canvas, and took another sitter. When I wished to resume my first... | |
 | William Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote Denton - 1863 - 392 str.
...his method of procedure, and he related what follows: 'When a sitter came I looked attentively on him for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I did not require a longer sitting. I removed the canvas and passed to another person. When I wished... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 284 str.
...rapidity of execution was marvellous, explained his mode of work in this way : " When a sitter came, I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I wanted no more — I put away my canvas, and took another sitter. When I wished to resume my first... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 606 str.
...rapidity of execution was marvellous, explained his mode of work in this way : " When a sitter came, I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I wanted no more — I put away my canvas, and took another sitter. When I wished to resume my first... | |
 | 1875 - 822 str.
...hallucinations, mentions a singular illustration of this faculty in the case of Wm. Blake. This artist once " produced three hundred portraits from his own...sitter came to him, he looked at him attentively for half-an-hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas; then he put away the canvas and took another... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 452 str.
...hallucinations, mentions a singular illustration of this faculty in the case of Wm. Blake. This artist once ' produced three hundred portraits from his own...sitter came to him, he looked at him attentively for half-an-hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas ; then he put away the canvas and took another... | |
 | 1878 - 322 str.
...he required but one sitting and painted with wonderful facility. " When a sitter came," he said, " I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I wanted no more ; I put away my canvas and took another sitter. When I wished to resume my first portrait,... | |
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I looked at him attentively for half an hour, sketching from time to time on the canvas. I wanted no more ; I put away my canvas and took another sitter. When I wished to resume my first portrait, I... 
