This artist's landscapes include Opening in the Woods, which may have been painted from his home on Richmond Hill. He argued that painters should not portray the defects of Alexander the Great or Agesilaus (ag-uh-SEEL-owse) in a lecture series on history painting. He used himself to model the facial expressions of the figure allegorizing Pity in a painting where the figure allegorizing Terror clutches a dagger in the back
This artist's landscapes include Opening in the Woods, which may have been painted from his home on Richmond Hill. He argued that painters should not portray the defects of Alexander the Great or Agesilaus (ag-uh-SEEL-owse) in a lecture series on history painting. He used himself to model the facial expressions of the figure allegorizing Pity in a painting where the figure allegorizing Terror clutches a dagger in the background. A woman wears a string of pearls, a diamond diadem, and a gold dress with scalloped leaves in a (*) portrait of a Welsh tragedienne. This man articulated the "grand style" in his lecture series Discourses on Art. This artist featured an actress sitting on a throne in his portrait Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse. For 10 points, name this first president of the Royal Academy of the Arts, an artistic rival to Thomas Gainsborough.
This artist's landscapes include Opening in the Woods, which may have been painted from his home on Richmond Hill.