Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ This is how we treat Art in this Country, and with Paintings prefented to the Nation buried in a Vault, but sorry Encouragement is given to Genius; and no Wonder that Artists do Pictures for Furniture to sell to the great and small Vulgar, and so produce the Kind of Works that make up the greater Part of the Exhibition. ”
Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ To see how easy it is to distinguish them by their Styles after two or three Years' Experience: as one by his Dogs, that might be expected to bark, or to talk rather, with their Looks and Ways like human Creatures. ”
Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ THIS Morning with my Wife to the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, where 611 Paintings, besides Miniatures and other Drawings, and Pieces of Sculpture, making altogether 1341 Works of Art, and methought it would be strange if there were not some Masterpiece among vo many. ”
