“Lord Goschen’s ‘Introductory notes’ will probably attract more attention than the essays to which they are prefixed.”
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Gosse, Edmund William, ed. British portrait painters and engravers of the eighteenth century, Kneller to Reynolds. *$50; *$70. Goupil.
This volume “is not so much a history of the subject as it is a collection of plates after those mezzotints, ‘plain and colored,’ in which the enchanting portraits painted by fashionable artists who were also men of genius, were reproduced with an elegance and skill unsurpassed by the originals.... Mr. Gosse’s text provides an instructive accompaniment to the illustrations, but it is as a picture gallery in little that this will find its appreciative public.”—Atlan.
“The introductory essay on the status of the portrait painter during the eighteenth century has afforded Mr. Gosse a theme to which his wide knowledge of eighteenth-century literature has enabled him to do full justice.”