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Constable, John, 1776–1837
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
"'Sir,' said Dr. Johnson ..."
1911
2
Barry, James, 1741–1806
"A genius of first rank, lost to the world"
2014
3
Hamber, Anthony
"A higher branch of the art"
c1996
4
"A house in the country"
[1971]
5
"A house in the country"
[1971]
6
Gerdts, William H
"A man of genius"
c1979
7
Kinross, Felicity
"A most excellent brick mansion"
1986
8
"A note of summer"
1974
9
Lane Fine Art (Firm)
"A Perfect likenesse"
1987
10
Covent Garden Gallery
"A place in the country"
1979]
11
Freed, Eugenie R., 1935–
"A portion of his life"
c1994
12
Merwe, Pieter van der
"A refuge for all"
c1994
13
Buchowska, Dominika
"A sense of form"
2015
14
Barker, Elizabeth E
"A very great and uncommon genius in a peculiar way"
2003
15
Cove, Sarah
"All that glitters ..."
16
Simon, Robin
"All the original music"
2013
17
"Among the whores and thieves"
1997
18
Kaimowitz, Jeffrey H
"An excellent inventive and prudentiall witt"
1992
19
Simon, Robin
"An unjointed caterpillar"
2013
20
Morris, Edward
"And when did you last see your father?"
1992
21
Bennett, Shelley M., 1947–
"Art of wealth"
2013
22
"Artists who died young"
1938]
23
"Atmosphere and light"
2006
24
Clark, T. J. (Timothy J.)
"Attempting impossibilities"
2015
25
Gibson, Katharine Mary Beatrice
"Best belov'd of kings"
c1997
26
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
"Birds Nest" Hunt and his followers
1986
27
Strindberg, Madeleine
"Blades"
[1989?]
28
"Bordered with lace"
1950
29
Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845–1916
"Bric à brac";
1888
30
Edelstein, T. J
"But who shall paint the griefs of those oppress'd?"
1982
31
Marillier, H. C. (Henry Currie), 1865–1951
"Christie's" 1766 to 1925,
1926
32
"Coming home to Falmouth"
1985
33
D'Oench, Ellen
"Copper into gold"
c1999
34
"Damn the war!"
[2008]
35
Rothenberg, Jacob
"Descensus ad terram"
1967
36
Dixon, Yvonne Romney
"Designs from fancy"
1998
37
Goddard, Richard (Richard Neal Basire)
"Drawing on copper"
[November, 2016]
38
"English 19th century watercolours and drawings"
1975
39
Victoria and Albert Museum
"Englishmen in Italy"
[1968]
40
"Every corner was a picture"
c1999
41
Manchester City Art Gallery
"For friendship's sake";
1969]
42
"For king or parliament?"
1978
43
"Girl with the gardenias" and other recent sculpture by Jacob Epstein
1944
44
Spector, Sheila A., 1946–
"Glorious incomprehensible"
c2001
45
Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery, and Museums
"Gothick"
[1975]
46
Trumble, Angus
"Grand Niagara"
2013
47
Détis, Elisabeth
"Guess at the rest"
2010
48
Johnston, Carol Ann
"Heavenly perspective"
c1992
49
Hunt, Colin A
"Here it is" knowlege of London
1958
50
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
"History is an art"
[2023]
51
"I feel included"
c2008
52
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943–
"I never saw that you did painting need"
2006
53
"I write you out of the real Arabian Nights"
1984
54
Caudle, James J.
"In the midst of the jovial crowd"
2013
55
Vogler, Thomas A.
"In vain the Eloquent tongue"
56
"India remembered"
1976
57
Lane, Charles
"It was a nice looking horse"
1987
58
Rudd, Andrew
"Knight errant of the distressed"
[2022]
59
"Leather in life"
1968
60
Binkowski, Kraig
"Light and wood
2016
61
Wood, Pamela J
"Made at Nottm"
1980
62
Wilcox, Scott, 1952–
"Magick Land"
2013
63
"Masters of the sea"
1984
64
Gamon, Patricia Bradshaw
"Millais' luck"
c1991
65
Aronson, Mark N
"Moth or butterfly?"
[2021]
66
Binkowski, Kraig
"Move to the light"
67
"My highest pleasures"
2007
68
Chadwick, Helen
"My personal museum"
c2004
69
Battisson, Clair
"Natural born quillers"
70
Wihl, Gary, 1953–
"Neither a palace nor of crystal" ;
71
"O'er land and sea"
1977
72
Mason, Emma
"Oh, Mr Tavener, I wish I had the original!"
[2010]
73
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803–1874
"Original views of London as it is
1926
74
"Painter, gardener, scholar"
[2019]
75
"Painting from nature"
1968
76
"Printing and the mind of man"
1999
77
Simon, Robin
"Punch has no feelings"
2013
78
Snead, Stella
"Rediscovery"
[1999]
79
"Simplest country gentlefolks"
1994
80
"Sind Briten hier?"
1981
81
Culkin, Kate, 1969–
"Slight a girl as she was"
c2002
82
"Small pictures for small rooms" No. II
1966
83
"Squanderous and lavish profusion"
c1995
84
Simon, Robin
"Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood"
2013
85
May, Suzanne E
"Sublime and infernal reveries"
86
University of Pennsylvania. Libraries
"Surely no person was ever so happy as I am"
2007
87
Wood, Anthony à, 1632–1695
"Survey of the antiquities of the city of Oxford"
1889-99
88
"Tate in the North"
1985?
89
Erdman, David V
"Terrible Blake in his pride"
90
Conekin, Becky
"The autobiography of a nation"
2003
91
Conekin, Becky
"The autobiography of a nation"
2003
92
Crosby, Njideka Akunyili, 1983–
"The beautyful ones"
2019
93
Wood, Stephen
"The cap ... suppos'd to have been designed for ye young chevalier'
94
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
"The cloud watchers"
[1975]
95
Edmunds, W. Hawksley
"The Derbyshire Times" guide to Winfield Manor
[19--?]
96
"The English tradition"
1974
97
Baker, Malcolm, 1945–
"The faithless column and the crumbling bust"
2004
98
"The field calls me to labour"
2008
99
Goddard, Richard (Richard Neal Basire)
"The Genius and abilities of the greatest and most rival nations"
[2024]
100
"The glimmering landscape"
1980
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