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Title: Fair women in painting and poetry
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sharp, William, 1855-1905
Subjects: Women in literature Women in art Women Beauty, Personal
Publisher: London : Seeley New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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got the famous Boy at the Stile for a solo on the violin.Wiltshire, the carrier, earned a gallery of pictures by a few lifts in hiswaggon. Sometimes Gainsboroughs impulsiveness in this way ran awaywith him. At Mr. Agars he saw the Velasquez now in the DulwichGallery. Tell your master, he said to the servant, that I will givehim a thousand pounds for that picture. The offer was promptly accepted,when the painter was obliged to confess he could afford no such sum. The story of Sir Joshuas portrait has been already told. Northcotetells us that Gainsborough once said that Sir Joshuas pictures in theirmost decayed state were better than those of any other artist at their best.Going through the Academy with Sir George Beaumont, and examiningone Reynolds after another, Gainsborough exclaimed, glancing at thegalaxy of canvases, Damn him ! How various he is ! The heat of his impulses was never better shown than in his dealingswith the little gipsy, John Hill, a boy on whom nature had bestowed
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Madame Baccetli. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH 73 more than an ordinary share of good looks, with an intelligence rarelyfound in a woodmans cottage. Gainsborough looked at the boy with apainters eye, and acting as usual from the impulse of the moment,offered to take him home and provide for his future welfare. Jack Hill,as Gainsborough always called him, was at once arrayed in his Sundaybest and sent with the gentleman, laden with as many virtuous preceptsas would have filled a copy-book. Mrs. Gainsborough was delightedwith the boy, and the young ladies equally rejoiced in such a good-looking addition to their establishment. Mrs. Fischer, indeed, talkedof adopting him. But whether, like the wild Indian of the prairie, Jackpined for the unrestrained freedom of his native woods—the blackberriesand the roasted sloes ; or, what is more likely, feared chastisement forhis many ungrateful doings, after a brief trial, he ran away, and thoughbrought back and forgiven by his kind-hearted master, he wil

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