Speer or other sitters I regard as proved both by moral considerations and by the fact that they are constantly reported as occurring when Mr. Moses was alone.
The tilting above noticed has been even more marked when the sittershave been removed from it to a distance of about two feet.
I carefully examined one in the stereoscope, and found that, while the two sitters were stereoscopic per se, the psychic figure was absolutely flat.
Lifting their hands completely off the table, the sitters placed themselves back in their chairs, with their hands folded across their chests.
Then rich people came and wanted Edwin to paint a portrait of their dog, and a studio was opened where the principal sitters were dogs.
Sitters in search of good portraits, cheap for cash, occasionally climbed the stairway.
Sitters came and a secretary in livery took their names and made appointments, as is done today in the office of a prosperous dentist.
He managed to work even in spite of loss of appetite; and sitters sometimes called at the studio and asked for "Master Van Dyck," whereas before there was only one master in the whole domain.
When sitters came, Giuseppe was only a valet: he cleaned the brushes, polished the knives, ran for water and hovered near to do his master's bidding.
The sitters have notebooks in which they record the numbers which win and on which they base their future "play.
In the secret hearts of the sitters some liken themselves to Napoleon, who, they are persuaded, was at once one of the greatest of gamblers and the greatest of men.
It is as a painter of character that he shows himself supreme, bringing out the personality of his sitters in their gestures and attitudes, and in the peculiarity of bearing and expression stamped upon them by temperament and habits.
As most of his sitters lived in Amsterdam, then a great centre of wealth and learning, Rembrandt moved to that city in 1631.
Lotto's sitters commune rather with their own souls, and in his devotional pieces he aims at a personal interpretation of religious motives.
In giving this delicacy to all sitters Van Dyck fell no doubt into mannerism; in giving it to great artists such as himself he was entirely right.
He endowed all his sitters alike with the same distinction of feature and elegance in bearing.
It is pretty of the painter or his sitters to include them in the family group.
After he had been standing for a considerable length of time, I asked him to rest, as I always prefer to give my sitters as little trouble and fatigue as possible.
These were followed by equally attractive sitters in Lady Lucia Warner, the Countess of Loudoun, and (the first) Mrs. Harry McCalmont.
I should like to be able to wind up mysitters like mechanical toys, to be amusing to order.
I have noticed, too, the brightness of step with which my sitters enter my studio, and, after a long sitting, the revived brightness brought about by the mention of lunch.
One of my first sitters was the uncle of my old friend, Edward Nash, of Rugby and 'Varsity fame, who made the stipulation that I should arrange a looking-glass in a position to allow of his watching me paint and to prevent him falling asleep.
If it had not been a question of time and money, I would not have encouraged sitters in my studio at all.
A peculiarity of some of my sitters in which I have rarely found an exception, is as to their professed ability to stand.
A great portrait painter, it has always seemed to me, is a kind of god in his way--knows everything his sitters know.
When Sir Joshua was at the height of his power, he was accustomed to receive six sitters a day, and he often completed a portrait in four hours.
He perfectly reproduced the delicate grace and beauty of some of his sitters and the brilliant, dazzling charms of others.
You are a greater baby than the sitters whom you propose to send to me," she exclaimed.
But sitters don't flock to South Washington Square, and it is hard to get a start.
All these are portraits, and as the sitters were not persons of august rank, we may conclude that they did not employ the most fashionable artists.
A four and two sitters don't go hanging and hovering, up with one tide and down with another, and both with and against another, without there being Custum 'Us at the bottom of it.
Critical and fastidioussitters have recognized his wisdom, and confess their debt to him as a moral adviser.
In portraits, Titian conveyed to the sitters and transferred to his canvas, not only a life-likeness, but a positively noble dignity in that likeness.
In the superficial refinement which was so essential a part of Van Dyck, he had the capacity of conferring on his sitters a reflection of his own outward stateliness and grace.
Of feminine charm (like many of his time and many of his predecessors) he was a master; no one has ever succeeded better in giving a certain aristocratic bearing to his sitters than he.
It is also typical of his pronounced mannerism, which would lead one to believe that before the days of photography sitters were easily contented on the score of resemblance.
Ever since marriage with one of hissitters in 1778, when he was only twenty-two, his future had been secure.
His earlier sitters included some of the most distinguished people in Scotland.
The frank way in which the sitters are regarded, and the lighting and placing of the heads are almost the only elements which hint their authorship.
This, of making the sitters affect to be what they were not, was bad enough--and it was any thing but poetical.
And consider, Eusebius, their misery in having suchsitters at all.
All you sitters expect to be flattered, and very little flattery do you bestow.
This was a flattering distinction, and, if I could have had entire faith in all the complimentary language addressed to me by the sitters at that stately table, I should have had visions of very magnificent things.
What was the crush of my obscure hopes, when the sitters on thrones were thus leveled with the earth?
He did not pose as a medium nor accept a fee, but simply said that he had something to show which his sitters were to explain as best they could, and with due consideration of trickery as a possible mode of explanation.
One of Slade's standard performances was the production of communications on a slate held beneath a table, in answer to questions asked by his sitters verbally or in writing, the writing in some cases being concealed in folded slips of paper.
The assurances of sitters that they know they did not move the table are equally valueless; and nothing but objective tests will suffice.
Never, perhaps, did painter rise so rapidly and from such slight foundations, and never was studio more crowded by sitters than that of Lawrence.
Other painters give us finer pictures; in none do we feel so anxious to know who the sitters were and what was their story.
His penetration is not equal to Lotto's, but he deals with his sitters with an observation which pierces below the surface.
She and the other artists of her circle lived the merry, busy life of the worker, and found in their art the antidote to the evil living and the dissipation of the gay world which providedsitters and patrons.
One half of the carriages that stopped at her husband's door contained sitters ambitious of the honours of her pencil.
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