The Portraiture of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Portraiture of Shakespeare Doubtless the chances arc against the success of such attempts: but it is not difficult to see that in one respect at least they may be helpful and instructive. If we only consider what a bust or a portrait must be in order to express the ´form and favour´ of a man at his best, we shall readily arrive at a principle, which, while it serves to explain that diversity of expression which is found in different copies from the same picture, to some extent justifies the attempt to recover a lost likeness. I have frequently observed that the ´portrait of a gentleman,´ painted by an indifferent artist, bears a certain resemblance to the artist himself. In the Epistle of St. James it is asserted that a man ´beholding his natural face in a glass, goeth his way and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.´ I am not sure that this is strictly true; but, if it be so, I am none the less convinced that every man has a latent impression of his own countenance, which he is more apt to delineate than any other. Moreover, I have observed that in portraits, executed by the best artists and possessing all the attributes of a faithful likeness, there is always an expression which it is impossible to attribute to anything seen in the face of the sitter. The truth seems to be, that the artist who has studied his subject, so as to seize the expression of the face at its best, is dependent upon his own powers of imagination and memory: and on these he draws largely to supplement the expression of the blank and wearied face which periodically confronts him in his studio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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