Jonathan Richardson

thumb|Self portrait, 1729 Jonathan Richardson (1665 – 1745), sometimes called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son, was an English artist, collector of drawings, and writer on art, working almost entirely as a portrait-painter in London Quotes Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725) Painting is that pleasant amusement...being one of the means whereby we convey our ideas to each other. p. 2 Words paint to the imagination, but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way. p. 3 The theatre gives us representations of things..., and there we see a sort of moving, speaking pictures, but these are transient; whereas painting remains and is always at hand. p. 4 The pleasure that painting as a dumb art give us, is like what we have from music; its beautiful forms, colours and harmony are to the eye what sounds and the harmony...are to the ear. p. 5 In picture we never die, never decay, or grow older. p. 7 External link Category:1665 births Category:1745 deaths Category:Painters from England Category:People from London