International studio . 118 KRALJEVIC MARKO (LEGENDARYHERO OF THE JUGO SLAVS) BY BRANCO DESHKOVITCH. THE BRIDGE AT AVIGNONFROM THE PAINTING BYFRANK BRANGWYN, RA. ir REVIEWS. John Zoffany, : His Life and Works,1725-1810. By Lady Victoria Mannersand Dr. G. C. Williamson. (London :John Lane.) £7 7s. net.—Of obscurebeginnings—even the year of his birthseems to have been a matter of uncertaintyuntil recently—John Zoffany, who is be-lieved to have been of Czech origin, cameto England when a young man, and incourse of time became one of the fashion-able portrait-painters of his day. He wasone of
International studio . 118 KRALJEVIC MARKO (LEGENDARYHERO OF THE JUGO SLAVS) BY BRANCO DESHKOVITCH. THE BRIDGE AT AVIGNONFROM THE PAINTING BYFRANK BRANGWYN, RA. ir REVIEWS. John Zoffany, : His Life and Works,1725-1810. By Lady Victoria Mannersand Dr. G. C. Williamson. (London :John Lane.) £7 7s. net.—Of obscurebeginnings—even the year of his birthseems to have been a matter of uncertaintyuntil recently—John Zoffany, who is be-lieved to have been of Czech origin, cameto England when a young man, and incourse of time became one of the fashion-able portrait-painters of his day. He wasone of the Foundation Members of theRoyal Academy, and enjoyed the patronageof the Court of George IIL It was, how-ever, mainly to David Garrick, the greatactor, that he was indebted for his advance-ment after leading a very precarious exis-tence as assistant to a painter who was verymuch his inferior. Garrick discerned inhim a talent above the ordinary in thepainting of theatrical compositions, and itis upon pictures of this kind that Zoffanystitle to fame rests. Such, indeed, seemsto have bee
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