I do not understand the French language, this is the image TH GAINSBOROUGH: Miss Margaret Gainsborough. I took from an ancient French magazine that I found in my house. And some quotes in the French language, then I tried to change it in English, but I do not understand.
TH GAINSBOROUGH: Miss Margaret Gainsborough, National Gallery, Londres
en découvrir le pittoresque elle n'a pas traversé l'âge ingrat, les classes de grammaire, les inquiétudes de la croissance. Elle est apparue en pleine beauté, digne héri- tière des plus habiles praticiens de la couleur. Si Reynolds et Gainsborough ont pu glorifier la race anglaise, c'est que des générations d'artisans, à Bruges et Anvers, avaient découvert le secret de faire rayonner la chair et chatoyer la soie. Mais le génie insulaire a donné son accent à cette langue flamande. En regardant les belles ladies qui rêvent au fond des parcs romantiques, on n'ose se rappeler.
To discover the picturesque it has not crossed the ungrateful age, the classes of grammar, the anxieties of the growth. She appeared in full beauty, worthy heir of the most skilful practitioners of color. If Reynolds and Gainsborough were able to glorify the English race, it was because generations of artisans, in Bruges and Antwerp, had discovered the secret of radiating the flesh and shining silk. But the insular genius gave his accent to this Flemish language. Looking at the beautiful ladies who dream in the depths of the romantic parks, one dare not remember.
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Your translation is accurate, I would say.
Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough were the dominant British portraitists of the second half of the 18th century.
Margaret Gainsborough was the second daughter of Thomas Gainsborough.
See "The Artist’s Daughter Margaret".
oh i know, meaning they lived 200 years ago. inappropriate, magazine sheet which I found was so weathered.
@vcelier thanks for the enlightenment
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