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" He desired to be buried near his friend Kirby in Kew churchyard ; and that his name only should be cut on his gravestone. He sent for Reynolds, and peace was made between them. Gainsborough exclaimed to Sir Joshua, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke... "
The Family Library (Harper). - Pagina 301
1846
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 1

Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pagina’s
...collar. It was accompanied with stiffness and pain. On returning home he mentioned what he felt to his wife and his niece ; and on looking they saw a mark,...of the company," and immediately expired — August 3d, 1788, in the sixty-first year of his age. Sheridan and the President attended him to the grave....
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 1

Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pagina’s
...cheerfulness and perfect composure. He desired to be buried near his friend Kirby in Kew churchyard j and that his name only should be cut on his gravestone....of the company," and immediately expired — August 3d, 1788, in the sixty-first year of his age. Sheridan and the President attended him to the grave....
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 1

Allan Cunningham - 1837 - 316 pagina’s
...Reynolds, and peace was made between them. Gainsborough exclaimed to Sir Joshua, " We are aU'going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company," and immediately...Sheridan and the President attended him to the grave. la the spring which followed the death of Gainsborough, his widow, who survived him several years,...
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Environs of London: Western Division

John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 pagina’s
...should be cut on his grave-stone. He sent for Sir Joshua, and was reconciled to him; then exclaiming, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company ! " immediately expired, in the sixty-first year of his age. Sheridan and Sir Joshua followed him to...
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The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire

British empire - 1847 - 856 pagina’s
...his death-bed who does he send for but Reynolds ; and with him by its side, and uttering the words, " We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company," died. To these qualities we must add that, in person, Reynolds added the graces of the gentleman to...
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Rambles about Bath, and its neighbourhood

James Tunstall - 1847 - 336 pagina’s
...Schomberg, which he inhabited until his death, in 1788. His last words were to Sir Joshua Eeynolds, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company." Gainsborough was eminently handsome, his disposition benevolent, his conversation winning and attractive,...
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Notes and Queries

1856 - 568 pagina’s
...man can do nothing easy." (Franklin.) " Let me die to the sounds of delicious music." (Mirubeau.) " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company." (Gainsborough.) Some of your correspondents, I have no doubt, could greatly enlarge this collection....
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A General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical

Miss Ludlow - 1851 - 486 pagina’s
...all petty animosities and rivalries were forgotten, and the last words of Gainsborough were addressed to Sir Joshua : " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company." His drawings are numerous and masterly — no artist has left behind him so many exquisite relics of...
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 5

1856 - 504 pagina’s
...wave of life heaves to and fro. Reynolds bends his dull ear to catch Gainsborough's failing words: "We are all going to heaven — and Vandyke is of the company." A few days after, at about two o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of August, 1788, in the sixty-second...
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London: Its Literary and Historical Curiosities

Frederick Saunders - 1854 - 292 pagina’s
...express desire, his name only was cut on the gravestone. Shortly before he expired, he exclaimed, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company." At Brentford Church, Tooke, author of the " Diversions of Purley," officiated for a time. Sion House,...
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