Jane Austen and Her Times #227723

In art there had never before been seen in England such a trio of masters as Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney. Isolated portrait painters of brilliant genius, though not always native born, there had been in England, — Holbein, Vandyke, Lely, Kneller, and Hogarth are all in the first rank, — but that three such men as the trio above should flourish con temporaneously was little short of miraculous.