The plastic modelling of the puckered brow and the mobile mouth is beautifully indicated.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
The painting is a masterpiece of modelling and soft transparency of light and shade.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
We saw inside on many floors, modellers with their clay, modelling groups for the stone-carvers, in high or low relief, with utmost rapidity, freedom, finish, and appreciation of light and shade.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch