It isn't a bit modern.

It's a face of Sir Thomas Lawrence--" "It's a face of Gainsborough!" Mr.Longdon returned with spirit.

"Lady Julia herself harked back." Vanderbank, clearly, was equally touched and amused.

"Let us say at once that it's a face of Raphael." His old friend's hand was instantly on his arm.

"That's exactly what I often said to myself of Lady Julia's." "The forehead's a little too high," said Vanderbank.
"But it's just that excess that, with the exquisite eyes and the particular disposition round it of the fair hair, makes the individual grace, makes the beauty of the resemblance." Released by Lady Julia's lover, the young man in turn grasped him as an encouragement to confidence.