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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [44] CHAPTER V. Love of Nature?'Advice from the Country'?'Summer'?'The World of Beauty '?Blake's Influence on Linnell?Parks?' The Woodcutters'?' The Hawthorn-Tree'?' Up Rays.' In speaking of Linnell's art, one would fail to give its true character if one did not point out the depth and sincerity of his love of nature. In that his noble landscape art had its root; to that rich soil it owed all its wonderful efflorescence in the latter half of his life. Nothing more striking is to be met with in the lives of men of genius. Born a Londoner, and brought up almost within stone's-throw of Drury Lane and the Seven Dials, he yet developed a love of nature and a power of realizing it in art that was on a par with the highest expression of the great poetical painters of the past. It was manifested and had its early fostering in those rambles, now along the Thames at Millbank ?at that time charmingly rural?now higher up stream by Richmond, Teddington, and Hampton Court, sometimes with Mulready, sometimes with William Hunt, not unfrequently alone. The growing delight impelled him to take those long and ATTITUDE TOWARDS NATURE 45 often solitary walks of which record has been made, at one time through Kent, at another in the Isle of Wight, or in Wales. And everywhere he felt the spirit of Nature as a something mysterious and divine, as a brooding and indwelling presence, some of whose deeper moods might from time to time be surprised and transferred to canvas in all their burning fervour of colour and entrancing witchery of form. In a hundred pictures we have the record of his poetic perceptions; in hundreds of studies from nature he has shown us how he obtained his mastery. But from these we do not learn the whole story: for that we must go to his writings. He tells us t...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217943611
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217943616
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 145 gr

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