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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...for Watts, are now in the order of completion, and must be done before I start. I have lately got much credit, both here and in Eome, by a small whole length of Sir Eichard Acton's brother, in his splendid robes as vice-legate of Bologna. The dignitaries of the Catholic Church, in their crimson and purple, their lace, their crosses, and decorations, make much better materials for pictures than my old friends the Scotch Presbyterians. I suppose if I should be alive and in Italy when this young man is made Cardinal, I shall be again employed to illustrate his advancement. In my own mind, this little picture is the best I have ever painted. I am glad of it, for I am afraid Sir E. Acton has got some of my worst. " Your account of the Exhibition, though short, is, I suspect, very near the truth. With all Etty's powers as a painter, and they are very great, he has a radically bad taste about him, which is for ever thrusting out the cloven foot. There are but few of his pictures I should ever care to possess. Collins is indeed a delightful artist. He has had the good sense to pursue one class of subjects till he has brought the thing to perfection. The fresh reality of nature is his. Wilkie has not been so steady or consistent. He has a more speculative mind, and has the ambition to conquer everything. I like his daring, but from such a course failures must be expected. I do think it a most unmanly feeling in his brother artists to set upon him and run him down. But man is a cruel animal. His first delight is destroying life and shedding blood; but the restraints of society put a check on this propensity, and ' pour s'en dedommager, ' he attacks fair fame and well-earned reputation. " I believe two pictures only will be sent, instead of 1830. THE AGE OF F...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154302295
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154302296
  • Publisher Date: 12 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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