Aims and ideals of representative American painters (1901)
Rummell, John, Berlin, Emma Medora · Buffalo, N. Y. : E. M. Berlin · leaf 35
thought inEngland, to make a literal copy of her.During the middle of the nineteenthcentury many of our American painterswere strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement in England, and,like the Pre-Raphaelites, made the leastpossible use of the principle of selec-tion, and painted Nature… … T was a fortunate day forAmerican art, therefore,when the influence of thegreat French painters, whointerpreted Nature more broadly andmore rationally, was brought to ourshores by one of the greatest of ournative artists, William Morris Hunt.Born at Brattleboro, Vermont, on the31st of March, 1824,…
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