American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 298
— of manly grace most graceful when at rest, — of noble facultiesalive and sovereign though still. An English gentleman, a traveller who saw it while it was yet in the studio, writes of it: We confess to feelings ofgazed at Valentines splen-Virginia had such a son.modern masters in Europe,greater… … profound astonishment as we firstdid sculpture. We felt proud thatWe had seen the works of greatbut never had we seen one ofand execution than this LeeGerman paper says: The Gen-gus, the upper part of the body slumber Mr. Valentine has serving the warm and living im-it is not the countenance of…
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