American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 295
we may expect withconfidence yet rarer models from his hand. We have not spoken of the artists personal appearance, and of this only a word must suffice.He is tall, though somewhat under six feet, slight in his physique, with fine, regular features,and a spiritualized expression of face, which… … _^^ -(v cvm^ i f|5^L, Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass. ORIGINAL ETCHING R. SWAIN GIFFORD. In the choice of his subjects Mr. Gififord is thoroughly American, very few of his platesrepresenting foreign scenes. In the quality of frankness, to use a term first naturalized in English by Mr. Hamerton,…
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