American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 421
er, Arnold Bocklin, has made such subjects most his own,and every American art-lover knows well the charming fancies which our own F. S. Churchhas linked with his drawings of mermaids. Doubtless some of our readers remember a paint-ing of a mermaid by a Boston artist, Mr. D. T. Kendrick, which was… … Thf. Mermaid. Drawn by Meynelle. as she gazed toward a ship whose storm-riven spars were to be seen beyond a great curl otfoam. The artist no doubt meant to give the impression that the sea-maid was waiting tocapture some unfortunate sailor as he tried to escape from the wreck, and carry him…
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