American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 499
ing, David Cox, Miiller, and, above all,Turner. These men, especially Girtin and Turner, liberated, as Monkhouse says, water-color from the bonds of archaeological and topographical illustration and made it Bank as afine art, and conducted the most original and national of all art movements in… … The Dell. Drawn by Bellows. he shows even as a greater artist inthese works than in those paintedin the nobler medium. In oil hehad the body of ancient art beforehim, and great masters of execu-tion in almost every varied style.But in water-color what was therein the beginning to guide him;what had…
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