American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 5
ar apathy regarding the efforts of native artists, with the exception of portrait-painters, who may be said to thrive on the vanity of their sitters. This, however, is no cause for discouragement; for* every nation has to pass through its imitative period, and, as we have indicated, the signs are… … D.ClWiiCt| THE MERMAID. ORIGINAL ETCHING F. S. CHURCH. Though not so boldly treated as most of his early plates, in substance it is quite typical,Mr, Church being best known to the public by his quaint conceits, in which the fantastic and thereal, animal life and human life, are mingled together in…
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