American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood (1879)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 151
areful study of the model, preferring to paintout of his consciousness of the fitness of things, would have thought Mr.Porters pictures too life-like; and some of the old Dutch masters, whostudied the model until the latter was almost shriveled with fatigue, wouldhave pronounced the Boston artists… … THE MANDOLIN-PLAYER.From a Painting by Benjamin Curtis Porter. p. 79. BENJAMIN GURTIs PORTER. 7., in his struggle for the picturesque, he has been sorelj tempted to natter mensand womens faces—to flatter them not only as an ordinary photographer doesby toning down his negative, by removing all…
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