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 179
erlooking Boston Common. In the summer of 1878,in a shop in that city, there hung a picture of a sweet and serious girl of fif-teen years, which was as winning in sentiment and as full of tenderest poeticfeeling as any work of Millets that we have seen. The treatment was asbroad and cool as… … ft 3 ROBERT SWAIN OIFFORD. 93 impressions from Nature. The quoted extracts from his conversations tellclearly what he tries to do. Though not a colorist in the supreme sense thatTroyon was, he is a true artist. When Mr. Robert Swain Gifford was elected an Academician in 1x7*,the National Academy of…
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