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 344
who, while he took Nature for his model, did not mis-take his model — if he ever employed one — for Nature. Our own life isequally teeming with similar subjects, perhaps less happily clothed withquaintness, but far more worthy of engaging the thought of the painter thanthat picturesque material… … <I mw Xh 0 z hin < S 43 WILL J J .1/ /.I QE. 177 selves iu art, if it is to have any permanent hold on the affections or on themind. Our older artists have not all lost sight of this, and in the work ofsome few of the younger men there is evidence of its hearty recognition. The honored name…
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