Sherman, Frederic Fairchild · New York : Privately printed · leaf 128
riend Hayley in 1787 about the Shakespeareanenterprise, he says: This cursed portrait-painting!How I am shackled by it! George Paston, in hislate Life of the artist, remarks very pertinentlythat Connoisseurs are inclined to give thanks thathis love of depicting pretty faces and his desire torealize… … canvases he sent to the Spring Gardens Exhibitionof the year following a single portrait. He had, itseems, even then practically given up work in thatparticular field in which he had earned in his nativeland his first modest success, and it was not longthereafter that, as his first biographer, John…
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