Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 311
com-petition for the Prix de Rome, but it was not until1866 that he carried ofl the prize. In 1807 he went to Rome, going first to Marseilles,and thence by Genoa and Florence directly to his goal. In Florence he delighted, buthis first impression of Rome was disappointing, as it always is to men of… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 147 the picture due for his first year. He had wished to paint a Juditli and Holofemes, batby the advice of M. Hebert, the head of the French Academy in lioiiie, lie took the subject ofAutomedon taming the Horses of Achilles,and painted the picture whicli is now in the…
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