Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 268
treated with the dignity that belongsto it. There is too much detail, and the pictorial interest is frittered away; the eye wandersall over the canvas seeking for a place where it may rest. Nor is this the only difficulty; wefeel that the sky and the land are not in sympathy; they do not belong… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 173 of tone, a crudity of coloring, which betrays itself as plainly in the picture as it does in theengraving. It seems to us that Bcicklin shows to most advantage in such pictures as TheMermaidens —the one we copy—the Nereid of the Schack Gallery, the Fight of…
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