Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 390
ference for the best side of his sitter, a preferencecertainly not peculiar to this artist. From the time when ApeUes painted Alexander inprofile, to hide a defect in one of the royal eyes, down to our own day, the powerful andthe rich have expected of the artists they employ that they would make… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 261 as, in all his portraits, a distinct and individual character, which extends even to the dress ofhis sitter. Thus, in the portrait of then crown-princess, now the ex-empress Victoria, the
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