Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 94
his time been ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 77 discriminated, certainly not by his English forerunners nor by his late Italian and Dutchmasters, now roused his curiosity and spurred him on to delighted and iinwearied study.This is the period of Turners greatness. During the last twenty years of his… … THE APPROACH TO VENICE. FROM THE PICTURE BY J. M. W, TURNER. forms are only defined by light impinging upon light in bewildering splendor, but with irre-sistible charm. This charm, however, exists for us now only in his water-colors, and in suchfew of his oil paintings as have been shielded as far…
Painting · Painters
Internet Archive · Boston Library Consortium · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Illustrated catalogue of the eigth [sic] series of 100 paintings by old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English schools : being a portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery which contains about 1500 original pictures by ancient and modern artists (1902)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-illeigt00gale-34-16.webp)
