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Art and artists of our time (1888)

Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 138

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nce for the best side of his sitter, a jjreferencecertainly not peculiar to this artist. From the time when Apelles painted Alexander inprofile, to hide a defect in one of the royal eyes, dowTi to our own day, the powerfiil andthe rich have expected of the artists they employ that they would make… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 26r 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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