Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 165
s first exhibited picture, in 1862, at the Academy, How Bianca CapeUo sought to poison the Cardinal de Medici, showed the direction of histaste, which was toward the painting of anecdote—anecdote of a positive character, as distin-guished from ordinary genre, where people are grouped together in… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 103 Belinda, the heroine of Popes Rape of the Lock, A Cashmere Nautch Girl, or TheLinen Gatherers, and The Gleaners, illustrated in our cuts. In these pictures Mr. Prinsepwould seem to have been thinking much of Jules Breton; there is about the same compromisebetween…
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