Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 96
y their beauty rather than by the dexterity of the technique.Still, it is by the aid of a few such questioning minds that art makes itsadvances, and interprets the secrets of nature. As a portrait painter, Pagehas placed himself among the first artists of the age. We see in his por-traits a dignity… … the refuge.—[elihd vedder.] delicacy and refinement of motive, although in the celebrated paintingof Venus Rising from the Sea, he gave cause for much discussion asto the merits of his theories. When Page was in his prime, our literature had already become dis-tinguished by several writers of…
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