Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 235
t. When to this bias he adds the balance of power which enables him to give some- thing of the other phase of art, he in turn approaches the ideal aim of art. Turner was an impressionist; so was Corot; so, to go farther back, was Ve- lasquez ; so, also, are the Japanese. But these artists,… … SOUTHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND. [c. H. MILLER.] So far as can be ascertained, it is to the late William M. Hunt that we must ascribe the initiation of the third period in our pictorial art, and per- haps, in a secondary manner, the general impulse toward foi’eign styles now modifying thaarts of design in…
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