Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 205
At the end of the seventeenth cen-tury, however, fortune sent a deliverer. William Hogarth was exactly thetype of man required by English artat the time of his birth. He was notonly a great artist, he was an organizerof resistance. He rallied the forcesof English painting, which had beendispersed… … FIG. 321. SHRIMP GIRL. (HOGARTH.) National Gallery. were a declaration of waragainst the empty conventionswhich had ruled between thedeath of Lely and that ofKneller. They encouragedthose of his fellow-countrymenwho had art in them to be trueto their own feelings, instead ofseeking out and adopting…
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