The art reader, prepared for supplementary reading in public and private schools, with illustrations of some of the masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture (1905)
Quinn, Patrick Edward, 1862-1926 · Boston, A. W. Elson & co. · leaf 228
nothingof the feelings of a country life, the essence of landscape.Nevertheless, Constable painted on, calmly confident thathis works would meet with the approval of posterity.Although he was long misunderstood in England, hisgenius was enthusiastically recognized in France, wherehis influence… … THE CORNFIELD, CONSTABLE. THE CORNFIELD 129 fields and trees in summer time with the full splendor ofnoontide light raining down upon them. He was a genu-ine painter of English cultivated scenery, of cornfields,and of farmsteads, and of the haunts of rustic humanity.His scenes teem with human…
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