Book of the artists. American artist life, comprising biographical and critical sketches of American artists: preceded by an historical account of the rise and progress of art in America (1867)
Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871. 1n · New York, G. P. Putnam & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 348
^, without the chilliness of etiquette, or the wearisomedemands of vanity. Like Ophelia and Cordelia, they put us on a sweettrack of musing; and if it be true, as has been said, that the strength ofvirtue is serenity of mind, the artists who work in this spirit are genuinepriests of humanity, and… … 1837, a young though baffled enthusiastwas roaming amid the picluresque scenery of Virginia.He had gone thither from the Capital, where an enterprisewhich seemed to offer at least the means of immediatesubsistence, if not the promise of future distinftion, hadfailed. He was the son of an honest but…
Artists, American · Art
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