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 · New York, G. P. Putnam & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 348
of such lives,with their beautiful teachings, their unobtrusive inspiration, their familiargrace, make the loneliest room a temple, and yield some of the choicestjoys of society, without the chiUiness of etiquette, or the wearisomedemands of vanity. Like Ophelia and Cordelia, they put us on a… … LEUTZE. |N the summer of 1837, a young though baffled enthusiastwas roaming amid the pi6luresque 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 distin61;ion, hadfailed. He…
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