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 86
de a pam-phlet by W. H. Whitmore, Esq., of that city. 70 American Artist Life. This elaboration was probably done more in a feeling for mechanicalfinish, than to realize any quality which he saw in his sitters. But hispi(ftures have satisfied pubhc appreciation, and he has fully shared… … |ORTRAITS appeal to the love of order as well as of beauty.They are useful and attraftive not only as conne6led withthe affe6lions, or as meritorious works of art, but as S3^m-bols of departed races and ages. All admit the moral charmwhich invests an ancient estate ; and the inaftivity of…
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