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 (1870)
Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871 · New York : G.P. Putnam & Son · leaf 411
d facility of the photographic art, that the time will comewhen only the very best class of portrait-painters can find encouragement.Mechanical ingenuity and scientific success can never take the place of art;for the latter is a produ6t of the soul, and its highest triumphs have aspiritual… … PortraiturCt Genrey and Historical Painters. 399 couraged, and hence the ideal and progressive in art is indire6lly butimmeasurably fostered. Many American artists who have commenced with portraiture, or stilloccasionally engage therein, also devote themselves to historical and genreart.…
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