Copley Society (Boston, Mass.) · [Boston, Press of G.H. Ellis, etc. · leaf 146
left them portraits of our great men,and paintings of our great battles. Yes, you have in-deed, and that is the only historical painting that youeither have, or can have; but you dont call that his-torical painting. ... As you examine into thecareer of historical painting, you will be more andmore… … historical work records, not the past, but thepresent. Spain is above all other lands the land of realists;that is, in art, of painters of the actual. From firstto last the life-work of Velazquez, which consists ofportraits, landscapes,^ genre, and renderings of so-called mythological or sacred…
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