Dutch painters of the nineteenth century. With biographical notices (1898)
Rooses, Max, 1839-1914. ed · London, S. Low, Marston and Company · leaf 140
aris, he says, among other things taste wasthen so extraordinary and inartistic, that once, when Israels had painted theportrait of a very old woman, John Kruseman said to him that he ought not topaint such ugly subjects, because he was spoiling the artisdc taste of the people. Can we not imagine… … Spring time. g4 JOSEPH ISRAELS. human creature be ugly and that moreover a woman? Even if she was asu^ly as sin, what did that matter? he wasnt painting for an exhibition of wax-works. What he wished to portray was not lovehness of feature, nor beautyand youth, but spirit, mind, soul, in fact the…
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