Dutch painters of the nineteenth century. With biographical notices (1898)
Rooses, Max, 1839-1914. ed · London, S. Low, Marston and Company · leaf 263
artist. 13 194 CHRISTOPHER BISSCHOP. An artist! in those days, and in that part of the country—where thepeople hardly knew the difference between a picture-painter and a house-painter—an artist stood on a level with that abomination an actor. To think that a sonof the highly respectable Richard… … A corner of the drawing room. From a photograph. The saying that perseverance wins in the end was not e.xactly the caseof young Chris, for he lost his father at an early age and it was he whohad opposed his wish much more than his mother. She, in spite of her quietand strict education, had broader…
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