Dutch painters of the nineteenth century. With biographical notices (1898)
Rooses, Max, 1839-1914. ed · London, S. Low, Marston and Company · leaf 90
arded the wholecivilized world by his witty sadrical novels; Piekwiek appearing in 1837,Oliver Twist in 1839, iWieholas Aieklehy in 1840, Master Humphrey sClock in 1841 and Martin Chuzzlewit in 1844. It may be said of bles, when he painted his picture The Lovers of Musicfthat he had imbibed the… … 52 DAVID BLES. and common subjects, the prevailing taste, at that period, being incHnedtowards vulgar comedy and coarse indelicate jokes. The young artists of those days were in the habit of giving very amusingmasked balls in the now forgotten Tivoli at the Hague; on one of theseoccasions, some of…
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