Davies, Randall · London: T. C. & E. C. Jack · leaf 542
re than I do myself. More serious wasthe verdict of Sir George Scharf, keeper of the NationalGallery, when (in 1874) there was a proposal to purchasethe portrait of Carlyle. Well, he said, icily, on lookingat the picture, and has painting come to this! High place, it would seem, did not always… … The Nineteenth Century National Gallery, published in 1883, on one of Rem- Manet andbrandts pictures in the Louvre:— Whistler The Bath, a very ugly and offensive picture, inwhich the principal object is the ill-proportioned figureof a naked woman, distinguished by flesh tones whosecolour suggests…
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