Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 196
enteenth century it didin the eighteenth, if puritanism andthe civil troubles had not dis-couraged enterprise in the arts.Lely again, although he wascontent not to probe too deeplyinto his own reserve of power,was a real if superficial artistwhose example could teach noth-ing that required to be… … FIG. 31.^.—S. PEPVS. (jOHN HAYLS.) N;ition;iI Portrait Gallery. ART IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND wise have done. But on Leiys death, and even before it, fashionthrew itself at the feet of perhaps the least interesting painter whoever monopolized the patronage of any society. Kneller hadfacility—he…
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