Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 261
entury was three years old,but his art was curiously homogeneous, and in all its ups anddowns was scarcely affected by the various kinds of modernism,whether in revivals or new experiments, which broke out aroundhim. In 1848 seven young men bound themselves together In a societyto which they gave… … painters; Thomas Woolner,sculptor; and William MichaelRossetti, writer. Their objectwas to break with the emptyconventionality which had grad-ually dominated English art,substituting for it real, even ifprimitive, ideas, and the sincerestudy of nature down to hermost intimate details. Themovement…
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