Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 448
n stud-ied in the Louvre, wonthe grand prize at theAntwerp Academy in1832, and went viaParis to Rome, where he took Michelangelofor his model, as afterwards Rubens be-came his ideal, and in 1837 was made mem-ber of the Accademia di S. Luca. After hisreturn he lived at Liege, and in 1848… … 1;V1ESCPIEBPJNK himself to realize a farthing, supportinghimself aud his old mother exclusively bypainting portraits. In his studio he triedto bring to perfection a process of paintingcombining the merits of fresco and of oil,and really invented a new method, excludingreflection, which he called…
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