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The earlier English water-colour painters (1897)

Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840-1901 · London, Seeley · leaf 200

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en of his styleand choice of subjects, a scene from old monasticlife which gave him scope for the indulgence ofhis unusual power of composition, colour, andchiaroscuro, and of his love for the picturesquein architecture and costume. This drawing,an excellent example of Cattermoles art, formspart of… … -5\ Figure Painters. 153 Mr. Ruskin wrote of Cattermole, in the firstvolume of Modern Painters : There are signs inGeorge Cattermoles works of very peculiar gifts,and perhaps, also, of powerful genius. . . . Theantiquarian feeling of Cattermole is pure, earnest,and natural, and I think his…

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