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The earlier English water-colour painters (1897)

Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840-1901 · London, Seeley · leaf 304

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l low, his genius only recognised by a few.One of his oil-pictures was actually rejected bythe British Institution in 1844; and he had tocomplain of the small respect that was paid bythe hangers to the drawings he sent to theWater-Colour Society in 1845. The public andhis brother artists saw only… … Copley Fielding, David Cox, W. J. Miiller. 237 works were inspired by a large spirit of humanityand a solemn deep feeling which may almost becalled biblical, the Committee of the Water-Colour Society thought his drawing, too rough! They forget, wrote Cox, with a self-assertionrare to his humble…

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