ring his whole life. He lays his graver-lines with painful clearness, adapting them with scrupulouscare to the nature of the object *he represents. Hisdrawing accordingly is dry and lifeless, but the outwardperfection of his work assured him of his position as a GEORG WILLE 215 valued master and… … Fig. 98. Georg Wille: Boy blowing Soap Bubbles, afterCaspar Netscher (detail). was this influence that helped in no small degree to thedecline of the art of line-engraving. Wille reproducedseveral pictures by Netscher (fig. 98), Mieris, G. Dow, etc.One of his most famous plates is the Paternal…
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