Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 231
th admiration. Then his own in-dividuality, steadily asserting itself, gave to his own art anindependent character. He sought by unremitting work,persisted in despite frequent ill-health, to make up for thelack of early training, for he was already twenty-two years oldwhen he turned of set purpose… … THE COURSE OF PRE-RAPHAELITISM 177 beauty. He was greatly influenced by the Italian masters,particular!y the Florentines ; that is to say, his art was Pre-Raphaelite in the sense in which that of Holman Hunt andMillais was not, and against which Holman Hunt has sostrongly inveighed. After a visit…
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