Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 83
torical subjects were nothing to him. For the imita-tors of Raphael he had only contempt. To him the idealwas the empty. In life a republican and a socialist, hechose nature and the ordinary people of his own time as thethemes of his art. Railway stations, mines, and manufac-tories, he said, were… … Q < 5 THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES 59 1855, he opened an independent exhibition of his ownworks in a wooden hut, and enforced their purpose with theaid of a pamphlet. The objections raised to his work wereof the same kind as those our Pre-Raphaelite painters hadto face. Eyes that had…
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