Great pictures as seen and described by famous writers (1900)
Singleton, Esther · New York, Dodd, Mead and Co. · leaf 379
ing backgrounds to his works; to him weare for the most part indebted for that aptitude of one tothe other which has so great an effect in putting the eyeand mind of the observer into harmonious relationship withwhat may be called the motive of the portrait, which, in-deed, elevates a mere likeness… … Portrait of Lady Cockburn and her Children. Reynolds. teI^Y^pke
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