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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 49

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id of him that he painted portraits for money and landscapes for amuse-ment, but that he made music because he needs must. He collectedmusical instruments as Rejmolds did a library. Even in his pictures hegives his people, for preference, violins in their hands. To the Musical Clubwhich he had… … REYNOLDS. ED.MLND BLRKE. COMMENCEMENT OF MODERN ART IN ENGLAND 27 His funeral was a very quiet one. In the peaceful graveyard at Kew,Thomas Gainsborough sleeps tranquilly under the shady willows, far fromthe noise and tumult of the great city. Sir Joshua said at his grave : Should England ever…

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