John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 117
SUPvES EXHIBITION. when the rich and the powerful, who had not taste or soul to appreciate him, were for ever forgotten,and where he contemplated, in his present obscurity, on the fame which awaited his memory. He was, however, sometimes destitute even of the means of purchasing canvas and colour… … landscape painter a service, he recommended him to a lady who was seeking for first-rate pictures toadorn her vv^alls. The lady, pleased with the specimens she saw of Wilsons genius, commissioned him to paint hertwo pictures, of which she fixed the price, and then took her departure. When the coast…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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