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 121
ish is as accurate and as critical as that of any mediaeval artist, whilethe efiects he produces are as grand, majestic, and free as those which distinguish any modern 108 JOHN CASSELLS AUT TREASURES EXHIBITION. landscape. He rose at once, says his biographer, from the tame insipidity of common… … dreamed landscape. He looked on cattle as only made to form groups for his pictures, and on menas they composed harmoniously. Fuseli, whose name as a connoisseur and critic stood high some fifty years ago, in a discourse uponart, delivered in 1801, remarks of Wilson :— That he observed nature in…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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