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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 155

An illustration from John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools, 1858, leaf 155
and spirit. At six years of age he coulddraw from recollection the likeness of any one with whose face he was acquainted. Atthirteen he was apprenticed to a bookseller in Philadelphia, but his spccialite was dra^ving ;and he employed all his spare time in improving himself in his favourite pursuit.… … CHAULES UOBERT LESLIE. 143 drama he had been witnessing, and introduce excellent likenesses of the actors in their respective.characters. His portrait of Cooke, in the character of Richard III., attracted so much attention, that hisfriends, convinced at length of his talent for portrait painting,…

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