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 230
r the Dutch j>ainters of animal life, that his successes were achievedin spite of the difijcidties that always attend the representation of scenes of tempestuous and conflicting JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. ^17 passions. Wouvermans delighted in admirable pictures of preparations for… … FIGHT BETWEEN BEARS AND DOGS. No other painter of animals—not even our own immortal Landseer—has succeeded in investingwith so much grandeur, we might almost say sublimity, the contest between dogs and bears, or boars.In the celebrated ma,:terpiece, of whioh we have here given an illustration, the…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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