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 256
t hazardous. He objected to close scrutiny, and used to say, half in jest, when any one drew too near, that the smell of paint was unwholesome, and ought not. to be inhaled. None but a great master of perspective could have insisted thus on a certain distance. Of his portraits we say with De Piles,… … AN OSTADE was a master of the highest eminence. In depth of thought, ori-ginality of genius, and knowledge of design, he was inferior only to Rembrandt.He formed one of the band of painters who, in the seventeenth century, leftGermany for the purpose of settling in the Netherlands, which were, at…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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