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 298
In a man of great and true genius, all his faculties, talents, and powerstend to one object. His work is his life j and everything opposed to the accomplishment of this workjnust yield and perish. The very passions, which seeiia so fatal to the greatness and dignity of the ALBERT CUYP. 285 artist,… … rivals works, and if he steered clear of the mania (so ruinous and so general at that time) for thopossession of the engravings of the old masters, is it not clear that this dislike to spend was the safe-guard of his originality ? Hjs economy (we will not call it avarice) was blessed in its…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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