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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 325

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 325
s the latterhas made his subjects, he has copied nature more faithfully than his pupil, and that his uglyold crones, and still uglier old carles are the fixc-similes of figures he had actually seen. Thepupil, on the other hand, was a less inspired priest at the altar of truth, and in his endeavour… … JACOB RUYSDAEL. Iji s[»ite of tliese drawbacks, Bega is a good painter, an excellent engraver, a charming artist, and agreat favourite with all amateurs. His merits, indeed, entitled him to the honour of a biographicalmemoir; but, much as his masterpieces have been admired, and great as is the…

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