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 38
s Rent Day, his Fiddler, his Politicians j they are not carried far enough, asif anything on earth, in point of expression and story, was ever carried farther. Italian art is to himquite new, and he comes out, to his own astonishment, with notions and principles wliich, to those whobegan as I did… … THE BLIND FIDDLER. FROM A PAINTINO BY SIR DAVID WILKIE. The next entry in Haydons diary gives some insight into Wilkies character :— March 1st, 1830. Spent an hour with Wilkie very delightfully. Since his return from Italy heseems tending to me very much. We got mutually kind to-day, and mutually…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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