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 469
ity. His masterpieces were the subject of eager and jealous competition among i56 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXniBITION. picture-fanciers, at London, Warsaw, Munich, Vienna, and Turin. Latterly some of them havefound their way even into the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg. This amazing… … he has left no piece in which there is any trace of a decay of genius or eiiergy., With his powers uuim-^paired to the last, he has been surnamed by the Abb^ Defontaine, The Nestor of Painting. This admirable artist was also an excellent man. His character was irreproachableon the score…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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