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 494
His artistic career—or, at any rate, the most successful portion of it—was passed amid the feverish^ excitement, the high aspirations, the paralysing terrors, the bloody denouement, and the galling disappoint-ments of the first revolution. But the inhuman excesses of the times in which he… … SIMON MATHURIN LANTARA. ill his character of painter. He is as impassive on the canvas as he was in the Convention. Davidowes his immortality more perhaps to the reputation of the school of which he was the founder thanto the merit of his own masterpieces. The overpowering influence which he…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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