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 69
inspired mind breathes into compositions of that class. His imagination often foils him,and he attempts to hide his want of wings in the unrivalled splendour of his colouring, and by thethick-strewn graces of his execution. But his single i^oetic figures are remarkable for their unaftectedease,… … rOIlTRAIT OF JOHN HUNTER. Fr.OM A PAINTING! BY SIR JOillUA r.EYKOLDS. iiitst successful imaginative conceptions. The Schoolboy is one of the happiest of his simplecreations. Of children, indeed, he seems to have been remarkably fond; nor can one doubt, from thereality with Avliich he invests these…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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