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 93
j)roper word for all attempts at finish without knowledge. All true finish is added fact; and Tur-ners word for finishing a picture was always this significant one—* carry forward. But labour withoutadded knowledge can only blacken or stain a picture, it cannot finish it. We must, however, bear… … JOHN CONSTABLE. We cannot give a better illustration of the unfair preference which the pre-Raphaelite school givesto Turner than by quoting one or two more of tlieir advocates prejudiced comparisons. Constable,says Ruskin, takes me out into a shower, and Claude into the s\ui, and De Wint makes me…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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