An outline history of painting for young people and students (1883)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, White, Stokes, & Allen · leaf 264
color cannot be praised ; he had nolofty intellectual aims ; he was clever to a high degree, buthe was not great; he was one to whom the happy mediumof praise should be given, for he neither merits severity ofcriticism nor immoderate praise ; he was simply a giftedpainter and the greatest and last… … CHAPTER VII. PAINTING IN ENGLAND. IN early days ia England there were miniature-painters,and in the last half of the sixteenth century there weresome very important English painters of this kind. Beforethe days of Charles I. the English kings were much in thehabit of inviting foreign artists to…
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