Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and their works : a handbook (1901)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 84
n color it is not as goodas the best of Titians, yet few jiictures of Titians, of that size, arem good ill color. In composition and chiaro-sc-uro it is one of thegreat pictures. It is the liest picture in a gallery which contains thel)eHt j)ictureH to lie seen in America. Allston also painted some… … 2 <1 a s 3 4 ALLSTON. 33 ■whicli ever gave me pleasure. In 1836, he was invited by Congressto paint a lai-ge picture for the Capitol, but his mind was fixed uponpainting Belshazzars Feast, for which he had made a sketch in1817. This was unfinished when he died, and is in the Boston Athe-naeum.…
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