Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works ; a handbook (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 48
Page said, In color it is not as goodas the best of Titians, yet few pictures of Titians, of that size, areso good in color. In composition and chiaro-scuro it is one of thegreat pictures. It is the best picture in a gallery which contains thebest pictures to be seen in America. Allston also… … p J/3 l-l 55 O E-i O ^ O .J < CO v ^ ALLSTON. 33 which ever gave me pleasure. In 1836, he was invited by Congressto paint a large 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…
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