Bacon, Henry, b. 1840 · Boston : J.R. Osgood · leaf 76
red the musket of the volunteer soldier, and inthe sharpest fighting was seen alternately shooting at theenemy and sketching the scenes around him. After the war,a wider field opened to the artist. Actual experience ofbattle increased his knowledge Qj^~r&and enabled him to depict… … tie-pieces years ago painted sketches, (e. detaille.) their pictures by a small side-light, which naturally threwupon their models the light and shade of an interior, andhorses and military baggage were in a measure necessarilypainted from studies. I remember a life-size painting (someten years…
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