Bacon, Henry, b. 1840 · Boston : J.R. Osgood · leaf 80
Fragment from Rorkes Drift. (A. de Neuville.) While painting his celebrated picture, entitled La Der-niere Cartouche, he caused a running fire of musketry tobe discharged bv his models, in order that he might catch … The Reconnoissance. (A. de Neuville.) PARISIAN ART AND ARTISTS. 73 the spirit and fix it upon his canvas. His models wereplaced in all positions, — scaling walls, loading, firing, pros-trate upon the ground, as if wounded or dead. It is not un-common for him to take with him on his summer…
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