Whistler, James McNeill · London : Seeley,Jackson and Halliday · leaf 193
he appears to the English artist. The late J. F. Lewis, R.A., whose admirable pictures of Oriental subjects are so well known, at the beginning of his career, was strongly attracted by animal nature, and when quite a young man published a number of studies of lions, which, having been brought up as… … one in pencil. He seems to aim at showing us the lion as he exists in his native home. They are evidently truthful portraits, carefully studied from nature, and we can see what pleasure the artist has taken in the beauty of the form, how he has dwelt on the marking of the face, and has delighted in…
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