McKay, William Darling, 1844-1924 · London : Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 226
echnique is of the dexterous mechanical sort which takesno account of the mysterious or the infinite, but which,for that \e.vy reason, commended itself the more readilyto the dilettanti. So it was that Backhuysen and theDutch flower painters fared better at the hands of criticsand connoisseurs than… … u z S - < a 5 o ^ K I LANDSCAPE 179 poraries had on him. He died at Lambeth in 1831, acomparatively young man. Several of his sisters, notablyAnne and Charlotte, wielded the brush with no smallskill. A fine example of the latter, at Riccarton, showsa technique different from that of either her…
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