Sketches of great painters for young people (1902)
Dallin, Colonna Murray, Mrs · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and Company · leaf 278
ht of the rising sun.The picture shows Turners power as a colorist and asa painter of the splendor of the sky. He was a Prome-theus among painters, for, like the mighty giant of oldwho lighted his torch at the chariot of the Sun, lie wasthe first who dared to snatch the fiery gorgeousness ofsunrise… … 262 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. them all. He felt that this picture was worthy to rankwith Claude Lorraines superb seaports, for by the pro-visions of his will it was to be placed beside one ofClaudes in the National Gallery. The Sun Rising in aMist was left with the same conditions. No account of…
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