Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 340
took their portraits with equalreadiness. When he was ten years old, his family removedto Oxford, where he rapidly improved in his draw-ing. When he first saw a picture by Rubens hewept bitterly and sobbed out: Oh, I shall never be able to paint like that! In 1785, he received a silver palette from… … THE BLUE BOY. (AFTER THE PAINTING BY THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH. BY PERMISSION, FROM A FAC-SIMILE OFTHE ETCHING BY RAJON, PUBLISHED BY laRT.) 8io STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. [September, Academy, London, and from that time his coursewas one of repeated successes. Sir Joshua Rey-nolds was his friend and…
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