ofthe least promising ofhis sitters pictorial,although, alas, in thisrespect the portrait-painter has smallfreedom of choice.The daughters ofnoble houses come to the limners studio with the rows of loveli-ness of their fair ancestors fresh in their memories.The type has probably degenerated since… … ON THE STAIRS with their brilliant ancestors, and the new mastermust see to it that the comparison is not odious.Fashionable sitters will not understand that to paintshowily at the expense of truth is death to Art, andthat the deft expression on canvas of insight into even a shallow cha-racter is a…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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