The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)
Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 206
d two daughters, one of whom had married, we think, without herfathers knowledge, and, as it proved, unhappily, the musician Fischer, with whomGainsboroughs delight in music had brought himself and his household in continualcontact. A portrait by Gainsborough startled the art world, after an… … FUSE LI. I3] death, which occurred previous to the completed pictures being sent home. Thebereaved husband could not bear to look on the semblance of what he had lost inthis world, and did not even have the picture removed from its case. Tn the extremityof his grief, as an effort against the…
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