The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)
Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 218
it. As he had rejoiced in life, he rejoiced in death, telling hiswife—I glory in dying, I have no grief but in leaving you, Kate; and he askedagain for pencils and brushes in order to try and paint a last likeness of his best andlife-long friend. He lay singing extemporaneous songs, and died… … THE TEMPTATION ON THE MOUNT.[From the original fainting by Ary Scheffer.) STOTHARD. 139 An attempt was made to induce his widow to disclose the process by which heattained his brilliant, sometimes gorgeous, tints, but regarding her fidelity to her hus-bands memory as involved in the preservation of…
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