Art Suggestions From the Masters Selected From the Works of Artists And Other W
Art Suggestions From the Masters Selected From the Works of Artists And Other W
Susan Nichols Carter
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If por- trait-painting is the prose of the art, his pictures are the prose of portrait-painting. Yet he is a " reverend name " in art, and one of the benefac- tors of the human mind. He has left faces be- hind him that we would give the world to have seen, and there they are— stamped on his canvas forever ! Who, in reading over the names of cer- - tain individuals, does not feel a yearning in his breast to know their features and their linea- ments ? We look through a small frame, and lo ! at t...he distance of three centuries, we have before us the figures of Anne Boleyn, of the virtuous 230 ART SUGGESTIONS. Cranmer, the bigoted Queen Mary, the noble Surrey — as if we had seen them in their lifetime, not perhaps in their best moods or happiest atti- tudes, but as they sometimes appeared, no doubt. We know, at least, what sort of looking people they were : our minds are made easy on that score ; the *' body and limbs" are there, and we may ^* add what flourishes " of grace or ornament we please.
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