Art and Artists of Our Time Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...childhood, youth, and age all working, each in its way, in the double light of sunshine and of hope. This is the " L'Allegro " of rural life, while Millet's picture might well serve as an illustration of "II Pensieroso." "The Waning of the Year," by Arthur Parton, is a good example of an artist who is a great favorite in England; his bright and sunny pictures, where the larger forms of the landscape are not too much sacrificed to the details, which yet are studied, as here in the foreground, with much care, have been often seen in our own exhibitions along with those of a brother who lives and works in this country. E. A. Waterlow, the painter of the " Summer Shower," and H. R. Bloomer, whose "The Cascade" we copy, are fair representatives of the modern art of England in its minor phases--an art founded on an affectionate and careful study of nature, but somehow missing the artistic charm that has enabled the painters of the French school to outstrip the nation which they once were willing to acknowledge as their teacher, and the inspirer of their own noble achievement in the poetic rendering of nature's beauty. TV AVID WILKIE, the first genre-painter, rightly so called, born in Britain, was a native of Scotland, where he was born in 1785. He was the son of a minister, and had the advantages of a good, plain education. His leaning for art showed itself early, and his father sent him at fourteen to the Trustees' School at Edinburgh, where he came near to being spoiled by the artificial teaching that prevailed in that school, as in all academies. But for tunately for him, on his return to his native village he passed through a small hamlet where a fair was going on, and struck with the picturesque feat...