Famous Painters and Paintings (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. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...and monotonous character. His chief aim was truthfulness, and he was very minute in detail. He delighted to represent his landscapes in bright, fresh daylight, and in general his prevailing tone is clear and bright, especially in the green of his trees and plants. In his first manner peasants' cottages, or ruins, play an important part, and the view is more or less shut in by trees, which are of a heavy dark green. In his middle time he paints open views of a rather uneven country, diversified by wood and water. His greens are at this time bright and cool in tone. In his last manner a heavy uniformly brown tone is often observable. This artist's genuine feeling for nature makes his pictures popular in England, where a considerable number of his best works are to be found. Others are to be met with in Amsterdam, Dresden, and Paris. Though Wynants was still living in 1677, he had produced only a moderate number of pictures; but this may be accounted for by the extreme carefulness of his execution. FALCONE. A NIELLO FALCONE was born at Naples in 1600. He was a pupil of Spagnoletto and the instructor of Salvator Rosa. He was an eminent battle-painter, and became the founder of a large school. Of a turbulent, impulsive nature, he took part in the insurrection of Masaniello against the Spaniards, organizing his students and dependants into a secret band under the name of "La Compagnia della Morte." On the suppression of the insurrection Falcone fled to France, but subsequently returned to Naples, where he died in 1665. The works of Falcone are few in number, and highlyvalued. They are chiefly military scenes, and are prized for their fidelity to nature, variety of expression, and harmony and brilliancy of coloring. CLAUDE. CLAUDE LOKRAINE, ...