The Vernon Gallery of British Art Volume 3 (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. 1853 Excerpt: ... a Miner by Torchlight," purchased by Mr. Page, acting engineer of the Tunnel. He had, while occupied with these drawings for Mr. Hawes, become acquainted with the eminent engineer Sir Isambert Brunei, who urged the artist to visit Normandy, Brunei's native country: accordingly he set out, accompanied by his father, in 1838, and arrived at Rouen. The picturesque beauties of the old city so fascinated the young artist that he had no wish to proceed further, and he requested his father to leave him there for some time, to which, after a little hesitation, the latter consented, for his son had not attained his sixteenth year. The father put ten pounds into his hands, telling him " to make it last as long as he could, and to be sure to save enough to take him home again." This was his first lesson in economy, and he applied it well, for after staying a fortnight in Rouen and its vicinity, and travelling down the Seine to Havre, he reached London with a folio of sketches and five pounds, out of the ten, in his pocket. From this folio he selected a subject for the first picture exhibited the following year, at the Royal Academy, "French Soldiers Playing at Cards in a Cabaretit was favourably noticed by the critics of the exhibition. In the years 1839 and 1840, Mr. F. Goodall revisited Normandy, and in 1841 and 1842 he made a journey into Brittany. The principal pictures he painted during the above term, and the names of the purchasers, are these: --" Entering Church," Mr. Wells, of Redleaf; "The Soldier Defeated," Sir W. James; "Coming out of Church," Mr. Dawkins; "The Christening," Sir C. Coote; for this picture the artist received a prize of 50 from the British Institution; "The Return from C...