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Title: British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Painters -- Great Britain Painting -- Great Britain
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ut such as have feltthe sharp pangs of a toothache. We have no notes of Bottom as Pyramus,his solitary contribution to the Academy exhibition of 1857, and pass on,therefore, to Dogberr)s Charge to the Watch, from Jlfuc/i Ado aboutA^oihing, which was exhibited in 1859, and was the means of attracting moregeneral notice to the works of this artist than they had hitherto gained; notmore because the picture was on a larger scale than any of his precedingcontributions, than on account of his possessing, from the number of figures,much higher interest. The guardians of the city, a motley group, havemustered to receive the instructions of their officer— You shall comprehendall vagrom men, &c. One of the good men and true stands forward toask, How if he will not stand ? This is a most grotesque figure ; and thewhole posse comitatits, with diversified Venetian costumes and weapons ofvaried date, is full of appropriate character : all are capitally painted. ro is.- .vf- - ASlOK, LSHOK AtO
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THE FRANCISCAN SCULPTOR AND HIS MODEL. From a Painting hy Henry Stacy Marks, R.A, MARKS. izg With reference to this artists The Franciscan Sculptor and his Model,the picture he exhibited in 1861, and which we have chosen for one of ourillustrations of his works, we may remark that the subject, so far as we know,is original in thought, and its development may be equally original to theartist. In itself the incident is simple, like that of all really good pictures.A brother of the Franciscan order, combining the professions of monk andsculptor, is bestowing his talent on the ornamentation of one of those ecclesias-tical edifices which, west and north, came through the Church, declined withthe Church, and is again reviving under the same influences. A comical-looking old man, holding a bottle, is perched on a scaffold erected to sustainthe model, while the enthusiastic monk plies his vocation with extraordinaryenergy and earnestness, unmoved by a grotesqueness in his sitter whichraises t

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