Identifier: britishpaintersw00newy (find matches)
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
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hild, in 1878. We must also add to the list Paul at Philippi, a work of considerable power. This last was made over to the Academy on his becoming an Academician in 1873. Besides this he is also a member of the Society of Painters in Water-colours, several of his works inthis department appearing in the Paris Exposition of 1878. It is scarcely possible to look at any of Mr. Dobsons productions without a feeling of assurance that he is animated by the highest spirit of Art: his aim is to employ it for the best purposes, not indirectly, as some artists do, but openly and avowedly to make it a great teacher of that which is true and good. He has that within him which ought to lead to higher ground than any he has yet taken, and which would fully justify any pretension of such anature. Our school is lamentably deficient in painters of sacred art; we have an abundance of genre artists, and some few historical ; what is wanted are men who will be to the Protestant faith what Raffaelle, Correggio, the
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THE CHILD JESUS GOING DOWN WITH HIS PARENTS TO NAZARETH, From a Painting by William Charles Thomas Dobson, R.A, Hi-)-

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