Identifier: gri_33125007719665 (find matches)
Title: The early Flemish painters; notices of their lives and works
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897
Subjects: Painting, Flemish Painting
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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sed Stephen to incur increased expenses.His means certainly became straightened. A new loanbecame necessary in 1448, and Loethener mortgagedhis house and promised to pay yearly ten Rhenishflorins as a perpetual charge. In 1451 the guild againchose him to represent their body in the senate, butthis was the painters ruin apparently; for he retiredbefore the expiration of his legal tenure of office, andthe mortgagee seized his house. Quad in the TeutscherNation Herrligkeit2—says, that Albert Diirer onhis way down (to Flanders) came to a powerful city(Cologne), and was invited by the authorities to look ata noble picture (Stephens). He admired it greatlywhereupon he was tauntingly informed that the artisthad died in a hospital. Was it not strange, he wastold, that men should be found willing to follow so poor 1 Merlo (J. J.) Die Meister der Alt-kolnischen Malerschule.p. 110 to 121. 2 Quad. ap. Merlo.—Nachrichten von dem Leben und denWerken Kolnischer Kiinstler. 8°. K6)n 1850. p. 438.
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Back ofFoldoutNot Imaged CHAP. XIV.) ITS INFLUENCE ABEOAD. 351 a profession and one leading to such a pitiful end.Durer made a quaint reply, and there the matterended. The subject of Stephens picture, or rather ofLoetheners picture, supposing the two men to be iden-tical, is the Adoration of the Magi in the centre,and the patron saints of the city on the wings. Thaton the right hand contains St. Gereon and his atten-dants ; the left, St. Ursula and eleven virgins; the closedshutters display an Annunciation. No styles were more divergent than those of Wilhelmand Stephen; and it is impossible to tell whether thelatter followed the discipline of the former. But, whilstin Wilhelm one discovers length and meagreness asspecially characteristic, a small, stout class of person-ages figures in the panels of Stephen. As the loftypointed style of architecture, exhibited in the cathedral,contrasts with the low and Saxon build of St. Gereons,so the pictures of the two great painters of Colognecont

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