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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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result of Mr. Brownsearly study; it represented earnest work and high-toned sentiment; but hedid not pause in his pursuit of artistic knowledge on the achievement of onetriumph, for his ambition admitted of no middle ground: his aim was thehighest. In 1858 he received the grand prize of the Art Union of Rome, andin 1860, returning to the United States, settled for a time in New York, hav-ing brought with him a large number of drawings and studies, besides severalfinished pictures, all of which were warmly praised by both artists and critics.The cpiestion is often asked how Mr. Brown produces the excpiisite atmos-pheric effects for which his canvases are so famous; but it is a secret thatbelongs to the artist, and one which he cannot himself solve. We often hearof the method of this or that artist—how this one glazes and that one scum-bles ; but it does not reveal the secret of the cunning touch, nor of the senti-ment which inspires each stroke of the brush. Hawthorne, in his Marble
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«Q o I w -s ■TAMES IT. BEARD. 1)3 Faun, says that Mr. Brown is an artist who has studied Nature with suchtender love that she takes him to her intimacy, enabling him t reproduce herin landscapes that seem the reality of a better earth, and yet are but the truthof the very scenes around us, observed by the painters insight, and inter-preted for us by his skill. By his magic the moon throws her light far outof the picture, and the crimson of the summer night absolutely glimmers onthe beholders face. Among Mr. Browns patrons are the Prince of Wales; the Prince Borghese,of Rome; Lady Cremorne, of London ; ex-Governors John A. Dix, Rodman,and Fairbanks; the late A. T. Stewart, of New York, and Alvin Adams, ofBoston; and Samuel C. Hooper and T. G. Appleton, of the latter city. Mr.George L. Clough, of Boston, owns his Lake of Nemi. This work, and The Temple of Peace, are beautiful and representative. The well-known painter of domestic animals, Mr. James H. Beard, wasborn in Buffal

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