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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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ielman, Mr.Albert P. Ryder, Mr. Louis C. Tiffany, Mr. Francis Lathrop, Mr. Homer Mar-tin, Mr. John La Farge, Mr. Thomas Moran, Mr. J. Alden Weir, Mr. W. H.Low, Mr. William Sartain, Mr. Samuel Colman, Mr. George Inness, Mr. A.H. Wyaut, and a few others, were elected members, a principal bond of unionbeing the reverence felt for the earlier Italian masters and the early Spanish,Flemish, and Dutch painters. We are all of us, said one of them, realadmirers of the old masters; while the typical National Academician admiresLambinet, Bouguereau, Cabanel, Delaroche, Meyer von Bremen, and such menas Guido Reui and Murillo. Their first exhibition began on the 4th ofMarch, 1878, and was a surprise and a success. Mr. A. D. Shatttick was born in Francestown, New Hampshire, on the 9thof March, 1832. He painted the usual number of portraits, and entered theschool of the National Academy in New York City. His principal works arelandscapes with sheep and cattle, and sea-coast and lake scenes. They are
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s <0 ■ $ JOHN F. WEIR. 175 realistic in treatment, nice in feeling, placid in spirit, and excellent in the pre-vailing impression made by their rich verdure of foregrounds and cool stretchesof meadow. Mr. Shattuck has painted sheep with unusual success, and, un-like Verboeckhoven, without loss of truth and simplicity. Mr. John F. Weir, a son of Professor Robert W. Weir, is at the head ofthe Yale School of Fine Arts. His best-known paintings are Casting theShaft, Lago Maggiore, The Confessional, The Column of St. Mark,Venice, and The Culprit Fay. He wrote an official critical report on thepictures in the Centennial Exhibition, and contributed to the Princeton Re-view for May, 1878, a paper entitled American Art, its Progress and Pros-pects, from which the following extract is taken : We have seen Americanssettling abroad as artists, not for purposes of study, but that they may baskin what they are pleased to term a congenial art-atmosphere

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