Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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ver have assumed such an attitude of abject submission toward her sub-jects, as is seen in this picture. In general, however, given his subject—and Wauters, no morethan the rest of the historical painters, seems to be governed by any fixed purpose in thechoice of a subject—this is a capable and well-eqiiipped artist. Some of his portraits areexcellent; one of the best is that of the young son of Mr. Somgee, of Brussels, the owner of a gallery of modern pictures in that city. The boy has been riding on the beach accompanied III 312 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. by his dog, and lias stopped his cantering for a moment, to looli our way. Another well-known picture by Wauters, The Madness of Hugo van der Goes, is in the Brussels Museum.Edouard-Jean-Conead Hammaw, the painter of the Andrea Vesalius, was born atOstend in 1819. He studied under De Keyser at Antwerp, but afterward went to Paris, wherehe has since continued to live and work. He is principally known as a painter of historical
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ANDREA VESALIUS. FROM THE PICTURE BY EDOUARO HAMMAN. anecdotes, but he has also painted portraits and genre subjects. His Adrien Willaert ac-companying the Performance of a Mass of his own Composition before the Doge of Venice,is his most important picture: it is in the museum at Brussels. The Andrea Vesalius repre-sents the famous Belgian anatomist prefacing a dissection of the cadaver which he is aboutto undertake, by an act of devotion. The treatment of the subject is, as always with Ham-

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