Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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, and made him known Avhere his work as a portrait-painter would never havecarried his name. His principal achievement in this direction is his The Avenger of hisHonor, a picture familiar to the shop-windows and always sure to attract the gaze of thepassing crowd. The subject is the unexpected return of a husband to his home, where he findsthe betrayer of his honor seated among a party of guests invited in his absence, and makingmerry about his own table. Like another Ulysses, he has made short work of the offender,and it cannot be denied that the artist has shown considerable dramatic power in depictingthe varied emotions of the spectators of this grim tragedy. Other pictures bj^ Angeli, skilful ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 26: works, but less striking, are Young Love, tlie Italian Lovers, and The Refused Abso-lution, tMs last, a picture reckoned among the artists chief productions.
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THE PRINCESS HENRY OF THE NETHERLANDS. FROM THE PAINTING BY HE NRICH VON ANGELI. The Souvenir of the Fair by C. von Pausinger, is a trilie which we have inserted in ouriple of the German way of treating this class of subjej^ts, than as collection rather as an examj 264 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. worthy of miicli consideration for itself. This smart soubrette in the costume (above her waist)of a postilion of Lonis XY.s time, is betrayed in her masquerading by her essentially nine-

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