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A Century Of Painters Of The English School V1 - With Critical Notices Of Their Works, And An Account Of The Progress Of Art In England (1866) (Paperback)
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A Century Of Painters Of The English School V1 - With Critical Notices Of Their Works, And An Account Of The Progress Of Art In England (1866) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER II. WILLIAM HOGARTH. The great Founder of the English
School?His personal Appearance and Character?The true Originality
of his Art?The " Marriage a la Mode " described?Its clever
Accessaries and Storied Back-grounds?The First and Last Scenes
analysed?His great Merits as an Artist? Invention?Colour and
Characterstic Drawing?Description of an Interesting Work in
Hogarth's Manner hitherto overlooked. In the preceding chapter,
reserving one great name for separate consideration in this, we
have traced the progress of art, and have described the state into
which, during the first part of the last century, it had fallen in
this country?fallen step by step lower and lower as each succeeding
painter studied his predecessor rather than nature?either painting
by the yard on the walls of hall or palace worn-out allegories,
compounded of vapid commonplaces which had formed the stock
properties of a long succession of mere decorators; or, in
portrait, striving to catch the fashionable manner, the stale airs
and graces of poor humanity, rather than honest individual
expression, which, be it noble or mean, has in its native truth a
charm that fashion cannot improve, but surely destroys. "When
things are at the worst they will mend," and truly things were at
the worst, so far as art goes, when sturdy William Hogarth (born in
London in 1697), HOGARTH, THE REFORMER OF ART. 45 after passing
honestly through his seven years' apprenticeship as an engraver on
silver plate, began to think for himself, and found that copper,
under the influence of true art, far transcended silver merely
graven with fine lines and dead repetitions. Began to think for
himself !?here is the true master-key?began to look at the world
around him instead of at dark canvases, pictures over which Time
h...
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