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++++ On The Gift Of The Sheepshanks Collection: With A View To The
Formation Of A National Gallery Of British Art Richard Redgrave
Chapman and Hall, 1857 Art; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Art
/ Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Art / European; Art museums;
Art, British
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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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
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