Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Century of Painters of the English School, Vol. 2 of 2: With Critical Notices of Their Works, and an Account of the Progress of Art in England
Page His mystic Poems - His Practice in Oil and his imitative Powers - Mistaken Charges of unfair Rivalry with other Painters - Effect of his water-colour Art upon his Practice in Oil - His early and later Manners described - And his best Works examined - Com pared With Claude - Reminiscences of him - The Varnishing Days - Summary of his Art - Had no pre-raphaelite Tendencies - His great Industry - Gift to the Nation - Death Increased Value of his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
