Excerpt from Stories of the English Artists From Vandyck to Turner, 1600-1851 The inclusion of Vandyck, Lely, Kneller, Fuseli, Raeburn, and Wilkie as English artists possibly requires some comment. The first named four, though undoubtedly of foreign extraction, made this country the home of their adoption, and here they did their principal work, in England and for English patrons. In the case of Raeburn and Wilkie, if the same excuse is not allowed to serve, and if any patriotic Scotsman resents their being numbered among ...
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Excerpt from Stories of the English Artists From Vandyck to Turner, 1600-1851 The inclusion of Vandyck, Lely, Kneller, Fuseli, Raeburn, and Wilkie as English artists possibly requires some comment. The first named four, though undoubtedly of foreign extraction, made this country the home of their adoption, and here they did their principal work, in England and for English patrons. In the case of Raeburn and Wilkie, if the same excuse is not allowed to serve, and if any patriotic Scotsman resents their being numbered among the English, we must defend our selves by urging that Wilkie settled in London very early, and Raeburn rather late, in his career, and that both were prominent members of the English Royal Academy. With the exception of Rowlandson, whose reputa tion is founded upon work in pen and ink and wash, and Turner, who was a master in nearly every medium, the artists selected painted chie y, if not exclusively, in oil-colour. The stories of the painters in water-colour, a branch of art so thoroughly English in its ori 'n and development, might well form the subject 0 a separate volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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