Excerpt from The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting in America From Colonial Times to the Present Nor in the years preceding the Revolution had the scanty traditions of painting been favoured by local environments. Men's minds were turned to other things than art, and the only conception held of painting was as a means of producing portraits. In the language of the times, the limner (this title itself a corruption of the old English word illuminer, namely, of manuscripts) was spoken of as having an ...
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Excerpt from The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting in America From Colonial Times to the Present Nor in the years preceding the Revolution had the scanty traditions of painting been favoured by local environments. Men's minds were turned to other things than art, and the only conception held of painting was as a means of producing portraits. In the language of the times, the limner (this title itself a corruption of the old English word illuminer, namely, of manuscripts) was spoken of as having an accurate pencil in the deline ation of counterfeit presentments. The school from which he had graduated was more than sel dom that of carriage painting. 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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