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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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begun a picture—a groupof two peasant-women and a child—which he finished in Paris the next win-ter. In Barbizon he was attracted more by the cultivated fields than by theforest; and it was not until a few days previous to the end of his first summerthere that he mustered courage to call upon Millet, who received him withpeculiar warmth. I found as much to admire in the man, says Mr. Eaton, as I had found in his works. His studio was unlike any other I ever saw,except John La Farges; there had been less attempt to make a studio; hispictures in it were all turned to the wall, except the one that stood on theeasel ; he would not be diverted by them. The few that were visible werepanels of the earliest Flemish school, and several casts of the Egyptian antiqueand the Renaissance. The room was almost like the interior of a barn ; ayard separated the building from the artists house. Millet was then for thelir-t time at his ease financially, though In; was not yet able to live in advance
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WYA TT EA TON. 171 of his work—up to the hour of his death, in 1875, he was living on moneyadvanced to him on the pictures he was painting, and most of these wen-orders received several years previous when his prices were comparativelysmall. His deportment was quiet, even, and unaffected, and, except when hewas brought out by a question concerning something that especially interestedhim, or was annoyed by the presence of an antagonistic idea, he talked verylittle. His aim was art; the peasants that he happened to see in ear)y lifewere the subjects of his pictures, but he would have been equally at homewith any other subjects. He sought for expression rather in attitudes than infaces—the largeness of his art so led him. In those summer evenings at Barbizon Mr. Eaton was a frequent and wel-come visitor at the artists house, one of the artists sons being his friend.The party played dominoes, and occasionally discussed, in direct and simplefashion, the province and the trophies of pic

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