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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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ch,without exaggeration; he finds his material in plenty in the dark browns and grays of thestained and weather-beaten scows and barges, in the red and yellow sails, the rainy skies, andthe water that reflects all these rich and mottled hues in its mirror, sometimes opaqu* andsometimes beautifully clear. The picture we have borrowed for our book shows him at hisbest in richness of color and play of light, but it is such effects as these that the process-printing of our day is puzzled to report. Clays is much admired in this country, and we havemany excellent examples of him in our private collections. EuGiiNE Joseph Verboeckhoven, an animal-painter who once enjoyed a wide reputa-tion, and who stiU, as recent sales have shown, holds his own in certain quarters, was bom at Warneton, a small town near Ypres, in 1799, and died in 1880. He was a prolific painter, and III 330 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME yet a careful one, never slighting his work, to which he brought a methodical mind and a
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TOO MUCH ZEAL. FROM THE PICTURE BY EUGENE VERBOECKHOVEN mechanical method, that in its microscopic finish and nicety of detail was well suited to the ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 331 comprehension of the public at large. For a long time he stood with the world of picture-buyers as the leading animal-painter, and even after the appearance of Rosa Bonheur, Jacque,

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