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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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dravsm from Shakespeare,Don Quixote, Sterne, Addison, and Irving. It is nevertheless true that Leslie is one of thepainteis who owe a great deal to the engravers; his manner of painting, though learned andcompetent, was not agreeable, and his eye for color was very defective, so that when we havebeen delighted, as every one must be, in looking at the engravings of his pictures, with hisdesign, with his composition, his inimitable skill in telling his story, his refinement, and hissubtle humor, we receive almost a shock in coming upon the pictures themselves. He tellsus that the first original composition that made him known was the Sir Roger de CoverlyGoing to Church, a scene from the Spectator, which we copy. Another excellent exampleis the Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman from Sternes Tristram Shandy. The picture,(page 189), is sometimes called The Sentry-Box, from the scene of the anecdote: I amhalf distracted, Captain Shandy, said Mrs. Wadman, holding up her cambric handkerchief to
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ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 249 her left eye, as she approachd the door of my Uncle Tobys sentry-box; a mote, or sand, orsomething, I know not what, has got into this eye of mine; do look into it; it is not in thewhite. ... I see him yonder, with his pipe pendnlons on his hand, and the ashes falhng outof it—^looking—and looking—then rubbing his eyes and looking again, with twice the good-nature that ever Galileo looked for a spot in the sun. ... I protest, madam, said my uncleToby, I can see nothing whatever in your eye.— It is not in the white, said Mrs. Wadman.My Uncle Toby looked with might and main into the pupil. Inimitable Jack Bannister,says Tom Taylor, one of the pleasantest of actors, most genial of companions and kindest ofmen, and a genuine lover of art into the bargain, sat for the Uncle Toby, and it would be hardto find a better model for him. Other pictures of Leslies in which the same delicate humorappears are The Duke and the Duchess Reading Don Quixote, and S

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