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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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n his studio. But it is like enough he may have taken Israels as amodel, and looked for his subjects in the same general direction. He has far less feeling andsentiment than Israels, and he is more bent on telling a story. Where Israels is content withmerely recording a situation, simplifying it to the last point—a isecret learned of the oldDutchmen—and setting it in as near an approach to the magically lighted gloom of thosesame older men as he can compass, Artz is thinking of how best to make himself understoodby the ordinary spectator, how best to please those Avho are content to find in a picture asimple story clearly told. The picture we copy, The Visit to Grandfather, is a companionto his Visit to Grandmother, exhibited at Amsterdam in 1883, and is little more than avariant on that composition. Johannes Bosboom, born at the Hague in 1817, learned his art of Jacobus Van Brie, aPntch artist who had studied with his brother, Matthias Van Brie, who, in his turn, had been M^\ ^ ^
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/ ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 325 taught in Paris in tlie school of Vien. Bosboom was also, for a time, in the studio of Grirodet,and thus his art should by rights have some flavor of its French descent, but in fact nothingof the sort is to be detected in it. His early work may very likely have shown somethingmore akin to the ostentatious science of Granet, or the cold correctness of Peter Neefs, but he

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