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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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showed me, too, a greatnumber of miniature pictures. Among the rest, Mr. Hancock and his lady, Mr. Smith, ofSouth Carolina, whom you saw the other day in Boston, Mr. Custis, and many others. He showed me, likewise, draughts, or rather sketches, of gentlemens seats in Virginia,where he has been—Mr. Corbins, Mr. Pages, General Washingtons, etc. Also a variety ofrough drawings made by great masters in Italy, which he keeps as models. He showedme several imitations of heads, which he has made in clay, as large as the life, with his handsonly. Among the rest, one of his own head and face, which was a great likeness. He isingenious. He has vanity, loves finery, wears a sword, gold lace, speaks French, is capable offriendship, and strong family attachments, and natural affections. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 2 19 Our readers will certainly agree with John Adams in his judgment of this work. Thepersonages forming the group are distinctly characterized even to the children, and there is as
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ALLEGORICAL FIGURE. ANAHITA, PERSIAN GODDESS OF THE MOON AND NIGHT. SKETCH FOR THE PAINTING IN THE CAPITOL AT ALBANY, NEW YORK, BY WILLIAM M. HUNT. BY PERMISSION OF MRS. HUNT. much ease and naturalness in the attitudes and in the general arrangement as is usuallyfound in such family-pieces. We are reminded of some of the Dutch portrait-groups; the 220 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. dogs head appearing in front of the table, and tlie dish of fruit, Iecall pictures by Snyders,and it is possible that Peale may have had some such model in his mind. At the end of thetable, at the left hand, Mr. St. George Peale, a brother of Charles Willson Peale, is engagedin drawing with a j^encil the portrait of his mother, Avho was Margaret Triggs, and a grand-child whom she holds in her lap, and in front of whom is a tray with apples. Next to St.George Peale is a person whom the late Mr. Henry T. Tuckerman in his American Artistscalls Major Ramsay, the historian, but who, Mr. Hart assures us, is James P

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