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Title: Landscape and figure painters of America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940
Subjects: Landscape painting Figure painting
Publisher: New York : Privately printed
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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of Constable he sent for and com-pletely changed his painting, The Massacreof Scio, which was at the time being exhibited.And in 1847 ne writes: Constable dit que lasuperiorite du vert de ses prairies tient a cequil est un compose dune multitude de vertsdifferents. Ce quil dit ici du vert des prairiespeut sappliquer a tous les autres tons. Andagain: Constable, homme admirable, est unedes gloires anglaises. Je vous en ai deja parle,et de limpression quil mavait produite aumoment ou je peignais le Massacre de Scio.Lui et Turner sont de veritables reformateurs.Us sont sortis de Porniere des paysagistesanciens. Notre ecole a grandement profitede leur example. Gericault etait revenu toutetourdi de lun des grands pay sages quilnous a envoyes. Delacroix and the other originators of theRomantic movement in France were verymuch impressed by the forceful work of Con-stable and at once adopted many of his prin-ciples. They were struck by the originalityof his method, and he had a great effect on
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Plate VIII. — Cephalus and Procris. Claude le Lorrain. A BRIEF HISTORY 21 them and on the School of 1830, Millet,Daubigny, Rousseau, Troyon, and the modernsuccessor of Claude, Corot, who, although not m^^sendowed with the imaginative power of Turner,yet idealized more than any landscape painterbefore him. His lovely notes of early morn-ing and the quiet and rest of evening are anew personal and poetical revelation to theworld. (See Plate 13.) Like Constable hewas rejected by the critics of his day. Theysaid his work was unfinished and careless.But the opinion of the few who recognized thecoming of a genius in each case prevailed, andpublic opinion has placed them both in theirtrue places among the most famous artists.Turner occupies a unique place in the historyof art (see Plate 12), as the most imaginativelandscape painter the world has seen, and asone of its supreme colourists. About the middle of the nineteenth centurythe impressionists appeared in France. Theyhad a new theory of

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