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Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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urely domestic character. The room here depicted is in an old tavern inan English rui^al village where Millet has a house and where he loves to work. In these low-studded rooms, with their roughly-chamfered exposed beams, their long row of casementwindows with small panes looking out ux^on some careless-ordered garden, he groups his dramatis personcB, now of the olden time, now of to-day, making pictures that by their nat- III 270 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. uralness and simplicity, with not seldom grace and beauty in the shape of English maiden-hood plying unconsciously its pretty household tasks, have made his name a welcome one inour exhibitions and in those of Paris and London as well. He has great skill in lighting hispictures and in arranging his groups, and knows well the secret of making a picture. Theone we copy is a simple subject enough—one that would have contented a Dutchman of theolden time. A well-known guest has arrived at the old inn, and Audrey is bringing him the
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IN OCTOBER. FROM THE PAINTING BY D. RIDGWAY KNIGHT. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. CASSELL & CO. jug of ale that is to wash down the cold chicken and bread-and-cheese of his noonday bite.The sun streams in soft English radiance in at the window veiled below with the old drawn-work curtains with their rustic pattern of cocks-andhens, and, above, allowing a glimpse ofthe tree-tops in the garden, and of the sky. Audrey is a sturdy young person who might carryherself more seemly. Tis not for her that our young gentleman leans on his elbow, with asentimental reminiscence in his air. His visit to the village has a fairer face in view. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME.. 271 AViLLiAM J. Hennessy is another American who has found England a pleasant place forsojourning, and only rarely now sends home tidings of his doings. He was born in Thomas-town, Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1839, and brought to America by his parents, who came here tolive ten years later. He studied his art in the Academy, and continued

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