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Title: European enamels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cunynghame, Henry H (Henry Hardinge), Sir, 1848-1935
Subjects: Enamel and enameling
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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The reason, perhaps, of this is to be
found partly in the insensate craving for novelty,
which forbids ladies to be seen often with the same
dresses or sets of ornaments. Hence, a striking
enamel would not be popular because it would be
recognized, whereas a few large diamonds in practi-
cally no setting at all could be worn again and
again, and would suit one dress after another.
With one exception, so far as I am aware, no
regular painter of distinction has taken to enamel-
ling. The exception is Professor von Herkomer,
who, with the extraordinary characteristic energy
and ingenuity that distinguish him, has struck
out several new paths of his own. He has executed
an enormous enamelled portrait of the Emperor of
Germany. This work seems to have puzzled many
of the art critics, who did not know whether to
admire it or not. Judged by the standard of oil
painting, it is, of course, deficient in delicacy of
gradation, and many other qualities that are peculiar
to oil. But as a decorative work it appears to me
of extraordinary merit, and is probably the finest
portrait in enamel in existence. The Professor has

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THE LATE BISHOP MANDELL CREIGHTON BY H. VON HERKOMER

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