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Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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in anotherfamous portrait, TheBlue Boy, that he didthis. Whether or not itbe true that he deliber-ately painted these pic-tures to refute his rivalstheory, matters very lit-tle beside the fact thatthey do refute it. Forone of the chief charmsof Gainsboroughs workis the delicacy of his col-or-harmonies, in whichhe was entirely original.But this story brings outvery sharply the differ-ence between these twoartists: Reynolds regu-lating his art and life on safe and ordinaryprinciples, Gainsborough following always thebeckoning of a dreamy, poetic temperament;the one a man of the world, the other simplyan artist. Sir Joshua was born at Plympton, four milesfrom Plymouth, in Devonshire, in 1723. His I9°5-) HOW TO STUDY PICTURES. 685 father, rector of the grammar-school, early the Mediterranean station, invited the youngtrained him in classical studies, intending his painter to accompany him in his ship, theson to be an apothecary; but he displayed Centurion. Thus he was able to visit Rome,
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OF MRS. SIDDONS. BY THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH. such an inclination for drawing, diligentlycopying the prints which fell in his way, thatthe father yielded and sent him to London as astudent of art. After two years he returned toDevonshire and established himself as a portrait-painter in Plymouth, where he was taken up byCommodore Keppel, who, being appointed to spending two years there in very close study,especially of the works of Raphael and Michel-angelo. It was while painting in the corridorsof the Vatican that he contracted a cold whichbrought on the deafness that afflicted him dur-ing the rest of his life. Leaving Rome, hevisited Parma, where he fell under Correggios 686 HOW TO STUDY PICTURES. (June, influence, then Florence and Venice, in thelatter city studying the works of the great col-orists. On his way home he stopped in Paris,making acquaintance with the work of Rubens.Arrived in London, he settled in St. MartinsLane, and painted a portrait of his patron,Commodore (then Lord) K

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