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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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s born at Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1824, and died there in 1879. He began his career as anartist at Diisseldorf in 1846, where at that time many of our young Americans thought theyhad found their Mecca, and at first he was inclined to be a sculptor, but in Paris he wasattracted to the work of Couture, and for a while worked in his studio. He found, however,a more powerful charm in the pictures of Millet, and became so much interested in the schoolof painters who are associated with the little village of Barbizon, near Fontainebleau^—though,in reality, of the four famous names. Millet and Rousseau, Corot and Diaz, only the first twolived,at Barbizon—that he devoted himself for a long time to a propaganda of their cult, andto him, more than to any one other person, is due the spread of their reputation in thiscountry. When he came back to America he brought pictures and sketches by Millet, thusintroduced for the first time to Hunts countrymen at home, and then began in his studio in
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MARGUERITE. FROM THE PICTURE BY WILLIAM M. HUNT. BY PERMISSION OF MRS. HUNT. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 251 Boston to teach the doctrines he had learned in Paris, touching the lips of his pupils withthe fire he had caught from the altar of Romanticism, then burning with its liveliest flames.To his studio in Boston flocked all that was earnest, ambitious, aspiring, among the youth of

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