The Scottish Review, Volume 30A. Gardner, 1897 - Scotland |
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... given British painting a national flavour , for if before his day there had been art in England there had been no English art . Prejudice among the painters themselves , however , prevented the pure English vein of observation and ...
... given British painting a national flavour , for if before his day there had been art in England there had been no English art . Prejudice among the painters themselves , however , prevented the pure English vein of observation and ...
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... given them the same high place in the world's art as they occupy in the British School . In water - colour the classic convention , which was based upon admiration for Claude and the Poussins , found able and per- sonal exponents in ...
... given them the same high place in the world's art as they occupy in the British School . In water - colour the classic convention , which was based upon admiration for Claude and the Poussins , found able and per- sonal exponents in ...
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... given Ruskin's eloquent defence of Turner , Browning's intense interest in living passion and mediævalism , and Tennyson's romance and careful noting of natural fact to literature , which was to be further Victorian Art . 9.
... given Ruskin's eloquent defence of Turner , Browning's intense interest in living passion and mediævalism , and Tennyson's romance and careful noting of natural fact to literature , which was to be further Victorian Art . 9.
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... given over to conven- tionality , which they believed to have crept into art under the commanding influence of Raphael , and , finding in the simple work of his predecessors something of the same spirit as animated themselves , they ...
... given over to conven- tionality , which they believed to have crept into art under the commanding influence of Raphael , and , finding in the simple work of his predecessors something of the same spirit as animated themselves , they ...
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... given Hunt talent and intellectual power , but denied him the æsthetic sense and the craftsman's skill without which all else is useless in art . Associated with the pre - Raphaelites , but not of them , was a considerably older man ...
... given Hunt talent and intellectual power , but denied him the æsthetic sense and the craftsman's skill without which all else is useless in art . Associated with the pre - Raphaelites , but not of them , was a considerably older man ...
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