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Title: British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Painters -- Great Britain Painting -- Great Britain
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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he public papers became at length of a very painful nature. During the five years of Mr. Dyces official connection with the Schoolof Design, his easel and his palette were almost entirely neglected, the onlypictures painted by him being a Madonna and Child, which has neverbeen exhibited; St. Dunstan separating Edwy and Elgiva; two otherpictures to be referred to presently; and an architectural design, in theAcademy in 1839. It was at this time also that Dyce first turned his atten-tion to church music, a subject in which he afterwards became deeply versed. He was the founder of a society for the study and practice of churchmusic of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; it was entitled theMotet Society, and is now incorporated with the Ecclesiological Society.In 1842-3 he published, in two quarto volumes, the Book of Common Prayer,with the ancient canto fcrmo set to it at the Reformation, and accompaniedby two dissertations on that kind of music, and its applicability to English ORK
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D Y C E. bS words. He received for this work the Prussian Gold Medal of Science andArt from the King- of Prussia, who was then engaged, with Von Bunsen andthe Chevalier Neukomm, in framing a liturgy zuit/i iiiiisic for the new Evan-gelical State Church of that kingdom. On resigning the directorship of the School of Design, in 1843, he againapplied himself vigorously to Art, and was a regular attendant for a yearat Mr. Taylors life academy, in St. Martins Lane, sitting generally by theside of his friend Etty. The first result of this new study, one which, infact, he had never previously undergone, his Art-education having been ofthe most desultory kind, became immediately apparent in the picture of King Joash shooting the Arrow of Deliverance, exhibited at the Aca-demy in 1844, ^ntl forming one of our engraved illustrations. The subject istaken from the history narrated in the second book of Kings, ch. xiii., wherethe prophet Elisha, shortly before his death, directs the King of Israel

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