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Title: The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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, his line isclear and strong and faithfully reproduces hismodels. That his work has so little interest is duemainly to this last virtue* If fortune had givenhim the compositions of Reynolds or of Law-rence to work from, his prints might now he dis-puted by collectors, but the by Waldo andNeagle, which were for the most part his portion, were calculated to increase neither his fame nor his skill. ■ Ariadne, finished in 1835, was practically hislast effort as an <• m that time he be- gins to figure as a painter. lie had already madesome attempts at portrait painting, a- a relief fromthe confinements of his profession, and had madehead- of John Frazee. the sculptor. Governor 0den, <»f his native state, and f James MadisOILThis last portrait he made in (833, at the residence of the ex-president in Virginia, and is now* theproperty of the Century A^ociation, of NewYork In (840 he made his only trip abroad, visiting 1 u The History of American Painting. by Samuel I sham.
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EDGE OF THE FORESTBy A.sher B. I lurand TLbc fflttClCUfl Ot tbe Collections 68 London and the chief continental cities and winter-ing m Italy, where he .studied and copied the oldmasters. I )n his return to this country, the follow-ing year, he was made the president of the XationalAcademy of Design, a post which ho held until e86z. Toward the end of his long life ho devoted histalents exclusively to landscape painting, winning afavourable reputation. When in his eighty-thirdyear, finding himself disqualified for active workby advancing age, he was obliged to lay aside hisbrush and passed the last seven years of his life inpeaceful contemplation of the beauties of the sur-rounding country upon the farm where he wasborn. His Edge of the Forest/ owned by the Cor-coran Gallery, poetical and dignified in conception,is probably his best known picture. It was paintedin 1871, and sold to the gallery in 1874. There isgood character in the trees, into the individualityof which he had <a kee

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