Word: artistical
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...emulation is excited, and works of merit brought to the notice of the public in a very attractive manner. It is hoped that this method of exhibition will do away with the custom of jockeying pictures, so common among picture-dealers, and so detrimental to the interests of the artist. The recent exhibitions of the club have been highly successful, the last one particularly so. The natural faults are perhaps noticeable in a certain tameness of subjects and some startling effects in color, especially in landscapes, where an extreme verdure is depicted, not warranted by the droughts of recent summers...
...represent an old man absorbed in study, and took far more delight in giving in firm, strong lines all the details of a homely interior. The flood of light warms one's very heart, and the shagginess of the lion delights us nearly as much as it did the artist himself...