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...Talented Copyist. Sam Kress was a man who had something less than a connoisseur's feeling for great art, who often bought his treasures by the lot. And his collection had become great only a few years before he startled the art world with his huge donation...
Kress was better known as an old master of business, but in his business as in his collecting, he was essentially a talented copyist. He was born in eastern Pennsylvania just three weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg, where his uncle and namesake was killed. His Pennsylvania Dutch family was moderately well off, and Sam, the second of six children, became a country schoolteacher at 17. After seven years of frugally saving part of his $25-a-month salary, he bought a notions store in Nanticoke, Pa.; three years later he bought out a wholesaler in Wilkes-Barre and looked...
...historians once maintained that Antonello traveled to Bruges to discover the oil painting technique developed by Jan van Eyck. More likely he learned it in Naples, from a copyist of Flemish paintings. For a year (1475-76) he taught the technique in Venice, where even the great Giovanni Bellini was eager to learn from him. What Antonello brought to Bellini (and through him, to Titian, Giorgione and Italian art in general) was nothing less than a new tool for rendering light. Having accomplished that, he returned to Messina...
...Reader Loewenbaum's sharp eyes failed to detect the faint signature, "C. Glinzer, 1867." The painting is a copy of Rembrandt's The Architect, and Copyist Glinzer chose to call it Archimedes (who was no mean architect...
...enough to be damned for the works of maturity, and to be praised for his youthful foibles. But, said Chirico, to put up with the "handiwork of an unskilled copyist, the output of a veritable mill...