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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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le for his commission we knownot; certain it is that he brought back nothing for that purpose that he might not have hadwithout the journey. His picture, however, when finished was considered one of the best ofthe series, and still holds its owu alongside the Battle of Salamis by Kaulbach, and theworks of Piloty, Hess, and Miiller. His reputation does not rest on these larger and morepretending works, but upon his portraits and the Heads he painted on themes found in thecourse of his visit to Egypt and later (1873) in the Crimea. Among these, the jSTeapolitanFisher-boy ranks perhaps first, in popularity at least, but his Fellah-Woman, his Odalisque, and his Gipsy-woman of the Crimea, are also great fayorites with the public.The Odalisque is almost as weU known as the Neapolitan boy. Among his portraits, too,that of Queen Luisa of Prussia has been the subject of a sort of ovation at the hands of theartists own people, and, indeed, the graceful figure of the good and beautiful woman de-
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> -VIP^->-<■ , - ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 241 scending the steps of her palace has met with a welcome the world o\-er, and has been repro-duced by every known process, to meet the varied popular demand. Another picture that has taken the popular fancy is The Brothers by Yogel, in theDresden Gallery. Christian Lebeeecht Vogel was born in Dresden in 1759. He studied his art underSchcinau, the Director of the Dresden Academy, who inherited French traditions from theteaching of Silvestre, brought from Paris by August the Strong to take charge of his newAcademy, and to be court-painter. In 1780, at the age of twenty-one, Vogel had begun tomake himself a name, and was invited by Count Solms-Wildenfels to accompany him to hisChateau near Wildenfels, a small town near Zwickau in the Erzgebirge, where he was keptemployed for a long time in painting pictures for his patron and for his patrons friends, theowners of neighboring castles. Considering, says Woltmann, the comparatively

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