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Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ntic form, with an appeal to their imagination, adomestic experience that has as many manifestations as there are modes of human life. Thereturn of every kind of father has an interest (either of attraction or repulsion) to his par-ticular family; but it cannot be said, that all of them, if painted, would have tlie same interestfor the world at large. Therefore we have no end of Sailors Eeturns, Soldiers Eeturns (themodern variety), with Warriors Returns (for the antique or medijeval expression) and corre- 212 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. spondiug Farewells—all of wliicli used to be painted in pairs, and sold as sucli, and Mr. Bey-schlags picture here presented takes its natural place in the series. We confess to findingthe Father in this case a rather wooden personage: he seems to find some difficulty inkeeping his right leg in his boot, and has, we may suspect, the air of being a victim to loco-motor ataxia, but the other members of the family are less open to criticism. The young
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the FATHERS RETURN. FROM THE PAINTING BY JULIUS BEYSCHLAG. daughter is a pleasing womanly figure as she looks up lovingly at her father, holding thenosegay of flowers that he would take from her were not one hand occupied with cordiallygrasping the hand of his comely wife, and the other with supporting the baby-daughter sit-ting on his arm. In front of the group the son and heir, a pretty child in velvet doublet andIbreeches with hat-and-feather, is proudly marching off, trundling his fathers sword. To a tuue by fairies played. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 213 All are on their way to the castle, preceded at some distance by the mounted man-at-armsleading his masters horse, who extends a greeting to the two serving-women sitting waitingfor the coming of the family under the branches of the old oak. The warden has lowered thedrawbridge, and stands at guard in the shadow of the portal; from a window in the donjon-tower a banner is idly flapping in the air, and two women by the parapet of

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