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Title: British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Painters -- Great Britain Painting -- Great Britain
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lia, The Virgin Mary and the ChildJesus, and St. John the Evangelist, all of them productions of greatmerit, both as regards feeling and artistic execution ; the second of thethree named is treated after the manner of the early Italian painters, withsome of whom it wall bear a. very favourable comparison. St. John leadingthe Virgin to his Home after the Crucifixion, exhibited in the followingyear, is a composition distinguished by deep pathos, and shows that theartists visit to the galleries of Italy had exercised a powerful and beneficialinfluence on his mind. In 1853 Mr. Dobson exhibited two pictures, one, Tobias, with Raphael,his Guardian-angel, on their Journey to Medea, is in the possession ofMr. Eden, of Preston. The two figures, habited as pilgrims, are ascendinga gentle acclivity: the head of young Tobias is exquisitely tender inexpression, but Raphael is scarcely an angelic vision, though the workapproaches the character of those now generally known as Raffadksque. The 3HAfiy
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THE CHARITY OF DORCAS.From a Painting by Williim Cliarles Thomas Dohscn, R.A. D 0 B S O N. qj artist is quite content to come after him of Urbino, and cares not to lookfarther back in the catalogue of painters for a model of imitation : in doingthis he acts wisely and well. The second picture, called the Chorister,was unfortunately placed in the octagon room, and in a light that precludedany satisfactory judgment upon it. The Charity of Dorcas, engraved in this work, was exhibited in1854, and belonged to Mr. Lewis Pocock, one of the secretaries of theArt Union of London. It is a work of an elevated character, perhapsshowing a little too much of the appearance of an argiuncntiini ad viiscri-cordiam. in the condition of the destitute to be altogether agreeable, yet stillit must be regarded as the emanation of a mind seeking to inculcate a holylesson in a most attractive form ; and the picture is one its owner may wellfeel proud in possessing. We presume it was in consequence of the Quee

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