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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
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inmates of the almshouses which constitute TheHarbour of Refuge, and who are dispersed about the garden walks of thequadrangular building, seem only to be quietly waiting for their dismissionfrom earth. One other painting only was exhibited at the Academy after that justmentioned. The Right of Way appeared three years later, namely, in1875 • ■^^s have Introduced an engraving. While it was still hanging on thewalls of the Academy, drawing to It the notice of every visitor, the hand ofthe gifted artist was arrested by death. This event occurred in the month ofJune of the same year: consumption, that fell disease which so often layshold of genius, took from us, at the comparatively early age of thirty-five,one whom English Art would but ill have cared to lose. Of what may be termed idyllic painting Frederick Walker was unquestion-ably one of the ablest representatives, and in it he appealed to a deeper feelingthan is generally to be found among the artists of this school. Defects of
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IS o ? f YORK:3RARY AS.Of^, LENOX ANU HOLL. ijg Style were occasionally to be noticed, but they were in a great measureredeemed by grace of composition and the expression of a deep and earnestsympathy, kind and true, with every phase and condition of human life : ithas been well said of his works that they tell us over and over again of themanifold beauties, in form and colour, which beset our every-day life, if wehave eyes to see and sensitiveness to appreciate. Frank Holl, a son of the celebrated engraver of the same name, wasborn in London in 1845, and was educated in the school of UniversityCollege. Soon after he had passed the fifteenth year of his age his desireto be a painter led him to enter himself as a probationer of the RoyalAcademy, and a few months afterwards he was admitted a student. Atthe distribution of prizes in 1862 Mr. Holl received a silver medal for thebest drawing from the antique, and also the premium of ten pounds. Apicture, A Mother and Sick Child, was painte

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