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Identifier: frick-31072001452285 (find matches)
Title: Early English, Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Blakeslee Galleries, 353 Fifth Avenue .. (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Blakeslee Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council – METRO

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. Height, so inches. Width, 40 inches. ALTHOUGH Crome was nearly forty years of age beforehe finally exhibited in the Royal Academy, he had for sometime enjoyed considerable reputation and popularity in theprovinces with his landscapes, and had managed to attractabout him a considerable following among the youngerartists; and he founded a society at Norwich, where annualexhibitions were held. Here, too, he had his home andstudio. This picture is one of his great achievements, andin its color scheme is most unusual. The theme is a simpleone, depicting some trees and a stream ; the treatment ofthe greens, however, is masterly and satisfying to a degree,the results being obtained in a manner to defy analysis. Oneof the monarchs of the forest has been touched by the frost,and has turned in tone to a brilliant red, which is effectivelysuggested. The canvas is most simple, but is one of thosetruthful renditions that possesses great distinction. Purchased from Messrs. Thos. Agnew & Sons.
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LANDSCAPE. No. 55.RICHARD WESTALL, R.A. 1765—1836.The Youthful Jove. Height, 40 inches. Width, 50 inches. DRAWING master to the Princess Victoria, now Her Majestythe Queen, Westall was a member of the Royal Academyand a popular painter of his day; occupying the same housejointly with Sir Thomas Lawrence for years. This strongpicture of the infant Jove shows a nude child with powerfulface and limbs seated on a^ cloud, one arm resting on a goatthat lies beside him. Behind, an eagle crouches and regardshim. The beautiful flesh-color of the child is accentuatedby the brilliant lighting, and the entire tone of the pictureis one of much harmony.

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