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Scottish painters; a critical study (1888)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London: Seeley & Co. · leaf 86

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the commonplace quality in his conceptions is often redeemed by refinement in the management of feature, and by good, occasionally even by fine, colour. Another artist of much the same calibre was Colvin Smith, who won a considerable reputation by his male portraits. These are well drawn and… … Scott gave sittings. Smith died in 1875, at the age of eighty. From Colvin Smith to William Bonnar the transition is easy. The latter was born in 1800 and died in 1853. That comparatively short life was divided into three stages. In the first he was a house- decorator ; in the second, a painter of…

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