. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ,/f-JH. THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. (Pen and wash. Heseltine Collection.) comment. The most popular among the landscape-painters werealso those who sought inspiration abroad. The painters of Biblicalor mythological figures in rocky landscapes and learned per-spectives accounted the scenery of Holland tame and so little perception of its beauties, they naturally felt nodesire to reproduce them. As has happened in every age, the CONDITION OF ARTISTS 73 most meretricious talent found the readiest appreciation amongso-called co
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ,/f-JH. THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. (Pen and wash. Heseltine Collection.) comment. The most popular among the landscape-painters werealso those who sought inspiration abroad. The painters of Biblicalor mythological figures in rocky landscapes and learned per-spectives accounted the scenery of Holland tame and so little perception of its beauties, they naturally felt nodesire to reproduce them. As has happened in every age, the CONDITION OF ARTISTS 73 most meretricious talent found the readiest appreciation amongso-called connoisseurs, who saw in minute finish, exactness ofimitation, and kindred tricks of facile mediocrity the highest artisticachievement. The true masters, whose nobler genius demandedfranker and more characteristic expression, had a hard struggle forbare existence. The genre painters of this period often represent very modest in-teriors as adorned with a surprising number of pictures, and recently
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