. Art and artists of our time . thishe was successful from the start, and rapidly rising in favor found himself before longestablished as the painter of the high aristocracy, first in Vienna, and at last in all thepalaces of Europe. A list of the portraits painted by Angeli would include almost everymember of the royal and imperial houses of Europe. He is often criticised as a flatterer oflis subject: a charge that seems to have no better foundation than a certain softness in thehandling—very skilful withal—and a preference for the best side of his sitter, a jjreferencecertainly not peculiar t
. Art and artists of our time . thishe was successful from the start, and rapidly rising in favor found himself before longestablished as the painter of the high aristocracy, first in Vienna, and at last in all thepalaces of Europe. A list of the portraits painted by Angeli would include almost everymember of the royal and imperial houses of Europe. He is often criticised as a flatterer oflis subject: a charge that seems to have no better foundation than a certain softness in thehandling—very skilful withal—and a preference for the best side of his sitter, a jjreferencecertainly not peculiar to this artist. From the time when Apelles painted Alexander inprofile, to hide a defect in one of the royal eyes, dowTi to our own day, the powerfiil andthe rich have expected of the artists they employ that they would make as good a reportof them to posterity as a decent respect for truth would permit. If Angeli have offended,this is, we believe, the head and front of the matter, and it is offset by the fact that he gives. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 26r as, in all his portraits, a distinct and individual character, which extends even to the dress ofhis sitter. Thus, in the portrait of then crown-princess, now the ex-empress Victoria, the
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