. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. W Q ^ O S i^ >* 5 w «5 hJ <-) J ?41 <; § ^ ^^ -J a 2 M 5 H E^ HH 5^ ^ ^0 o ?G V .i^ H 1 a ^ g i:i ;i t3 t^; H y Pi H K H !. ^ ^ J Pi ^ (75 ?§ h Tl» yokkPUBliC LIBRARY ASVO«, LJEJ-OX ANB HORSLEY. 83 John Callcott Horsley was born at Brompton in 1817 : at the beginningof our notice of Callcott we referred to the nature of his early such parentage, and, from the earliest dawn of life, breathing as it werean atmosphere of Art, it would have been strange indeed if a child so circum-stanced had not grow
. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. W Q ^ O S i^ >* 5 w «5 hJ <-) J ?41 <; § ^ ^^ -J a 2 M 5 H E^ HH 5^ ^ ^0 o ?G V .i^ H 1 a ^ g i:i ;i t3 t^; H y Pi H K H !. ^ ^ J Pi ^ (75 ?§ h Tl» yokkPUBliC LIBRARY ASVO«, LJEJ-OX ANB HORSLEY. 83 John Callcott Horsley was born at Brompton in 1817 : at the beginningof our notice of Callcott we referred to the nature of his early such parentage, and, from the earliest dawn of life, breathing as it werean atmosphere of Art, it would have been strange indeed if a child so circum-stanced had not grown up with some strong predilection in favour of one orother of those professions of which the influences surrounded and filled his taste led him at a very early age towards drawing, and there are now, inthe possession of his family, sketches executed by him when only eight ornine years old, that are regarded as very creditable for so young a hand,even considering the advantages which the boy-artist possessed. So soonas his friends determined that he should practise painting as a profession,he was placed, by his uncles advice, at the academy conducted by Mr. next entered the
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