. John Pettie, , ; . LONDON AND THE ACADEMY 69 were clearly well satisfied that their own school of art wascertain to be welcomed both by the picture-dealers and thepublic. They very warmly bade me welcome to come to theirdiggings whenever I liked, an invitation which I as warmlyaccepted. Directly I saw their work I recognised that here wassomething quite new and original, unlike any of the schoolsrepresented by London artists, and that it was not only new,but that it had undoubted value of its own, and was alliedto some qualities that I remembered to have observed in theold master
. John Pettie, , ; . LONDON AND THE ACADEMY 69 were clearly well satisfied that their own school of art wascertain to be welcomed both by the picture-dealers and thepublic. They very warmly bade me welcome to come to theirdiggings whenever I liked, an invitation which I as warmlyaccepted. Directly I saw their work I recognised that here wassomething quite new and original, unlike any of the schoolsrepresented by London artists, and that it was not only new,but that it had undoubted value of its own, and was alliedto some qualities that I remembered to have observed in theold masters. The young English painters of that day wereso anxious to crowd all they could into a little space inorder to have a better chance of being hung on the line,that they deemed it a sign of exceptional skill to arrangea group so that the heads nearly touched the top of thepicture and the feet stood on the lower edge of the frame,while the background was crowded into the intermediatespaces. The Scotchmen laughed at these artifices
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