. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. inguished him-self by his works, he gaveway to his passion for gam-ing, and in spite of all thatnature and superior talentshad done for him,
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. inguished him-self by his works, he gaveway to his passion for gam-ing, and in spite of all thatnature and superior talentshad done for him, he diedin 1642 in a state of povertyand dejection. His paint-ings are pre-eminentlyesteemed for their beauty,expression and Penitence of St. Peter,the latter of which has been Among his masterpieces are ratedand Christ Crowned with Thorns,copied in a variety of forms until it is one of the most familiar ofthe pictures representing the crucifixion and the death of the magic touch of Guides pencil is the Christian world thusindebted for the lesson it has learned of Christs sufferings thattruth might be triumphant. Of his other pictures The Massa-cre of the Innocents, the frescoes of the Aurora, *The Concertof Angels and Fortune arc prominently named, as indicatingthe excellence of his genius, with special reference to the por-traiture of the highest type of creation. i PLATT K. SPENCKIi, DISTINGUISHED TEACIIEK OF PENMANSHIP. 3il. Piatt R. Spencer. / ^A
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