. John Pettie, , ; . V ,5^^^^-tv* «K0 1U tk^i u /o r ;^; 1^ AGENTS America . The Company 64 & 66 Fifth Avenuz, New York Australasia The Oxford University Press, Melbourne Canada . The Macmillan Company of Canada, Richmond Si reet West, Toronto India . Macmillan & Company, Ltd. Macmillan Building, Bombay 309 Bow Bazaar , Calcutta TO MRS. PETllEFOR REMEMBRANCE PREFACE KWTW^ After reading anartists biography,John Pettie onceturned to his sisterand said : Well, noone will ever writemy life; it has beenmuch too was, indeed, a lifespent amid quietwa
. John Pettie, , ; . V ,5^^^^-tv* «K0 1U tk^i u /o r ;^; 1^ AGENTS America . The Company 64 & 66 Fifth Avenuz, New York Australasia The Oxford University Press, Melbourne Canada . The Macmillan Company of Canada, Richmond Si reet West, Toronto India . Macmillan & Company, Ltd. Macmillan Building, Bombay 309 Bow Bazaar , Calcutta TO MRS. PETllEFOR REMEMBRANCE PREFACE KWTW^ After reading anartists biography,John Pettie onceturned to his sisterand said : Well, noone will ever writemy life; it has beenmuch too was, indeed, a lifespent amid quietwaters, away fromthe storm and stressof action. Its verycalmness, the easeand rapidity with which success was won, rob thebiographer of picturesque opportunities. Pettie,moreover, was an indifferent correspondent, for hehated letter - writing, and he left nothing in theshape of diaries or documents (beyond a rough vii. viii JOHN PETTIE and iiicoiii})lete list of his pictures) available forbiographical purposes. These are probably thereasons why, though fifteen years have passed sincehis death, no monograph on John Pettie yetappeared. These fifteen years, however, have witnesseda growing appreciation of his work, and especiallyof his power and influence as a colourist. It isincreasingly recognised that Pettie with the othermemljers of the Scott Lauder School—with GeorgePaul Chalmers, McTaggart, Orchardson, and therest—counts as one of the forces in nineteenthcentury art, and that his work has the elements ofdramatic power, of brilliant colour, and individualstyle which make for permanent greatness. Thismust be the justification for the present volume,which professes to be little more than a plain presenta-tion of the essential facts of the artists career with anattempt to indicate how his personal character isreflected in his work, and what the nature and valueof that work is. His soul and s
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