. Portrait . s portraits everywrinkle, every fold of the skin is carefully drawn, every hair of the head, everygleam of the plush capis conscientiously noted,and the texture is sosmooth that nothing canbe seen of the brush-work. Denner, in away, was the first por-trait painter of the mid-dle classes of peoplethat hitherto had notindulged in such lived in the first halfof the eighteenth cen-tury and spent nearly hisentire career in travelingabout and portrayingrich merchants and farmers, in the Northern parts ofEurope. It was a novelty to these people, but of courseknowing very little
. Portrait . s portraits everywrinkle, every fold of the skin is carefully drawn, every hair of the head, everygleam of the plush capis conscientiously noted,and the texture is sosmooth that nothing canbe seen of the brush-work. Denner, in away, was the first por-trait painter of the mid-dle classes of peoplethat hitherto had notindulged in such lived in the first halfof the eighteenth cen-tury and spent nearly hisentire career in travelingabout and portrayingrich merchants and farmers, in the Northern parts ofEurope. It was a novelty to these people, but of courseknowing very little about art, they insisted on likeness,an exact reproductionof reality. In accord-ance wiih these wishesDenner adopted his pe-culiar painstaking man-ner. A portraitist isnever absolutely inde-pendent; he must con-form to the taste andfancies of that part ofsociety which he appealsto. No matter whetherhe leads his patrons orwhether he will allowthem to lead him, hisstyle will be influencedand regulated by Portrait by Balthasar Dennei Tort v a i : i
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