. Art and artists of our time. THOMAS CARLYLE. FROM THE PICTURE BY JAMES McNEIL WHISTLER. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. CASSEUL & CO. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 259 development; but no doubt the atmosphere of the art-world in England as he found it on hisfirst coming there in 1855, when the so-called pre-Raphaelite revolution was in full career,stimulated and encouraged his native vein of individualism. Though he was not really oneof the group, yet he was of their kin, and was given a place with them in the public mindrather on the credit of his eccentricities in choice of subject and in executio
. Art and artists of our time. THOMAS CARLYLE. FROM THE PICTURE BY JAMES McNEIL WHISTLER. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. CASSEUL & CO. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 259 development; but no doubt the atmosphere of the art-world in England as he found it on hisfirst coming there in 1855, when the so-called pre-Raphaelite revolution was in full career,stimulated and encouraged his native vein of individualism. Though he was not really oneof the group, yet he was of their kin, and was given a place with them in the public mindrather on the credit of his eccentricities in choice of subject and in execution than from any. a hundred years ago. FROM THE ORIGNAL PAINTING BY E. L, HENRY. BY PERMISSION OF THE ARTIST. deeper relation of thought and feeling. His earliest exhibited pictures, The Last of Old Westminster and Westminster Bridge, in the Academy of 1863, The Golden Screen and The Little White Girl, with Old Battersea Bridge, in that of 1865, were received with astonished and even angry protest on the one side, and with a storm of enthusiastic welcome on the other. Up to that time no one in England had attempted to express on canvas the purely sensuous charm of color independent of subject, while the very tones in which AVliistler delighted, and the pleasure he found in suggestion over so-called completeness III 26o ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. were as opposed to English tradition as was tlie intangible nature of liis themes. Self-willedand self-contained, witli an in-born indifference to the opinions of others, Whistler kept ondeveloping his own ideas in his own Avaj% and with a healthy disposition
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