. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . but forthe grammarian, who can dissect the verse and designate its quantities. Art isnot alone for artists, but for man; and it is needless to add that man, in themost intelligent sense, knows where to place the preeminence. Let the artis-tic insight search deeply into Nature and human action, and it will find pict-ures in stones—certainly in that toil and labor which consecrate and rendereven religious, as well as beautiful, such simple subjects as engaged the art ofJean Francois Millet, who, while he took Nature
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . but forthe grammarian, who can dissect the verse and designate its quantities. Art isnot alone for artists, but for man; and it is needless to add that man, in themost intelligent sense, knows where to place the preeminence. Let the artis-tic insight search deeply into Nature and human action, and it will find pict-ures in stones—certainly in that toil and labor which consecrate and rendereven religious, as well as beautiful, such simple subjects as engaged the art ofJean Francois Millet, who, while he took Nature for his model, did not mis-take his model — if he ever employed one — for Nature. Our own life isequally teeming with similar subjects, perhaps less happily clothed withquaintness, but far more worthy of engaging the thought of the painter thanthat picturesque material which is often so cleverly and gracefully disposedin the pictures and workshops of inferior artists. The aesthetic should doubt-less have its place, but the deeper impulses should likewise manifest them-. <I mw Xh 0 z hin < S 43 WILL J J .1/ /.I QE. 177 selves iu art, if it is to have any permanent hold on the affections or on themind. Our older artists have not all lost sight of this, and in the work ofsome few of the younger men there is evidence of its hearty recognition. The honored name of William Page may fitly end the series of Americanpainters whose works are illustrated in this volume. For some months has been an invalid at his home on Staten Island ; and the brush whichso often has charmed us from our wearied selves, and been a torch to enkindleour nobler sentiments, is laid aside. Mi. Page was born in Albany, NewYork, on the 23d of January, 1811, and, when eight years old, he came toNew York City. After studying law and theology in succession, he enteredthe studio of the late Professor S. F. B. Morse, and in early manhood went toItaly. In Venice, in 1853, he became a disciple of Ti
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