. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . STUDY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN a Painting by Worthington WHttredge. 1>. 102. DANIEL HUNTINGTON. 103 difficult of all substances to represent on canvas. Very few painters have everreproduced it. As a painter grows older lie gets to think so much of i be im-portance of pearliuess, freshness, and delicacy in flesh, that he is apt fco loserichness, force, and warmth. He becomes satisfied with too little of the latterqualities. No matter how much love he has for them, he feels that, withoutpearliness, witho
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . STUDY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN a Painting by Worthington WHttredge. 1>. 102. DANIEL HUNTINGTON. 103 difficult of all substances to represent on canvas. Very few painters have everreproduced it. As a painter grows older lie gets to think so much of i be im-portance of pearliuess, freshness, and delicacy in flesh, that he is apt fco loserichness, force, and warmth. He becomes satisfied with too little of the latterqualities. No matter how much love he has for them, he feels that, withoutpearliness, without that delicate and luminous effect of lijdit in and shiningthrough a porcelain vase, the picture is nothing. Perhaps the film of the eyein old age makes things look a little yellower than they are. At any rate,whatever may be the cause, it is certain that pictures by older painters arevery often deficient in yellows. Reynoldss later portraits have this defect; sohave Trumbulls. But Titians are always incomparable. Nevertheless, thispearliness of flesh in a portrait cannot b
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