. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. to natureand consistency with genuine art; that is, while he correctly depietsnature in his landscapes, he ennobles the details of the scener
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. to natureand consistency with genuine art; that is, while he correctly depietsnature in his landscapes, he ennobles the details of the scenery bythe magic touches of his pencil. A very fine specimen of his skillin this direction, o?i the following page, forms the subject of the ?/].(;),— RAIN, A PAINTING BY VICAT COLK. ? accompanying engraving of his * Summer Rain, in which the char-acteristicp of his geniup are preserved. Though it does not attemptto iini>rove niiture, the heholder is led to admire the g<!iiiu8dirtplayed in the distribution of liglit, shade and perspective, and itsgrarefuhieas throughout. While he is evidently fully alive to Ihe the summer foliage sleeping in the evening shadow, and the animalcreation resting lazily in the drowsy iiaze of dreamy quiet. Mr,Cole is described as emphatically manly and kindly in his pernonand life. The portrait which is presented elsewhere indicates thepossession of those sterling qualities that make men beloved ae well. SUMMER RAIN, the Painting by Vicut Cole, , Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1873. poetic, wherever it may be found in nature, his genius seems tohave the fullest play when he is engaged in painting smooth water, as famous. He has painted many meritorious pictures already, andas he is still young, his fair fame promises to increase. SIR EDWIN LANDSEER. S A PAINTER of animals, Sir Edwin Landsecr was justly dis-tinguished. He was born in London, in 1803. His father wasan engraver, and Edwin in his childhood manifested such afondness f
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