The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . THE BARGE (1). in place of the owners, and this, with the name of theplace, serves for signature and description. Doubtless considerations of colour, with which thesebarges are usually gaily decorated, determined theirintroduction and place in the picture ; but there wrasfurther a sentiment, partly perhaps the human interest,which touched the artists mind. Lingering where theymoored their boats in the evening, he would make THE THAMES. 1 1 friends with the bargemen, and show by his talk aregard for their pursuits and manner of life. They arerough fel
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . THE BARGE (1). in place of the owners, and this, with the name of theplace, serves for signature and description. Doubtless considerations of colour, with which thesebarges are usually gaily decorated, determined theirintroduction and place in the picture ; but there wrasfurther a sentiment, partly perhaps the human interest,which touched the artists mind. Lingering where theymoored their boats in the evening, he would make THE THAMES. 1 1 friends with the bargemen, and show by his talk aregard for their pursuits and manner of life. They arerough fellows with rough tongues, but neither they, nor. THE BAKGE (2). any of their sort, could resist the charm of Vicat Colesgenial nature. His admiration of their barge wouldalone secure their good-will; but perhaps it was theabsence of anything like patronage in his way ofspeaking to them, and his genuine sympathy with theirdaily life, which moved them most. Anyhow, he was anexceptional favourite with them ; and one of the roughestof them, one day after he had passed by, expressed the 12 VI CAT COLES LIFE AND WORKS. general feeling about him in the words Ay, there goesa gentleman as good as God makes em ! The punt, again, the only other form of boat whichhe brings into his sketches of the Upper Thames, addsto, rather than detracts from, the sense of perfect restwhich pervades all his pictures of that region. Hurryand speed are foreign to the tranquil peace which reignsin those still reaches and backwaters. The punt suggests
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