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. Art and artists of our time . ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 26r as, in all his portraits, a distinct and individual character, which extends even to the dress ofhis sitter. Thus, in the portrait of then crown-princess, now the ex-empress Victoria, the. THE EX-EMPRESS VICTORIA. FROM THE PICTURE BY HEINRICH VON ANGELI. clumsy and ill-arranged costume is inevitably English or German, but we find so much toattract us in the intelligent face, where sweetness and strength are so well commingled, that 262 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. we forget to dwell upon these inartistic details. In tlie long lis
. Art and artists of our time . ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 26r as, in all his portraits, a distinct and individual character, which extends even to the dress ofhis sitter. Thus, in the portrait of then crown-princess, now the ex-empress Victoria, the. THE EX-EMPRESS VICTORIA. FROM THE PICTURE BY HEINRICH VON ANGELI. clumsy and ill-arranged costume is inevitably English or German, but we find so much toattract us in the intelligent face, where sweetness and strength are so well commingled, that 262 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. we forget to dwell upon these inartistic details. In tlie long list of portraits of notablespainted by Angeli, this of the Crown-princess Victoria is spoken of as holding the highestplace, and certainly the events of the last few years have made it one of the most interest-ing to admirers of noble womanhood, especially when the light that streams from theircharacter illumines the high places of the world, affording a welcome relief to the pettinessof their surroundings. In the portrait of the princess Henry of the Netherlands, there ismore elegance, both in the subject itself, and in the treatment, but, in truth, this quality,which exists in Angelis mind, and for which he has therefore a remarkably clear perce
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