William TRichards; a brief outline of his life and art . s drab and grim and tasteless and respectable and the chance for 29 WILLIAM T. RICHARDS a brave youngster who took his fate in his own hands wasas one against thousands. The English tradition prevailed without the EngHshmotive. Dunlap has told us in his History of theArts of Design that the English of an earlier daylooked upon Art as beneath an aristocrat; in the Quakertown, painting was an unhallowed thing fit only forthe non-elect. But Mr. Richards had stuif in him that would haveovercome even greater discouragements. He was bornfor ac
William TRichards; a brief outline of his life and art . s drab and grim and tasteless and respectable and the chance for 29 WILLIAM T. RICHARDS a brave youngster who took his fate in his own hands wasas one against thousands. The English tradition prevailed without the EngHshmotive. Dunlap has told us in his History of theArts of Design that the English of an earlier daylooked upon Art as beneath an aristocrat; in the Quakertown, painting was an unhallowed thing fit only forthe non-elect. But Mr. Richards had stuif in him that would haveovercome even greater discouragements. He was bornfor achievement and, without the physical power forovercoming natural obstacles, he had the grit and thegenius for surmounting those of convention. He was acharacter, and if equipped and called, he would havegone his independent way, as Mungo Park did, into un-known Africa, or he was prepared to break down bar-riers of narrow habit nearer home. On June 7, 1858, a second son, Charles Matlack Richards, was born, and in that same spring the family 30 ts > PS.
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