The life and letters of Washington Allston . told of him as illustrating the efficacyof prayer. This might naturally have grown out of the incidentconnected with the purchase of Jacobs Dream, and the seem-ingly providential call of Lord Egremont when the artist was inso great need of money. We find no other basis for the story. Mrs. Jameson describes Jacobs Dream in these words :The subject is very sublimely and originally treated, with afeeling wholly distinct from the shadowy mysticism of Rem-brandt and the graceful simplicity of Raphael. Instead of aladder or steps, with a few angels, he ga
The life and letters of Washington Allston . told of him as illustrating the efficacyof prayer. This might naturally have grown out of the incidentconnected with the purchase of Jacobs Dream, and the seem-ingly providential call of Lord Egremont when the artist was inso great need of money. We find no other basis for the story. Mrs. Jameson describes Jacobs Dream in these words :The subject is very sublimely and originally treated, with afeeling wholly distinct from the shadowy mysticism of Rem-brandt and the graceful simplicity of Raphael. Instead of aladder or steps, with a few angels, he gave the idea of a gloriousvision, in which countless myriads of the heavenly host are seendissolving into light and distance, and immeasurable flights ofsteps rising, spreading above and beyond each other, till lost ininfinitude. At an artists dinner in London, at which were present someof the most distinguished painters of the time—Boyal Academi- Outline Sketch of Two Angels in Jacobs Dream. From the original in the Boston Museum of
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