The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . MEXICAN POTTERY. SYMBOLIC DESIGNS. made by Mme. Varcollier, and the third byBerenger; the copyists having been paid from£20 to £25, for each of the works. Thevogue for the works of certain artists hasattained such a degree of strength, that eventhe works of living painters are now counter-feited. Recently, a series of about twentypictures, all bogus, and signed with the namesof three living painters, were seized at themoment that they were being shipped to theUnited States by a Parisian picture dealer, whois very well known in the trade. It is a
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . MEXICAN POTTERY. SYMBOLIC DESIGNS. made by Mme. Varcollier, and the third byBerenger; the copyists having been paid from£20 to £25, for each of the works. Thevogue for the works of certain artists hasattained such a degree of strength, that eventhe works of living painters are now counter-feited. Recently, a series of about twentypictures, all bogus, and signed with the namesof three living painters, were seized at themoment that they were being shipped to theUnited States by a Parisian picture dealer, whois very well known in the trade. It is a matter of commonknowledge that some twentyyears ago, while the Frenchschool of 1830 was most infavour among buyers, theBritish markets were floodedwith false pictures, bearingthe signatures of Corot, Diaz,Daubigny, Dupre, Troybn,Rousseau, etc. M. Franchestates that the majority of thedealers in these wares, then had in their em-ployment a group of copyists, some of whomwere at work in the forest of Fontainebleau,and others in their studios i
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