The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . phitheatre. A dyke, once flooded, andramparts cut oft a strip of land between the two VIC AT COLES LIFE AND WORKS. rivers, and on this the town stands. In Saxon timesit was the cathedral city of the largest see in Britain,and this accounts for the spacious design of thechurch, although it is questionable whether any partof the Saxon edifice still exists. The Norman work inside, of which VicatColes sketch of a capi-tal is a good example,is very fine. With the meadowsand winding Thame forforeground, it makes apicturesque study, whichas here, in the han
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . phitheatre. A dyke, once flooded, andramparts cut oft a strip of land between the two VIC AT COLES LIFE AND WORKS. rivers, and on this the town stands. In Saxon timesit was the cathedral city of the largest see in Britain,and this accounts for the spacious design of thechurch, although it is questionable whether any partof the Saxon edifice still exists. The Norman work inside, of which VicatColes sketch of a capi-tal is a good example,is very fine. With the meadowsand winding Thame forforeground, it makes apicturesque study, whichas here, in the hands ofan artist who is notafraid to paint light,has all the elements ofa powerful picture. The CAPITAL AT DORCHESTER. grand old building is litup by soft rays, as it has been any day during manypast centuries, and is hallowed by the memories, whichcling around it, of hundreds of generations of men. Still more touching is the artists study of thegrave-yard attached to it. It represents a mistymorning of autumn. The light on the hoar-frost is. ST rDIES AT DO II CHESTER. 45 as fair and sweet as ever morning saw, and is paintedwith Indescribable brilliancy and tenderness. It is oneof those strange effects which take the mind out ofthe region of prosaic thoughts and lift it into therarer atmosphere of poetic visions. The morningbeams, which awake the living, fall with ineffablesoftness on the tnrf that covers the dead, bearinghints, shadowy and vague it may be, of immortality.
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