Identifier: gri_33125008253409 (find matches)
Title: A hand-book for young painters
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 Clarke, Harriet Ludlow, d. 1866 Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853 Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904 Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 Scharf, George, 1788-1860 Cozens, John Robert, 1752-1797 Girtin, Thomas, 1775-1802
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ON POETKAIT. 293 arm of her chair. West stands behind his father, withhis palette and brushes in his hand, and the silencethat reigns over the whole is that of religious medita-tion ; which will probably end, according to the Quakercustom, in a prayer from the patriarch of the family.The picture is a very small one, the engraving from itbeing of the same size. It has no excellence of colour,but the masses of light and shadow are impressive andsimple, and I know not a more original illustration ofthe often-painted subject, the ages of man. Infancy,childhood, youth, middle life, and extreme age arebeautifully brought together in the quiet chamber ofthe painters wife. Had he been employed to paintthese five ages, he would perhaps have given himself agreat deal of trouble to produce a work that would havebeen classical, but, compared with this, common-place;while he has here succeeded in making a picture which,being intended only for himself, is for that reason apicture for the whole worl

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