Identifier: earlyenglish00amer (find matches)
Title: Early English portraits and other paintings
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: F.A.G. Hood, Esq G.F.W. Hood, Esq
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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is referred to beingthe founder of the Wallace Collection, now the property of theBritish nation). Endymion, nude, is in sitting posture, and seen nearly at fulllength, his head bent over his arm, fast asleep. His head iswreathed in brown curls, his cheeks are rosy, and rosy morntinges his warm flesh, in a most successful arrangement oflights which characterizes the whole canvas. White and pur-ple-lavender draperies fold over his limbs, and his dog is asleepwith head against its masters knee. Diana approaches fromthe left, bust nude and encircled by flowing scarfs of whiteand rich blue, and lays a gentle hand upon the beautiful youthsshoulder. Her face is seen in profile as she bends towardand looks down upon him. It is impossible to look long uponthe canvas without realizing a sense of the quality, depth, truth,softness and substance of the flesh tones, their warmth, fresh-ness, coloring. From the sale of the collection of Sir T. Callis Dettera at Christies,London, J tine, 191!>J.
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No. oo JOHX LIXXELL English: 1792—1882 THE VALE OF AVOCA COUNTY WICKLOW,IRELAND Height, 3(5 inches; length, 50% inches Were scenes of such surpassing beauty on English shores,they would be a worlds wonder; if on the Mediterranean, theBaltic, or away in Egypt, tourists would flock to them in hun-dreds.—Sir Walter Scott. The beautiful vale celebrated in song by Moore stretches awayfrom the observers point of view, between mountains of ruggedgrandeur under clouds of opalescent mist. Sunlight illuminessturdy peaks and velvet slopes, and spots the valley with head-land shadows, the light itself though bright yet subdued inthe soft air. Through the valley winds a narrow blue stream,and in the foreground a fair and barefooted colleen is ridingtoward it on a bridleless donkey, knitting while she rides, andat the moment engaged in chaff with a goatherd resting on abank, his flock around him. To right and left in the middledistance various figures of the countryside are to be seen onthe moi

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